Social Origins of Depression

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1978 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> I: Introduction; 1: Sociology and the Aetiology of Depression; 2: Depression; 3: Research Design; II: The Provoking Agents; 4: Measurement of Life-Events; 5: Meaning; 6: Life-Events and Depression; 7: The Importance of Events; 8: Difficulties; 9: Events and Difficulties; 10: Social Class, Provoking Agents, and Depression; III: Vulnerability Factors; 11: Vulnerability; 12: Borderline and Chronic Conditions; IV: Symptom-Formation Factors; 13: Severity of Depression; 14: Psychotic and Neurotic Depression and the Existence of Endogenous Depression; V: Interpretation and Conclusions; 15: Depression and Loss; 16: A Model of Depression; 17: Summary and Conclusions