Complex Depression

The Role of Personality Dynamics and Social Ecology
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4338-3607-7
Verlag: American Psychological Association

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 374 g

Golan Shahar argues that the dynamic relationship between personality and social factors, which he terms “ecodynamics,” is the root cause of complex depression and leads to severe consequences, including suicide.
 
Dr. Shahar examines foundational psychoanalytic research on depression, particularly Melanie Klein's object relation theory and her depressive position. He elaborates upon these concepts with a transtheoretical lens that accounts for key factors, including affect (primarily self-criticism); affect regulation; schemas and scripts that reinforce self-criticism; projections of the self into the future; and externalization of depressive feelings that creates a vicious cycle.
 
Shahar explores specific ecodynamic patterns that lead to complication like chronicity, heterogeneity, comorbidity with other disorders, health and legal problems, and suicidality. Methods and guidelines for assessing and treating depression that account for ecodynamic factors are provided, including three new measures developed by Shahar for this book. Case examples help readers understand the causes and consequences of complex depression, including Shahar’s deeply personal investigation of his stepfather’s suicide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shahar, Golan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Thomas Joiner
An Introduction to the Personality and Social Dynamics of Complex Depression
Acknowledgments
Part I. Depression and Personality
Chapter 1. The Complications of Depression
Chapter 2. The Role of Personality in Complex Depression
Part II. Psychodynamics and Ecodynamics
Chapter 3. Reformulating Klein’s Object Relations Theory and the Depressive Position
Chapter 4. Human Ecology and Development Within Social Contexts: The Theory of Ecodynamics
Part III. The Ecodynamics of Complex Depression
Chapter 5. Applying the Reformulated Depressive Position and Ecodynamics to Complex Depression
Chapter 6. Suicidal Depression: A Case Study of Complex Depression’s Most Severe Consequence
Chapter 7. Practical Implications for Assessment: Evaluating Complex Depression Via the Reformulated Depressive Position and Ecodynamics
Chapter 8. Practical Implications for Psychotherapy: Specific Interventions for Treating Complex Depression
References
Index
About the Author