Depression : The Evolution of Powerlessness (Hardcover)

Part I: Types History, Diagnoses, Epidemiology, and Personality 1 Introduction: Controversies Old and New 2 Depression: Types and Distinctions 3 Epidemiology, Relapse, and Long-term Outcome 4 Personality, Personality Disorder, and Depression Part II: Concepts The Evolution of Mental Mechanisms and the Needs for Power, Belonging, and Self-value 5 The Evolution of Mental Mechanisms 6 The Evolution of Social Power and its Role in Depression 7 Notes on the Evolution of the Self 8 Patterns of Depressive Self-organisation: Shame, Guilt, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Anger, and Envy Part III: Past and Current Theories 9 Psychoanalytic Theories of Depression: The Early Schools 10 Depression as Thwarted Needs 11 Archetypes, Biosocial Goals, Mentalities, and Depressive 12 Aspirations, Incentives, and Hopelessness 13 Cognitive Theories of Depression 14 Behavioural Theories of Depression 15 Life Events, Interpersonal Theories, and the Family 16 Conclusions: Complexities, Therapies, and Loose Ends