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Depression As a Psychoanalytic Problem
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- 2012
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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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- 2012
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7618-6041-9
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7618-6042-6
- Publisher
- Hamilton Books, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 134
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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
- References No access Pages 126 - 134





