Complex Depression

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. 

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