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Wounded healers : mental health workers' experiences of depression

Title: Wounded healers : mental health workers' experiences of depression / edited by Vicky Rippere and Ruth Williams ; with a foreword by Joseph Connolly.
Publication: Chichester ; New York : Wiley, ©1985.

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Description

xvi, 192 pages; 24 cm

Summary

An unusual examination of depression from the point of view of mental health workers who have themselves been despondent. This `travel guide' serves as the most comprehensive collection of phenomenological accounts of depressive experiences available. Examines some ultimately positive effects of the depressive experience in personal and professional life and relates personal accounts to scientific findings.

Subject

Genre/Form

Personal Narrative
Biography
Autobiography
autobiographies (literary works)
Personal narratives
Autobiographies
Biographies
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 189-192.

Contents

Trouble at Work. -- Arrivals and Departures. -- Women and Depression. -- Living with Depression. -- Depression in Retrospect. -- Depression: No Way Out? -- Conclusion. -- References.

ISBN

0471907464
9780471907466
0471905925
9780471905929

LCCN

84029118

OCLC

ocm11550669
11550669
SCSB-9119155

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library