The masks of melancholy : a Christian physician looks at depression & suicide / John White. [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, (c)1982.Description: 252 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780877849803
- RC537.W585.M375 1982
- RC537
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Includes bibliographies and index.
PennsylvaniaRT ONE: Christianity and Mental Illness -- 1. The differences in depression -- 2. Sin, disease, and the devil -- 3. Healing and the mind
PennsylvaniaRT TWO: Science and the Masks -- 4. Saints, science and psychology -- 5. The masks of melancholy
PennsylvaniaRT THREE: Understanding Depression and Suicide -- 6. Theories about depression -- 7. Fearfully and wonderfully made -- 8. The anatomy of suicide -- PennsylvaniaRT FOUR: Coping with depression and suicide -- 9. Coping with suicide -- 10. Straightening bent minds: psychotherapies -- 11. Straightening bent minds: physical therapies -- Epilog: Pain and shame which should not exist.
John White identifies the symptoms of depression, explains its complex causes, and discusses available treatments.
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