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Depression As a Psychoanalytic Problem
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2012
Summary
Over the past few decades, psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry have been steadily stepping back from a key role in the understanding and treatment of depressive disorders. This book investigates the basis for such retreat by delving into the history of medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature. It unveils the social motives for the overwhelming consensus currently gathered by the biomedical model of depression. The book then moves on to discuss at depth psychoanalytic literature on depression and reveals how it possesses an enormous explanatory power for depression symptoms. This approach allows the author to offer readers a comprehensive, dynamically-oriented model of symptom formation in depression.
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Edition
1/2012
Copyright Year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-6041-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-6042-6
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
134
Product Type
Monograph
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TABLE OF CONTENTS No access
Prefatory Note No access
Chapter One: Sadness and Black Bile No access
Chapter Two: Sadness, Error and Sin No access
Chapter Three: Sadness and Human Societies No access
Chapter Four: Looking through a Distortive Mirror: Descriptive Psychopathology of Depression from a Psychoanalytic Perspective No access
Chapter Five: Encountering Depression in the Context of Mental Health Services: The Contribution from Psychoanalytic Literature No access
Chapter Six: A Model of the Process of Formation of Depressive Symptoms No access
Chapter Seven: Epistemological Observations No access
