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Emotions in Depression: What Do We Really Know?
- Source :
- Annual review of clinical psychology. 13
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Major depressive disorder is among the most common and costly of all mental health conditions, and in the last 20 years, emotional dysfunction has been increasingly seen as central to depression. Accordingly, research on emotions in depression has proceeded with fury. The urgency of the work has tempted investigators to issue premature declarations and to sometimes overlook theoretical and methodological challenges entailed in studying emotion. I report on what we have learned thus far about how depression influences emotional reactivity and emotion regulation, and also carefully demarcate the vast terrain of what we do not yet know. Ironically, an attitude of humility may enable the field to achieve the ambitious but elusive goal of developing a rich, contextually specific account of depression-related changes in emotional reactivity and regulation. Such an account is a precondition for using knowledge about emotion to intervene more effectively to reduce depression's worldwide burden.
- Subjects :
- 050103 clinical psychology
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Emotions
Humility
050105 experimental psychology
Depression (economics)
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Affective Symptoms
Emotional dysfunction
Reactivity (psychology)
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Depressive Disorder, Major
05 social sciences
Emotional regulation
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Mental health
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Mood
Major depressive disorder
Psychology
Social psychology
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15485951
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annual review of clinical psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dd3a889240211c7890f042245a8b57a0