DESCRIPTION:
Describing the ways in which human subordination systems of ancient origin relate to other behavioral systems & contribute to depressive illness, this book offers a new evolutionary model of mood disorders & explores its implications for therapy.
CONTENTS:
Preface
Introduction
1. Varieties of Submissive Behavior as Forms of Social Defense: Their Evolution and Role in Depression.
2. How the Involuntary Defeat Strategy Relates to Depression.
3. Dysthymic Disorder, Regulation-Dysregulation Theory, CNS Blood Flow, and CNS Metabolism.
4. Major Depression and the Involuntary Defeat Strategy: Biological Correlates.
5. The Involuntary Defeat Strategy and Discrete Emotions Theory.
6. Social Comparison Processes Among Depressed Individuals: Evidence for the Evolutionary Perspective on Involuntary Subordinate Strategies?.
7. Subordination, Self-Esteem, and Depression.
8. A Cognitive Behavioral Perspective on the Involuntary Defeat Strategy.
9. Social Competition and Attachment.
10. Concluding Comments.
