Depression : Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt.

Cover -- DEPRESSION -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE -- Duplicity and Pretending -- SINCERITY AND DUPLICITY -- CHARACTER AND CULTURE -- Chip's Story -- PRETENDING AND CULTURE -- SUMMARY -- CHAPTER TWO -- Volition -- GOING BERSERK -- PURPOSEFUL PRETENDING -- CHARACTER AND VOLITION -- SUMMARY -- CHAPTER THREE -- Pretending and Depression -- DEPRESSION -- CLINGING TO THE PAST AND CONSTRICTING THE FUTURE -- DENYING THE PAST AND EXTRAVAGATING THE FUTURE -- PRETENDING AND PSEUDODEPRESSION -- DUPLICITY AND HEALTH -- CHAPTER FOUR -- Depression and Meaning -- NARRATIVE AND MEANING -- KINDS OF DEPRESSION -- MEANING AND DEPRESSION -- Pseudodepression -- Pure Depression -- Agitated Depression -- DEPRESSIVE NARRATIVES -- SUMMARY -- CHAPTER FIVE -- Loss, Anger, Fear, Longing, and Guilt -- FALSE CAUSES OF DEPRESSION -- Loss -- Anger -- Fear -- Longing -- TRADITIONAL VIEWS OF THE CAUSE OF DEPRESSION -- Freud's Theory of Guilt -- An Alternate Interpretation -- SUMMARY -- CHAPTER SIX -- Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Pretending -- PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT -- A Historical Analogy -- PRESERVING VALUES -- EMOTIONAL NARRATIVES -- RETURNING TO EMOTIONS -- NARRATIVE AND PRETENDING -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- Notes on Morality and Ontology -- IS MORALITY VESTIGIAL? -- RICOEUR'S ANTHROPOLOGY -- DEPRESSION AND SADNESS -- SOME CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- Guilt and Depression -- KINDS OF GUILT -- Essential Guilt -- Existential Guilt -- Angry Guilt -- Pretending Guilt -- GUILT, EVIL, AND DEPRESSION -- THERAPY AND DUPLICITY -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author.

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