Sadness, depression, and the dark night of the soul : transcending the medicalisation of sadness /
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| Author / Creator: | Durà-Vilà, Glòria, author. |
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| Imprint: | London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016. ©2017 |
| Description: | 357 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11054633 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- What is the book about
- Why did I embark on this research?
- Reflecting on the challenges of the research
- Potential positive effect of the research
- Organisation of the book
- Note
- Part I. Setting the Literary and Historical Contexts
- Looking back at the origins of the study
- Note
- 1. Depression and the Medicalisation of Sadness: Conceptualisation and Help-Seeking
- Medicalisation of sadness and suffering
- The role of culture and religion
- Help-seeking and coping with sadness and depression
- Note
- 2. The Role of the Clergy in the Management of Sadness and Depression, and Their Collaboration with Mental Health Professionals
- Psychiatrists' attitudes regarding the clergy's involvement in mental health care
- The clergy as a resource for mental health
- Collaboration between the clergy and psychiatrists
- Pastoral care, spiritual direction and the sacrament of confession
- 3. Sketches on the Catholic Church and Monasticism
- The state of the Church and the clergy
- An historical overview of the Cistercian and Augustinian Orders
- Ethnographic research into monasticism
- Notes
- Part II. Unfolding the Narrators of Sadness and Spiritual Growth
- 4. The Participants and Their Ways of Life
- Fieldwork and interviews
- 57 faces, 57 stories
- Differences between the monks and the nuns
- Notes
- 5. Conceptualisation of Sadness, Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul
- Normal sadness and pathological sadness: conceptualisation and distinction
- The Dark Night of the Soul: a case of non-pathological religious sadness
- Religion as a cause for pathological sadness
- Notes
- 6. Coping and Help-Seeking for Sadness and Depression
- Coexistence of religious and secular coping strategies and help-seeking behaviours
- Medical help-seeking behaviours and an absence of causality for the sadness
- The impact of the individual's personality
- Differences and peculiarities observed in the nuns, monks and priests
- Notes
- 7. The Role of the Clergy in the Care of Sadness and Depression, and Their Collaboration with Mental Health Professionals
- Pastoral care is provided for both sadness and depression
- Views on the clergy's pastoral care from the perspective of contemplative participants and law people: benefits, critique and comparison with the monks
- Clergy and mental health professionals: overlap, rivalry and collaboration
- Notes
- Part III. Stepping Beyond the Monasteries' and Parishes' Walls
- 8. The Medicalisation of Sadness and the Dark Night of the Soul
- Modern tendency to define severe distress as disease
- Contextualisation of sadness: attribution of meaning and the Dark Night of the Soul
- Note
- 9. Religious Coping with Sadness and Depression
- Religious coping strategies
- Differences between the nuns and the monks
- Notes
- 10. The Clergy's Role in Assisting Those Suffering from Sadness and Depression
- My findings in dialogue with the previous literature
- The clergy's view of psychiatrists: rivalry and opposition
- Clergy's explanatory models for depression and possible repercussions for their pastoral care
- Clergy's pastoral care for sadness and depression: compliments and complaints
- Final reflections on pastoral care
- Notes
- 11. A Framework to Differentiate Normal Sadness from Depression
- Rationale of the framework
- Distinguishing normal sadness and the Dark Night of the Soul from depression in clinical practice
- Applicability of the study to a secular context
- Notes
- Appendix 1. Ethical Considerations
- Appendix 2. Limitations of the Study
- Appendix 3. Finding the Questions to Get the Answers
- Appendix 4. Summary of Findings: Main Themes and Sub-Themes Extracted From the Participants' Interviews
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index
