Depression As a Psychoanalytic Problem

Informationen zum Autor By Paolo Azzone Klappentext 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 historical and philosophical basis for such retreat and offer readers a comprehensive, dynamically-oriented model of symptom formation in depression. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prefatory NoteAcknowledgmentsPart I: Historical Facts: Depression and Other Socially Shared Representations of Pain in Western CivilizationChapter One: Sadness and Black Bile Chapter Two: Sadness, Error and SinChapter Three: Sadness and Human Societies Part II: Clinical FactsChapter Four: Looking through a Distortive Mirror: Descriptive Psychopathology of Depression from a Psychoanalytic PerspectiveChapter Five: Encountering Depression in the Context of Mental Health Services: The Contribution from Psychoanalytic LiteraturePart III: The ModelChapter Six: A Model of the Process of Formation of Depressive SymptomsChapter Seven: Epistemological ObservationsReferences

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• Authors: Paolo Azzone, Azzone Paolo
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2012
• EAN: 9780761860419
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-6041-9
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, MEDICAL / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, Psychology: emotions, Abnormal psychology, Mental health services, Depression;Mental Illness;Psychoanalysis;Psychology