Wu Wei, Negativity, and Depression The Principle of Non-Trying in the Practice of Pastoral Care

• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Problem of Negativity
• Arguments
• Limitations
• Contribution to Pastoral Care
• Organization of the Book
• Chapter 1. Overview of the Problem of Depression
• Narratives
• The Meaning of Depression
• Epidemiology
• History of the Studies of Depression
• Chapter 2. Psychosocial and Biological Theories of Depression
• Life Events and Stressors
• Stressors and Interpretation
• Synapses and CNS Neurotransmitters
• Sleep Patterns and Depression
• Brain Imaging and Depression
• Psychotropic Medications
• Chapter 3. Overview of Methods of Pastoral Intervention and Wu Wei
• History of Pastoral Care Approaches to Melancholy
• Current Pastoral Care approaches to Depression
• Feminist Pastoral Care
• Chapter 4. Negativity and Trying
• Self-Regulatory Perseveration Theory
• Depression and Negativity
• Negativity and Self-Evaluation
• Self-Evaluaiton and Self-Regulation
• Chapter 5. Self-Regulatory Perseveration and the Downward Spiral
• Defining Self-Regulatory Perseveration
• Terror Management Theory: The Motive for Perseveration
• The Downward Spiral
• Analysis
• Chapter 6. Wu Wei
• Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu
• Taoist Philosophy
• The Concept of Wu Wei
• Chapter 7. Wu Wei, Trying, and Non-Trying
• The Two Selves
• The Prereductive Self
• The Reductive Self
• The Postreductive Self
• Emptiness
• Chapter 8. Wu Wei and the Sustaining Ministry of Pastoral Care
• Sustaining Ministry
• Wu Wei and the Cycle of Depression
• Wu Wei and the Care of the Soul
• Chapter 9. Wu Wei and the Practice of Pastoral Care
• Addressing the Context
• Walking with Depressed Individuals
• Encouraging Trust
• Expanding the Meaning of Normative
• One-to-One
• Chapter 10. Wu Wei and the Theology of Pastoral Care
• Nonbeing
• Nonbeing and Pastoral Theology
• Questions on Moral Implications
• Summary: Wu Wei, Depression, and Pastoral Care
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Reference Notes IncludedContents
• Foreword (Ann Belford Ulanov)
• Preface
• Introduction
• Problem of Negativity
• Arguments
• Limitations
• Contribution to Pastoral Care
• Organization of the Book
• Chapter 1. Overview of the Problem of Depression
• Narratives
• The Meaning of Depression
• Epidemiology
• History of the Studies of Depression
• Chapter 2. Psychosocial and Biological Theories of Depression
• Life Events and Stressors
• Stressors and Interpretation
• Synapses and CNS Neurotransmitters
• Sleep Patterns and Depression
• Brain Imaging and Depression
• Psychotropic Medications
• Chapter 3. Overview of Methods of Pastoral Intervention and Wu Wei
• History of Pastoral Care Approaches to Melancholy
• Current Pastoral Care approaches to Depression
• Feminist Pastoral Care
• Chapter 4. Negativity and Trying
• Self-Regulatory Perseveration Theory
• Depression and Negativity
• Negativity and Self-Evaluation
• Self-Evaluaiton and Self-Regulation
• Chapter 5. Self-Regulatory Perseveration and the Downward Spiral
• Defining Self-Regulatory Perseveration
• Terror Management Theory: The Motive for Perseveration
• The Downward Spiral
• Analysis
• Chapter 6. Wu Wei
• Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu
• Taoist Philosophy
• The Concept of Wu Wei
• Chapter 7. Wu Wei, Trying, and Non-Trying
• The Two Selves
• The Prereductive Self
• The Reductive Self
• The Postreductive Self
• Emptiness
• Chapter 8. Wu Wei and the Sustaining Ministry of Pastoral Care
• Sustaining Ministry
• Wu Wei and the Cycle of Depression
• Wu Wei and the Care of the Soul
• Chapter 9. Wu Wei and the Practice of Pastoral Care
• Addressing the Context
• Walking with Depressed Individuals
• Encouraging Trust
• Expanding the Meaning of Normative
• One-to-One <

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