1st Edition

Social Origins of Depression A study of psychiatric disorder in women

Edited By George W. Brown, Tirril Harris Copyright 1978
416 Pages
by Routledge

414 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in... Read more
I: Introduction; 1: Sociology and the Aetiology of Depression; 2: Depression; 3: Research Design; II: The Provoking Agents; 4: Measurement of Life-Events; 5: Meaning; 6: Life-Events and Depression; 7: The Importance of Events; 8: Difficulties; 9: Events and Difficulties; 10: Social Class, Provoking Agents, and Depression; III: Vulnerability Factors; 11: Vulnerability; 12: Borderline and Chronic Conditions; IV: Symptom-Formation Factors; 13: Severity of Depression; 14: Psychotic and Neurotic Depression and the Existence of Endogenous Depression; V: Interpretation and Conclusions; 15: Depression and Loss; 16: A Model of Depression; 17: Summary and Conclusions

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George W. Brown, Tirril Harris