This third volume in Bowlby's groundbreaking trilogy on child development examines the effects of a death in the family on the lives of children and adults.

"Even though depression has periodically made me feel that my life was not worth living, has created havoc in my family, and sometimes made the work of teaching and writing seem impossible," writes David Karp, "by some standards, I have been fortunate." Indeed, depression can be devastating, leading to family breakups, loss of employment, even suicide. And it is a national pro...(展开全部)

Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate interviews with fifty depressed men and women. By turns poignant, disturbing, mordantly funny, and wise, Karp's interviews cause us to marvel at the courage of depressed people in deali...(展开全部)

阿伦•贝克 （Aaron T. Beck） 著名的心理学家，宾夕法尼亚大学精神病学名誉教授，认知治疗学派的创立者，被誉为“美国有史以来最具影响力的五位心理治疗师之一”。贝克观察到抑郁的人具有错误或扭曲的思维模式，由此开创了区别于弗洛伊德精神分析法的认知疗法，用纠正“认知信念歪曲”的方法治疗抑郁症，获得了广泛的认同及应用。他还创办了贝克认知治疗与研究学院，将认知疗法广泛应用于抑郁、焦虑、药物滥用等临床治疗中，并开发了包括“贝克抑郁量表”在内的多种应用广泛的心理测量量表。贝克教授获得的奖项和荣誉众多，包括素有“美国的诺贝尔奖”之称的基础医学研究“亚伯雷斯克奖”（Albert Lasker Award），著述了17本书和500多种其他出版物。 布拉德•奥尔福德 （Brad A. Alford） 斯克兰顿大学心理学教授，与阿伦•贝克合著多篇关于抑郁症和认知疗...(展开全部)

Michael Yapko's seminal 1992 book, Hypnosis and the Treatment of Depressions, was the first book ever written on the subject of applying hypnosis in the treatment of depressed individuals. Since its publication, Yapko's work has not only withstood the test of colleagues previously dismissive of the merits of hypnosis as a tool of treatment, but has thrived in the face of it. Hy...(展开全部)

Michael Yapko's seminal 1992 book, Hypnosis and the Treatment of Depressions, was the first book ever written on the subject of applying hypnosis in the treatment of depressed individuals. Since its publication, Yapko's work has not only withstood the test of colleagues previously dismissive of the merits of hypnosis as a tool of treatment, but has thrived in the face of it. Hy...(展开全部)

本书繁体中文版介绍： 躁鬱症是一種很奇特的疾病，使一個人的情緒擺盪在狂躁與憂鬱的兩極之間。《躁鬱奇才：不凡創造力的背後》一書，作者藉由研究貝多芬、狄更斯、牛頓與梵谷這四位天才的一生，來了解躁鬱症在他們生命中所扮演的角色，精彩的呈現精神病理如何深深地影響他們的創造發明與生命歷程。 誠如本書作者所言，人類的心智與精神狀態是由大腦細胞的狀況與大腦的化學狀態所決定，在精神疾病治療的第三波革命的此世代，精神疾病患者並非相對於正常人的另一類族群，而是能夠經由精神藥物治療獲得改善的一般人。過去許多研究創造力的專家學者對於精神病態與創造力之間是否具有關聯這個議題相當感興趣。目前已有研究顯示，患有躁鬱症或是有其前兆的孩童在創造力的得分比一般孩童的得分顯著的高。此外，許多著名的藝術家、音樂家、作家、科學家等具有創造力的人也都被診斷出患有躁鬱症，除了本書所提的四位天才之外...(展开全部)

The Loss of Sadness argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, but to the way that normal human sadness has been 'pathologised' since 1980. That year saw the publication of the landmark third edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), which has since become a dominant for...(展开全部)

Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by a massive upsurge in the consumption of antidepressant medication, widespread scr...(展开全部)

There are myriad questions that emerge when one considers emotions and decision-making: What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? What is the relationship between emotion, reward value, and subjective feelings of pleasure? How is the value of 'good' represented in the brain? Will neuroeconomics replace...(展开全部)