| Description |
1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Series |
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Psychopathological Association ; 42d, 1952 |
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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Psychopathological Association ; 42d, 1952.
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| Summary |
"The most outstanding problems of psychopathology today are anxiety and depression. These emotional states and their derivatives also constitute the chief problems of everyday living in our time. The problem of anxiety was taken up in a symposium several years ago. The present symposium is devoted to depression. It is encouraging to note that studies of depression are no longer limited to the phenomenologic approach. A cataloging of the various disciplines represented in this symposium contains the following: genetics, clinical psychiatry, psychodynamics, child psychiatry, anthropology, physiology, endocrinology, biochemistry, biometrics, geriatrics, and hospital administration. We are still far from an understanding of the causes of depression. This is evidenced by the many different "causal" factors (genetic, biochemical, psychodynamic, etc.) which are advanced as the etiologic mechanisms in depression. However, we have achieved a better dynamic understanding of the depressive states, which should not be confused with their etiology. The joint attack along psychologic, psychodynamic, physiologic, biochemical, and developmental lines on the investigation of depression is bound to make progress, if in no other way, at least in shedding light in the obscure interstitial areas that lie between the disciplines"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO |
| Subject |
Depression, Mental.
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Depression
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Depressive Disorder
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Depression, Mental
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zubin, Joseph, 1900-1990.
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