This is the final book in a series that explores how persistent depression (a.k.a. dysthymia, dysthymic disorder, neurotic depression, chronic depression) can rise, survive, and thrive. Decoding chronic depression requires realizing psychological symptoms can be an orchestration of physiology, emotions, and behavior that guard against internal and external threats and stressors, and somewhat comparable to the body's evolutionarily-advantageous biological immune system and physical symptoms. Dysthymia can protect people's self-esteem, status, acceptance, and way of living and be a means to avoid ridicule, rejection, failure, and abandonment as well as related to kindhearted attempts to help others, which may explain its prevalence and persistence. Yet, vital elements that reveal clear and understandable logic and function can be invisible and inscrutable to the uninitiated. Identifying patterns and purpose demands a prepared and keen eye. Therefore, this series finale provides distilled illustrations that more closely represent how symptoms genuinely appear. Each a mystery with clues and evidence to detect and decipher. By applying knowledge gathered from the previous books you can identify and integrate psychological elements, mind and body unity, and social factors to discover purpose. While reinforced goal-attaining symptoms tend to remain, you'll also become aware of other reasons why depression can persist. Though psychological insight is helpful and general solutions are offered, given neurotic depression's complexity and unconscious features there are self-help limits and a valid need for external, expert guidance to reduce symptoms.

Decoding Persistent Depression: Book Four - Illustrations and Persistence: ""

Di Pietro, Roger

Science & Math

lulu.com

Early Recollections

Our present and our past are manifestly intertwined. Memories are not identical simulations of the past, but are stories shaped by our current perspectives of others, the world, and ourselves. As a result, the gathering of early recollections can be used as a projective technique that indicates our strengths, goals, lines of movement, fears, and a host of other relevant psychological data. Early Recollections are a quick, accurate, and cost-effective personality assessment demonstrated to have similar reliability and validity to other personality measures. Both a comprehensive and accessible text, Early Recollections: Interpretative Method and Application presents a constructivist approach and systematic development of early recollection theory. Mosak and Di Pietro invite students to think and actively engage in problem solving rather than merely read for content. Supported by step-by-step examples, this book also offers a perspective suitable for application by Adlerian practitioners, non-Adlerian clinicians, and all other mental health professionals and students seeking a new framework for evaluating personality.

Early Recollections: Interpretative Method and Application

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mosak, Harold H.

Mental Health

Routledge

This book examines personality characteristics related to generalized anxiety disorder, also known as neurotic anxiety. It offers a textbook-level depth of exploration with easy-to-understand examples and encouraging dialogue. Just as many biological symptoms (e.g., pain, fever, sweating) serve various functions, the book investigates an intriguing question: What if anxiety symptoms aren't merely the effect of some cause, but also personality-based and purposeful means to achieve goals?

The Anxiety Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Anxiety

Decoding Persistent Depression: Book One - Mysteries and Mindsets is the first book in a series which investigates long-term depression. It's based on and expands previous work and explores a condition known by its various aliases: dysthymia, persistent depressive disorder, neurotic depression, dysthymic depression, and chronic depression. With encouraging dialogue and examples, it provides a patient, easy introduction that identifies important fundamental points needed to grasp key concepts and clinical approaches revealed later in the series. While not a step-by-step self-help manual, the presented information can assist in developing understanding for symptomatic persons, as well as educators, friends, family, and healthcare providers. Clues along the way will help you eliminate distracting, contradictory, misleading, and countertherapeutic concepts. As you gather illuminating evidence, you'll be better able to comprehend and resolve an intriguing - and seemingly impenetrable - mystery, with all the usual suspects (and perhaps a few surprises): How can depression arise and why might it persist?

Decoding Persistent Depression: Book One - Mysteries and Mindsets: ""

Decoding Persistent Depression: Book Two - Mind and Body Mysteries is the second book in a series that addresses a vital and compelling question: What if psychological symptoms aren't necessarily the result of some cause, but personality-based means to achieve goals? It explores common perceptions of mind-body dichotomy, conscious and unconscious functioning, the role of emotions, defining neurotic characteristics, the diverse origins of problematic perceptions and goals, as well as various symptom functions. Written as a probing conversation with easy metaphors, guiding questions, and enlightening examples, it's comparable to therapy or classroom discussion. The information is presented in a way that allows a smoother, more approachable path of discovery. Patient investigation will enable you to detect, examine, and contemplate illuminating clues - often so subtle as to be easily overlooked - that may bring a telling pattern to light.

Decoding Persistent Depression: Book Two - Mind and Body Mysteries: ""