Major depression and the self-criticism and dependency personality dimensions

1994 ◽  
Vol 151 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-599 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depression ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personality Dimensions

Being Yourself

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Wall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cognitive Triad ◽  
Clinical Observations ◽  
Autonomous Decision ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Legal Test

This chapter discusses authentic decision-making as it relates to depression based on three parallel concepts found in philosophy, psychology, and the law. Since major depression is characterized (amongst other things) by ‘symptoms of sadness and diminished interest or pleasure’, ‘feelings of worthlessness/excessive/inappropriate guilt’ and a ‘cognitive triad of pessimism regarding the self, the world and the future’, the chapter explores whether an individual who has these symptoms can act on a judgment, thought, or belief in a way that lacks authenticity. It first explains, in philosophical terms, why autonomous decision-making presupposes a ‘personal identity’, before outlining a series of clinical observations suggesting that competence to make a decision requires an ‘appreciative ability’. It also considers whether the legal test for the capacity to make a decision has a component that is equivalent to ‘personal identity’ or an ‘appreciative ability’.

scholarly journals SNP-based heritability estimates of the personality dimensions and polygenic prediction of both neuroticism and major depression: findings from CONVERGE

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. e926-e926 ◽  
Author(s):  
A R Docherty ◽  
A Moscati ◽  
R Peterson ◽  
A C Edwards ◽  
D E Adkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depression ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Heritability Estimates

scholarly journals Typus melancholicus and the Temperament and Character Inventory personality dimensions in patients with major depression

2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Kimura ◽  
Tetsuya Sato ◽  
Toshihiko Takahashi ◽  
Tomohiro Narita ◽  
Shigeki Hirano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depression ◽  
Temperament And Character Inventory ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Typus Melancholicus ◽  
Character Inventory

Medial prefrontal cortex and the self in major depression

2012 ◽  
Vol 136 (1-2) ◽  
pp. e1-e11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cédric Lemogne ◽  
Pauline Delaveau ◽  
Maxime Freton ◽  
Sophie Guionnet ◽  
Philippe Fossati
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Medial Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
The Self

The replicability of the Big Five personality dimensions in three word‐classes of the Dutch language

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boele De Raad
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Big Five Model ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Word Classes ◽  
Dutch Language

Of the main classes of personality‐descriptive words, verbs, adjectives, and nouns, the class of adjectives has figured as the constant and almost exclusive resource for taxonomic enterprises. In the Dutch language, Brokken (1978) was the first to structure the personality‐descriptive adjectives on a large‐scale basis. The aim of that particular study was not to test the existence of the Big Five in the Dutch language. Of the six Brokken factors, only two or three showed a clear correspondence to the Big Five. Recently, De Raad, Mulder, Kloosterman and Hofstee (1988) and De Raad and Hoskens (1990) taxonomized the personality‐descriptive verbs and the personality‐descriptive nouns. In the present study, the self‐ratings on adjectives (N = 200), nouns (N = 200), and verbs (N = 200) from the latter two studies are used to test the Big Five model in the three classes of personality terms. The model fits well with the adjective domain, although the result deviates from the English structure in order of factors and in emphasis of interpretation. To a certain extent, the model can be said to capture the noun domain as well. Four of the Big Five factors can be identified more or less easily, and the fifth may be discernible as well. The verb structure, however, is quite different in that it shows only two dimensions which seem to be more comprising in meaning than both the adjective factors and the noun factors.

A structural analysis of the self-schema construct in major depression

1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 471-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zindel V. Segal ◽  
Jane E. Hood ◽  
Brian F. Shaw ◽  
E. Tory Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Schema

Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-Ii Follow-Up of Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder

1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 707-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan W. Ellason ◽  
Colin A. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Major Depression ◽  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Dissociative Identity Disorder ◽  
The Self ◽  
Dramatic Improvement ◽  
Treatment Progress ◽  
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory ◽  
Drug Dependent ◽  
Depression Scales

This study is part of a two-year follow-up assessment of 35 out of 96 patients clinically diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, who were administered the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II. Eight subjects achieved integration during the two-year follow-up period. Significant improvement was evident for raw scores on the Self-defeating, Borderline, Paranoid, Anxiety, Somatoform, Dysthymia, Alcohol Dependence, and Drug Dependent scales among both the integrated and nonintegrated patients, with clinically meaningful Base Rate reductions occurring on Self-defeating, Borderline, Avoidant, Passive-Aggressive, Anxiety, Dysthymia, and Major Depression scales following integration. Although Dissociative Identity Disorder presents with polysymptomatology, much treatment progress can be achieved during pre-integration and dramatic improvement follows integration.

Dysphoria: self-devaluative and affective components in recovered depressed patients and never depressed controls

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 1311-1316 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN D. TEASDALE ◽  
SALLY G. COX
Keyword(s):  
Major Depression ◽  
Cognitive Vulnerability ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Affective Component ◽  
Depressed Patients ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Affective Components ◽  
Interacting Cognitive Subsystems

Background. The Interacting Cognitive Subsystems analysis of cognitive vulnerability to depression predicts that subjective experiences of dysphoria in recovered depressed patients will be qualitatively different from those of controls. This study tested this prediction using a new instrument, the Depressed States Checklist.Methods. Twenty-three recovered recurrently depressed patients and 54 never depressed controls rated the affective and self-devaluative components of a dysphoric experience.Results. Groups reported similar levels of affective component but recovered depressed patients reported higher self-devaluative dysphoric experience. At zero affective component of dysphoria neither group reported any self-devaluative feelings. With increasing affective component of dysphoria, the self-devaluative component increased significantly more in recovered patients than in controls. The ratio of self-devaluative to affective components of dysphoria significantly differentiated recovered depressed patients from controls.Conclusions. As predicted, dysphoria in recovered depressed patients is qualitatively different from controls in ways that increase vulnerability to major depression. The Depressed States Checklist is a new, brief, measure of cognitive vulnerability to depression that may be particularly useful in large, prospective, epidemiological studies.

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