Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction to Classic Edition Part 1: 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 2: 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 Self 8. Patterns of Depressive Self-organisation: Shame, Guilt, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Anger and Envy Part 3: Past and Current Theories 9. Psychoanalytic Theories of Depression: The Early Schools 10. Depression as Thwarted Needs 11. Archetypes, Biosocial Goals, Mentalities and Depressive Themes 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 References Index Appendices