Chronic Depression : Interpersonal Sources, Therapeutic Solutions
“Jeremy W. Pettit, PhD and Thomas E. Joiner, PhD”
The link between depression and interpersonal behaviors has long been the subject of theoretical and empirical scrutiny. In Chronic Depression, authors Jeremy Pettit and Thomas Joiner draw upon the extensive body of research on interpersonal processes of depression and develop a new explanatory framework for this persistent mental illness. Their framework operates with the understanding that depression appears include self-sustaining processes, with these processes being in part interpersonal, and that viewing the processes from an interpersonal standpoint may be useful in applied settings.
