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Silencing the Self Across Cultures - Depression and Gender in the Social World (Hardcover)
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Silencing the Self Across Cultures - Depression and Gender in the Social World (Hardcover)
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Winner of the 2011 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award
This international volume offers new perspectives on social and
psychological aspects of the complex dynamic of depression. The
twenty-one contributors from thirteen countries - Australia,
Canada, Finland, Germany, Haiti, India, Israel, Nepal, Poland,
Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scotland, and the United States - represent
contexts with very different histories, political and economic
structures, and gender role disparities.
Authors rely on Silencing the Self theory, which details the
negative psychological effects when individuals silence themselves
in close relationships and the importance of the social context in
precipitating depression. Specific patterns of thought about how to
achieve closeness in relationships (self-silencing schema) are
known to predict depression. This book breaks new ground by
demonstrating that the linkage of depressive symptoms with
self-silencing occurs across a range of cultures. We offer a new
view of gender differences in depression situated in the formation
and consequences of self-silencing, including differing
motivational aims, norms of masculinity and femininity, and the
broader social context of gender inequality.
The book offers evidence regarding why women's depression is more
wide-spread than men's and why the treatment of depression lies in
understanding that a person's individual psychology is inextricably
related to the social world and close relationships. Authors
examine not only gender differences in depression but also related
aspects of mental and physical illness, including treatments
specific to women. Several chapters describe the transformative
possibilities of community-driven movements for disadvantaged women
that support healing through a recovery of voice, and describe the
need for systemic and structural changes to counter violations of
human rights as a means of reducing women's risk of depression.
Bringing the work of these researchers together in one collection
furthers international dialogue about critical social factors that
affect the rising rates of depression around the globe.
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