Depression

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Examines depression from the family-systems perspective. Contends that a depressed individual must be viewed in context of the family unit according to family therapy theory. Dynamics of interactions within family structure. Murray Bowen's view of self-differentiation. Family pathology and experience. Role of selt-esteem in depression.

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"This research examines the issue of individual depression from the family-systems perspective. The research will set forth the family context in which an individual's depression may surface and affect individual behavior and feeling, and then discuss ways in which the family of the depressed individual may be a factor in his or her behavior and feeling.

Tolstoy's (1970) observation that all happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way provides a means of setting out an endorsement of the family unit as the highest and best expression of human experience. The conflict created by Anna's elopement with Vronsky has its source in the fact of their violation of the integrity of the family structure. In great contrast to her cousin Levin, she forgoes the social protections of the family when she steps outside the ..."

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