Depression by Gilbert, Paul -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Introduction to the Classic Edition PART I Types: history, diagnoses, epidemiology, and personality

1 Introduction: controversies old and new

Outline Historical and philosophical influences The search for disease entities in psychiatry Modern approaches to classification Recent perspectives on classification Culture Summary Concluding comments

2 Depression: types and distinctions

Types of depression Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) Postnatal depression Depression in children Recent approaches to classification and understanding types Summary Concluding comments

3 Epidemiology, relapse, and long-term outcome

Epidemiology: some issues Depression Relapse Long-term follow-up Suicide Summary Concluding comments

4 Personality, personality disorder, and depression

Background issues Personality and depression Dependency and achievement Interpersonal theories Personality disorder A psychological approach to personality disorders Summary Concluding comments

5 The evolution of mental mechanisms

Evolution: a key to our way of being The sociobiological revolution Psychobiological response routines and pattern generation The self-defense—protect system The safety system Affects Ethology The psychological perspective Response rules and meaning-making systems: biosocial goals and social mentalities Depression Summary Concluding comments

6 The evolution of social power and its role in depression

Introduction The importance and prevalence of social ranking Ingroup—outgroup The origins of ranking: clues to the evolution of depression? Group living and the strategies of ingroup ranking The internal referee The biology of involuntary subordinate status and the loss of control Rank and the issue of the outsider Voluntary and involuntary submitting/yielding Summary Concluding comments

7 Notes on the evolution of the self

The hedonic mode: hierarchy and networks Ranking and networking via attractiveness; the switch to the hedonic social structure Attention structure Social investment The self Depression, self-esteem, and social comparison The symbolising, inner sense of self Social roles Depression and SAHP Summary Concluding comments

Shame Social anxiety Assertiveness Anger Envy The self Summary Concluding comments

PART III Past and current theories

9 Psychoanalytic theories of depression: the early schools

Historical background The influence of Freud Psychosexual development Freud and depression Object relations theory The role of fantasy Summary Concluding comments

10 Depression as thwarted needs

Attachment theory Attachment theory and depression Self psychology Fragmentation Self psychology and depression An evolutionary perspective Kohut and Bowlby compared Historical evidence Summary Concluding comments

11 Archetypes, biosocial goals, mentalities, and depressive themes

Archetypes Biosocial goals and mentality theory Patterns and depressive themes Summary Concluding comments

12 Aspirations, incentives, and hopelessness

Ego analytic Dominant other, dominant goal Incentive disengagement theory Learned helplessness and hopelessness Summary Concluding comments

13 Cognitive theories of depression

Automatic thoughts Rules, assumptions, and attitudes Self–other schema Basic theory and assumptions of the cognitive model Some controversies of the cognitive model Summary Concluding comments

14 Behavioural theories of depression

Wolne's conditioned anxiety model of depression Classical conditioning, selfobjects, and fragmentation Self-control model of depression Loss of reinforcer effectiveness Ferster's model Lewinsohn's social reinforcement theory Social skills and/or status enhancement Summary Concluding comments

15 Life events, interpersonal theories, and the family

Introduction Life events Social support The interpersonal approach to depression Marriage and the family Overview Summary Concluding comments

16 Conclusions: complexities, therapies, and loose ends

Introduction Flipping in and out of states Power and belonging Culture Prevention

References Author index Subject index Appendices

Appendix A: Measurement of depression Appendix B: The theory and styles of personal adjustment Appendix C: Endogenous and neurotic depression Appendix D: Culture and change