Depression : A Contemporary Introduction (Paperback)

1.Depression as a common, polymorphic, heterogeneous disease with a tendency to chronicity: Introductory remarks? 2.Depression as a signature of our time? 3.Depression and trauma?long a neglected topic in both clinical and extraclinical psychoanalytic research? 4.“As far back as I can remember, I was always depressed ...” From a psychoanalysis with a chronic depressed, traumatized patient? 5.Depression in the life span of depressed individuals?Some considerations concerning specific challenges in psychoanalytic treatments? 6.Psychoanalytic depression research in interdisciplinary exchange: Some few remarks? 7.Summary and outlook