TOWARD AN INTERACTIONAL DESCRIPTION OF DEPRESSION
TOWARD AN INTERACTIONAL DESCRIPTION OF DEPRESSION
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DOI:
10.1080/00332747.1976.11023874
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
COYNE, JC
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作者:
COYNE, JC
DEVELOPMENTS in the interactional description of SChizophr. enia have not been paralleled in the area of depression. As yet, concepts such as pseudomutuality, double-bind, schism, and skew have found no counterparts. Kubler and Stotland (1964) have argued," emotional disturbance, even the most severe, cannot be understood unless the field in which it develops and exists is examined. The manifestations of the difficulty in the disturbed individual have meaning depending on aspects of the field. The significant aspects of the field are usually interpen? 0nal"(p. 260). Yet the study of depression has focused on the individual and his behavior out of his interactional context. To a large degree, the depressed person's monotonously reiterated complaints and self-accusations, and his provocative and often annoying behavior have distracted investigators from considerations of his environment and the role it may play in the maintenance of his behavior. The possibility thatthe characteristic pattern of depressed behavior might be interwoven and concatenated with a corresponding pattern in the response of others has seldom been explored. This paper will address itself to that possibility.For the most part, it has been assumed that the depressed person is relatively impervious to the influence of others. Ruesch (1962) stated that to talk to the depressed person makes little sense; to listen, little more. Grinker (1964) conceptualized depressive symptomatology as communication to others, but argued that the depressed person is not responsive to communication from others:" The depressed person... cannot use information for the purpose of action; he cannot perceive the cues of reality; he makes statements but does not care if he is understood"(p. 578).