White, John, 1924-2002.
The masks of melancholy : a Christian psychiatrist looks at depression and suicide / John White. - Leicester : Inter-Varsity, 1982. - 252 pages : 3 illustrations ; 18 cm
Includes index.
Part one: Christianity and mental illness -- 1. The difference in depression -- Scenario 1: Silent as stone -- Scenario 2: Troubled for weeks -- Scenario 3: What about forgiveness -- Scenario 4: Needing a workout -- Defying definition -- 2. Sin, disease and the devil -- Physical disease and sin -- Mental illness and sin -- Demons and mental illness -- Demonic insanity -- 3. Healing and the mind -- Our Greek heritage -- The orchestra and the music -- Quietists and activists -- Part two: Science and the masks -- 4. Saints, science and psychology -- Of fear and faith -- The tower of Babel -- Measurement and Numbers -- When experiments disagree -- 5. The masks of melancholy -- The mood and the affect -- It can's all be in my head -- Camouflage symptoms -- Emotions that mask depression -- The mania of bipolar illness -- Part three: Understanding depression and suicide -- 6. Theories about depression -- Model 1: Aggression turned inward (psychoanalytical school) -- Model 2: Object loss (psychoanalytical school) -- Breaking the bonds of love -- Model 3: Loss of self-esteem (psychoanalytical school) -- Model 5-7: Sociological and Behavioral schools -- Reward and punishment! Go! and stop! -- Learned helplessness -- Model 8: Loss of meaning of existence (existential school) -- 7. Fearfully and wonderfully made -- Models 9-10: Biological schools -- The electrical impulse -- Neurotransmitters -- The brain's dispatch riders -- Genetics and depressive illness -- Ethical questions -- 8. The anatomy of suicide -- Suicide and society -- Suicide and epidemiology -- Psychology of suicide -- Suicide: fact and fable -- Part four: Coping with depression and suicide -- 9. Coping with suicide -- Assessing suicidal people -- Dealing with suicidal people -- Preventing suicide -- 10. Straightening bent minds: psychotherapies -- More about mind -- Psychotherapy -- Grief work -- Cognitive therapy -- Kant and cognitive -- Behavior therapy -- Pastoral counseling -- 11. Straightening bent minds: physical therapies -- Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) -- Lithium -- Electroconvulsive therapy (ETC) -- Combined help.
0851104428 9780851104423
GB8219843 bnb
009102140 Uk
Depression, Mental--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Suicide--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Suicide--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Suicide--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
Depression, Mental--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Suicide--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Man Depression - Christian viewpoints Suicide - Christian viewpoints
RC454
248.8/6 261.8/322 616.89
The masks of melancholy : a Christian psychiatrist looks at depression and suicide / John White. - Leicester : Inter-Varsity, 1982. - 252 pages : 3 illustrations ; 18 cm
Includes index.
Part one: Christianity and mental illness -- 1. The difference in depression -- Scenario 1: Silent as stone -- Scenario 2: Troubled for weeks -- Scenario 3: What about forgiveness -- Scenario 4: Needing a workout -- Defying definition -- 2. Sin, disease and the devil -- Physical disease and sin -- Mental illness and sin -- Demons and mental illness -- Demonic insanity -- 3. Healing and the mind -- Our Greek heritage -- The orchestra and the music -- Quietists and activists -- Part two: Science and the masks -- 4. Saints, science and psychology -- Of fear and faith -- The tower of Babel -- Measurement and Numbers -- When experiments disagree -- 5. The masks of melancholy -- The mood and the affect -- It can's all be in my head -- Camouflage symptoms -- Emotions that mask depression -- The mania of bipolar illness -- Part three: Understanding depression and suicide -- 6. Theories about depression -- Model 1: Aggression turned inward (psychoanalytical school) -- Model 2: Object loss (psychoanalytical school) -- Breaking the bonds of love -- Model 3: Loss of self-esteem (psychoanalytical school) -- Model 5-7: Sociological and Behavioral schools -- Reward and punishment! Go! and stop! -- Learned helplessness -- Model 8: Loss of meaning of existence (existential school) -- 7. Fearfully and wonderfully made -- Models 9-10: Biological schools -- The electrical impulse -- Neurotransmitters -- The brain's dispatch riders -- Genetics and depressive illness -- Ethical questions -- 8. The anatomy of suicide -- Suicide and society -- Suicide and epidemiology -- Psychology of suicide -- Suicide: fact and fable -- Part four: Coping with depression and suicide -- 9. Coping with suicide -- Assessing suicidal people -- Dealing with suicidal people -- Preventing suicide -- 10. Straightening bent minds: psychotherapies -- More about mind -- Psychotherapy -- Grief work -- Cognitive therapy -- Kant and cognitive -- Behavior therapy -- Pastoral counseling -- 11. Straightening bent minds: physical therapies -- Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) -- Lithium -- Electroconvulsive therapy (ETC) -- Combined help.
0851104428 9780851104423
GB8219843 bnb
009102140 Uk
Depression, Mental--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Suicide--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Suicide--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Suicide--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
Depression, Mental--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Suicide--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Man Depression - Christian viewpoints Suicide - Christian viewpoints
RC454
248.8/6 261.8/322 616.89