Depression as a psychoanalytic problem
"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 depr…
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- Full title :Depression as a psychoanalytic problem / Paolo Azzone.
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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."--Publisher's description.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University Press of America
- Place of Publication:Lanham, Md
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 134 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780761860419, 076186041X
- oclc:ocn816563937
- LC Classification:RC537
- Dewey Decimal:616.85270651
Table of Contents
Historical Facts: Depression and Other Socially Shared Representations of Pain in Western Civilization -- Sadness and Black Bile -- Sadness, Error and Sin -- Sadness and Human Societies -- Clinical Facts -- Looking through a Distortive Mirror : Descriptive Psychopathology of Depression from a Psychoanalytic Perspective -- Encountering Depression in the Context of Mental Health Services : The Contribution from Psychoanalytic Literature -- The Model -- A Model of the Process of Formation of Depressive Symptoms -- Epistemological Observations.
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