Personality-guided Therapy For Depression (personality-guided Psychology)

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In Personality-Guided Therapy for Depression, Neil R. Bockian describes a promising new approach to treating complicated depression, cases in which progress is painfully slow, elusive, or followed by relapse. The causes and experience of depression are influenced by personality style, or deeply rooted patterns of functioning in the world. Depression in a person with a dependent style, for example, differs markedly from that in someone with an antisocial personality. This volume demonstrates how, drawing insights from major theoretical orientations, psychotherapy can be tailored to address patients' varying issues and communication styles. As treating personality disorders alleviates depression, and vice versa, this approach offers new hope for progress in both realms. Using Theodore Millon's personality-guided therapy as framework, Dr. Bockian illuminates how specific personality types play into depression, and how taking personality into account enables psychologists to tailor their interventions to the patient and thus improve the prospects for long-term recovery. For each personality type, the author explores how prevalent depression is, what promotes and maintains it, how psychological, biological, and social factors contribute to it, and the role of medications and of therapist reactions to the patient. This groundbreaking book offers practitioners, researchers, and students a framework for understanding how personality factors increase vulnerability to depression or help buffer against it.

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PERSONALITY^GUIDED PSYCHOLOGY BOOK SERIES THEODORE MILLON, Series Editor Personality-Guided Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder George S. Everly Jr. and Jeffrey M. Lating Personality-Guided Therapy in Behavioral Medicine Robert G. Harper Personality-Guided Forensic Psychology Robert J. Craig Personality-Guided Relational Psychotherapy: A Unified Approach Jeffrey J. Magnavita Personality-Guided Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Paul R. Rasmussen Personality-Guided Behavior Therapy Richard F. Farmer and Rosemery O. Nelson-Gray Personality-Guided Therapy for Depression Neil R. Bockian Personality-Guided Therapy for Depression Neil R. Bockian Series Editor Theodore Millon AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION WASH I N G T O N , DC Copyright © 2006 by the American Psychological Association. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, the process of scanning and digitization, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by American Psychological Association 750 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 www.apa.org To order APA Order Department P.O. Box 92984 Washington, DC 20090-2984 Tel: (800) 374-2721; Direct: (202) 336-5510 Fax: (202) 336-5502; TDD/TTY: (202) 336-6123 Online: www.apa.org/books/ E-mail: [email protected] In the U.K., Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, copies may be ordered from American Psychological Association 3 Henrietta Street Covent Garden, London WC2E 8LU England Typeset in Goudy by Stephen McDougal, Mechanicsville, MD Printer: Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, MI Cover Designer: Berg Design, Albany, NY Technical/Production Editor: Harriet Kaplan The opinions and statements published are the responsibility of the authors, and such opinions and statements do not necessarily represent the policies of the American Psychological Association. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Personality-guided therapy for depression / by Neil R. Bockian. p. cm. — (Personality-guided psychology) Includes bibliogra
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