Depression: An Introduction

by Barbara Dowds

This book attempts to do justice to the depth and complexity of depression - as to its causes and its treatment in psychotherapy. It challenges the reductive medical view of depression as a serotonin deficiency resulting in a collection of undesirable symptoms to be dispatched with antidepressants or CBT exercises. Rather, it locates the origins of depression in childhood adversity, primarily caused by unattuned, cold, critical, hostile or abusive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912691795
• ISBN13: 9781912691791
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"