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The Theoretical and Experimental Foundations of a Cognitive Model for Depression

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Perception of Emotion in Self and Others

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The characteristic changes that occur in clinical depression have been recognized and recorded from the time of the ancient Greeks. While the descriptions of the correlates of depression (or “melancholia”) have been consistent in the past 2,000 years (see Grinker, Miller, Sabshin, Nunn, & Nunnally, 1961), theoretical and empirical knowledge has been severely hampered by the poor definition of depression. In the literature on “depression”, one will find references to a mood state, and also a syndrome or complex of symptoms. One will also find a plethora of subtypes of depression including “psychotic, neurotic, reactive, involutional, agitated, endogenous, psychogenic depressions and manic-depressive psychosis” (see Becker, 1974). Many of these subtypes reflect a hypothesized etiology (for example, psychological vs. physiological) of the depression. However, it is likely that the heterogeneity of the depressions implicates multiple etiologic factors (Akiskal & McKinney, 1973).

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Shaw, B.F. (1979). The Theoretical and Experimental Foundations of a Cognitive Model for Depression. In: Pliner, P., Blankstein, K.R., Spigel, I.M. (eds) Perception of Emotion in Self and Others. Advances in the Study of Communication and Affect, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3548-1_6

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