Barbara Dowds

Depression and the Erosion of the Self in Late Modernity (eBook, PDF)

The Lesson of Icarus

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Produktbeschreibung

This challenging book thus understands depression as a wise response to an unliveable situation. It can teach us what is wrong with our lives and what we must learn in order to go beyond symptom relief and reconnect to our most fundamental needs, relational, existential and spiritual.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429840623
• Artikelnr.: 54000475

Autorenporträt

Barbara Dowds had a first career in science as a researcher at the University of California and TCD, and later as a senior lecturer in molecular genetics at Maynooth University, Ireland. She completed her therapy training in 2002, and then began to work as a humanistic and integrative psychotherapist. Barbara taught on various psychotherapy trainings between 2003 and 2014, and was on the editorial board of Eisteach, the journal of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, for seven years. She is the author of Beyond the Frustrated Self as well as numerous articles. Barbara is currently in private practice as a therapist and supervisor and presents postgraduate training workshops.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: The Self: Experience and Development
Chapter One: The experience of depressive breakdown: the role of loss and
rejection
Chapter Two: The many ways of not being true to yourself
Chapter Three: Depression as consequence and cause of somatic conditions
Chapter Four: Childhood development: what does it take to build a self?
Part II: The Science of Depression
Chapter Five: Low mood as an appropriate adaptive response: an evolutionary
perspective
Chapter Six: What science can tell us about depression: neuroscience,
genetics and epigenetics; gut microbiota
Part III: A Depressive Society? The Impact on the Self, Relationships and
Meaning
Chapter Seven: A non-facilitating environment?: the role of contemporary
society and culture
Chapter Eight: Empty (narcissistic), false or fragmented: disorders of the
self in later modernity,
Chapter Nine: The centrality of relationships: anxiety and the loss of
connection
Chapter Ten: Depression and Meaninglessness: the loss of connecting and
experiencing
Conclusions
Chapter Eleven: Fundamental human needs: a conclusion