Productive & Unprod Depression - Softcover

Productive and unproductive depression. Success or failure of a vital process.

Originalbroschur. Zustand: Gut. XVIII, 275 S. Beilage: Gruß der Auorin. - Productive and Unproductive Depression looks at the subject and treatment of depression in a new way. Emmy Gut suggests that getting depressed is universal genetic equipment for coping with specific problems, just as anger or grieving helps us to cope with other problems. The model of normal depression she proposes differentiates being depressed from all other painful affects, not by symptoms but on the basis of intrapsychic cause, personal meaning, and the outcome of the process. A period of being depressed can be productive or unproductive: when productive it leads to improved understanding and coping, to maturation, creativity, or survival; when unproductive, it maintains the status quo, causes deterioration, or death. Whether the outcome is productive or unproductive depends mainly on developmental and cultural factors. The author gives a detailed account of personality patterns likely to lead to a productive or to an unproductive outcome, and shows how a psychotherapeutic approach can be used, professionally or informally, in helping another person through a period of depression. ISBN 9780415034661 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Artikel-Nr. 1156387

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