Complex Depression

The Role of Personality Dynamics and Social Ecology

Golan Shahar

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English

American Psychological Association
05 December 2023

Sociology: death & dying; Abnormal psychology; Clinical psychology

In this empirical yet deeply humanistic work, Golan Shahar investigates the dynamic relationship between personality and social factors in complex depression, identifying avenues for research and offering hope for sufferers and treatment providers.

Shahar synthesizes research and clinical wisdom to enhance our understanding of complex depression, a mental illness defined by its chronicity, heterogeneity, and serious consequences including suicide. He focuses on Melanie Klein’s object relations theory and depressive position, reconceptualizing both from a transtheoretical perspective, with an emphasis on four key factors: demeaning affect; affect regulation; maladaptive schemas and scripts; and a time axis consisting of past, current, and projected future experiences. Shahar also explores how individuals externalize self-critical feelings, in turn creating a malignant social environment and a vicious cycle of self-recrimination. To explain this toxic relationship, Shahar presents ecodynamics, a novel theory examining relationship patterns between the self and their social contexts.

The book offers tools and procedures for assessing complex depression and guidelines for integrative psychotherapy. Case examples, including the author’s profound personal investigation into his stepfather’s suicide, vividly demonstrate the causes and consequences of complex depression.

By: Golan Shahar
Imprint: American Psychological Association
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781433836077
ISBN 10: 1433836076
Pages: 249
Publication Date: 05 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Thomas Joiner An Introduction to the Personality and Social Dynamics of Complex Depression Acknowledgments Part I. Depression and Personality Chapter 1. The Complications of Depression Chapter 2. The Role of Personality in Complex Depression Part II. Psychodynamics and Ecodynamics Chapter 3. Reformulating Klein’s Object Relations Theory and the Depressive Position Chapter 4. Human Ecology and Development Within Social Contexts: The Theory of Ecodynamics Part III. The Ecodynamics of Complex Depression Chapter 5. Applying the Reformulated Depressive Position and Ecodynamics to Complex Depression Chapter 6. Suicidal Depression: A Case Study of Complex Depression’s Most Severe Consequence Chapter 7. Practical Implications for Assessment: Evaluating Complex Depression Via the Reformulated Depressive Position and Ecodynamics Chapter 8. Practical Implications for Psychotherapy: Specific Interventions for Treating Complex Depression References Index About the Author

Golan Shahar, PhD, is professor of clinical-health psychology, Zlotovsky chair of neuropsychology, and adjunct professor of public health at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev where he also heads the Stress, Self & Health (STREALTH) research lab. He is also adjunct professor of child study and adult psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. Prof. Shahar’s research focuses on the links between stress, depression and suicidality, and psychosomatics. He authored Erosion: The Psychopathology of Self-Criticism. Professor Shahar is also internationally known as a leading clinical theorist and practitioner, advancing an integrative framework for assessment and psychotherapy in complex psychopathological and psychosomatic conditions. Visit his ResearchGate page.