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Machine generated contents note: pt. I THEORETICAL EXPLORATION OF THE ORIGINS, MAINTENANCE, AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF DEPRESSION -- 1. Psychodynamic Interpretations of the Origin of Depression -- Depressive Roots: Attachment, Mirroring, and Transformative Experiences -- Unarticulated Loss: Present Absence, Absent Presence -- 2. Identity Formation: Subjectivity Within the Shadow of Darkness -- Internalized Relational Schemas: The Self as Its Own Object -- Alienation: The Self as Other -- 3. Language as Trauma -- A Fatal Threat: The Rupture in Meaningful Communication -- 4. Maintenance of Depression -- Depression as the Primary Object: Cynicism Is Safe, Hope Can Be Devastating -- Defense Mechanisms -- 5. Disconnection: Social Ruptures -- Relationships Define Us -- Lacking Agency: When Effort Is Futile -- Gender Differences and the Manifestations of Depression -- pt. II CASE STUDIES: SUBJECTIVE ACCOUNTS OF DEPRESSION -- 6. Interpretative Phenomenology and Narrative Research -- 7. Richard -- Bullying and Becoming the Other: "I Just Didn't Have that Social Ability" -- Existential Meaninglessness and Failures of Symbolization: "It's Unsolvable" and "This Is Probably Going to be My Life" -- Family Life, Disconnections, and the Burden of Sharing: "It's Just a Bunch of Notes ... Floating Around" -- Depression and the Necessity for Disclosure: "If I Tell Someone My Life Story, that Definitely Is Part of It" -- Making Peace and Positive Growth: "I Learned How to Accept Myself and I like the Person I am Now" -- 8. Judy -- The Chaotic Climate of Childhood: "Do You Love Me?" "Are You Mad at Me?" -- The Experience of Depression: "On My Bad Days ... It's Like Fallin' into a Dark Cave" -- Family Secrets and Exclusion of the Other: "You Told them but Not Me. Why?" -- Navigating the Emotional World: "My Whole Family Is Alcoholic" -- The Loss of Ted: "I am Now My Husband's Voice, and I Will Continue Tellin' My Husband's Story" -- Concluding Thoughts: "There Is a Reason Why I'm on this Specific Path" -- 9. Lena -- Theory of Origins: "I Know that this Feeling I Have, it ... Goes Back to ... My Childhood" -- Interpersonal Conflicts and Family Dynamics: "We all ... Verbally Attack Each Other" -- Shame and Worthlessness, Escape and Repetition: "I Feel Guilty ... all the Time, Like Ashamed" -- Alienation and Misrecognition: "I was Convinced that I was this Monster" -- Concluding Thoughts: "I Think Maybe I Did Go Through a Lot" -- 10. Steve -- The Idealized and Feared Father: "The Most Important Person in the Whole World" -- Inadequacy, Worthlessness, and the Denigrated Self: "Why are You Just Not as Good as Everyone Else?" -- Anxiety and Fear: "I was Always Waiting for Something Bad to Happen" -- Alcoholism: "I'm Convinced that My Need to Escape the Worthless Feelings that I Had about Myself are Directly Related to My Alcoholism" -- Medicalization of Symptoms: "It was Like Somebody Had Pulled up a Shade and All the Sudden, I Could See the World" -- Concluding Thoughts -- 11. Alexa -- A Break with Reality and the Loss of Meaning: "I was Living in a World that I Didn't Understand" -- Social Disconnection: "I was an Assignment to them ... and It was their Job to be Nice to Me" -- Annihilation and Persecutory States: "They're Trying to Kill Me and Get My Soul" -- Emotional Turmoil, Self-Denigration, and Suicidality: "I Can't Explain the Ttortures that I have" -- Concluding Thoughts. |
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