Modelling and Managing the Depressive Disorders

Professor Gordon Parker is Scientia Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales and the Executive Director of the Black Dog Institute which is a research, clinical, education and training facility for mood disorders. He is an active researcher and, in 2003, was awarded a Citation Laureate for being one of the most highly cited Australians in the fields of Psychiatry and Psychology. Dr Vijaya Manicavasagar is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow with the Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, and an adjunct Senior Lecturer within the School of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine of the same university. She has had a long-standing interest in the psychological treatment of mood disorders.

'What I found particularly refreshing about this book was the brio with which it was written … the attitude and approach displayed by the authors of this volume are surely a hopeful prognostic sign for future research in depression.' Allan Y. Young, The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Current Model for Depressive Disorders and its Impact on Clinical Management: 1. A declaration of independence; 2. Defining and diagnosing depression; 3. Depression sub-typing: independence and interdependence; Part II. The Diagnosis and Management of Psychotic and Melancholic Depression: 4. Management of melancholic depression; 5. Management of psychotic depression; 6. Bipolar melancholic/psychotic depression; 7. Our model of non-melancholic depression; 8. Self-esteem; 9. Personality style and functioning; 10. Identifying the constructs to non-melancholic depression - stress; 11. Resilience and vulnerability; 12. Psychological interventions for non-melancholic depression; Part III. Modelling and Managing the Non-Melancholic Depressive Disorders: 13. Acute stress-related non-melancholic depression; 14. Acute stress-related non-melancholic depression: 'key and lock' mode; 15. Chronic stress-related non-melancholic depression; 16. The perfectionist personality style and non-melancholic depression; 17. Irritability and non-melancholic depression; 18. Anxious worrying and non-melancholic depression; 19. Social avoidance and non-melancholic depression; 20. Personal reserve and non-melancholic depression; 21. Rejection sensitivity and non-melancholic depression; 22. Self-focussed personality style and non-melancholic depression; 23. Self-criticism and non-melancholic depression; 24. Natural and alternative treatments for non-melancholic depression; Appendix 1. The DMI-18 and the DMI-10; Appendix 2. The core system of measuring psychomotor disturbance; Appendix 3. The temperament and personality (T&P) measure.