Complex depression : the role of personality dynamics and social ecology / Golan Shahar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shahar, Golan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality.

Depression, Mental.

Social ecology.

Depression.

Social Environment.

Psychotherapy.

Medical Subjects:

Depression.

Personality.

Social Environment.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages)).

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2024]

Summary:

"This book elucidates how personality processes, particularly affect and its regulation juxtaposed against mental representations of self with others, predispose individuals to shape a social context that ultimately not only leads to depression but also complicates it considerably. The author utilizes the social-cognitive nomenclature for the purpose of reformulating key psychoanalytic theories, primarily object relations theory, and then builds on this reformulation to explain how individuals' mental maps lead to the very interpersonal environment that is maladaptive. The book is composed of three parts. Part one presents the various complications of depression and describes the role of personality, broadly defined, in depression. Part two construes personality in terms of newly developed reformulated object relations theory (RORT) and rewrites Melanie Klein's depressive position on the basis of this reformulation. It describes a conceptual position concerning the social context is presented and patterns of person-context transactions, culminating in the ecodynamics of depression. Although there are eight ecodynamic patterns, the book focuses primarily on three that are specifically useful for understanding complex depression: action, immersion, and extraction. Part three describes the ecodynamics of complex depression in depth. First, the RORT and the ecodynamics theory are applied to nearly all manifestations of complex depression. Then, special attention is given to suicidal depression, complex depression's most severe manifestation. Finally, it discusses practical implications of this theoretical position, touching on clinical assessment and psychotherapy. The book ends with a brief Epilogue that reflects on the theory advanced here and summarizes future research and clinical directions." -- Preface (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

An introduction to the personality and social dynamics of complex depression

I. Depression and personality

The complications of depression

The role of personality in complex depression

II. Psychodynamics and ecodynamics

Reformulating object relations theory and the depressive position

Human ecology and development within social contexts: Ecodynamics theory

III. The ecodynamics of complex depression

Applying the reformulated depressive position and ecodynamics to complex depression

Suicidal depression: A case study of complex depression's most severe consequence

Practical implications for assessment: Evaluating complex depression through the reformulated depressive position and ecodynamics

Practical implications for psychotherapy: Specific interventions for treating complex depression

Epilogue: Afterthoughts and looking to the future

References

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2024.

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Other Format:

Print version: Complex depression

ISBN:

1433836076

9781433836077

1433836084

9781433836084

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