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Additional authors

1. Depue, Richard A.

Description

1. xxi, 446 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. Part I: provides a conceptual framework for the many issues and variables inherent in a comprehensive theory of human disorders -- Part II: provides a framework for clinical distinctions in the depressive disorders which may prove meaningful in the investigation of more specific stress-biology pathways -- Part III: provides a framework from several different vantage points for examining biologic variables, found to be relevant to the depressive disorders -- Part IV: provides the latest statements on two issues by prominent researchers -- Part V: provides two creative discussions on the manner in which Stress-Biology interactions may be conceptualized and studied.

Series statement

1. Personality and psychopathology

Uniform title

1. Personality and psychopathology

Subject

1. Depression, Mental > Physiological aspects
2. Stress (Psychology)
3. Stress (Physiology)
4. Depression > psychology
5. Stress, Psychological
6. Depression, Mental > Physiological aspects
7. Depression
8. Psychobiologie
9. Stress

Contents

1. The psychobiology of human disease : implications for conceptualizing the depressive disorders -- The unipolar-bipolar distinction in the depressive disorders : implications for stress-onset interaction -- Neurotic depression : the endogenous-neurotic distinction -- Neurotic depression : the concept of anxious depression -- The conceptualization and measurement of stressful life events : an overview of the issues -- Coping behavior and stress-induced behavioral depression : studies of the role of brain catecholamines -- Stress and noradrenergic function in depression -- Free cortisol as a peripheral index of central vulnerability to major forms of polar depressive disorders : examining stress-biology interactions in subsyndromal high-risk person -- Genetic influences on catecholamine metabolism -- Neurophysiological reactivity, stimulus intensity modulation and the depressive disorders -- Recent life events in the development of the depressive disorders -- The social etiology of depression London studies -- Reinforcement and depression -- Vulnerable self-esteem as a predisposing factor in depressive disorders -- Learned helplessness, stress, and the depressive disorders -- A selective review of cognitive and behavioral factors involved in the regulation of stress -- Advantages of a behavior-genetic approach to investigating stress in the depressive disorders -- A biobehavioral approach to depression.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographies and index.