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Includes indexes.

The basic questions and the psychological approach -- Critical review of the major concepts of depression -- The manifest symptomatology of depression in adults -- Manifest symptomatology of depression in children and adolescents -- The psychobiology of sadness -- Psychodynamics of severe depression -- Psychodynamics of mild depression -- Psychodynamics of depression and suicide in children and adolescents -- Psychotherapy of severe depression -- Psychotherapy of severe depression: case reports -- Postpartum depression -- Psychotherapy of depression during the middle years (involutional melancholia) -- Psychotherapy of mild depression -- Case illustration: the psychotherapy of mild depression -- Psychotherapy of depression in children and adolescents -- Sociocultural factors, sociology of knowledge, and depression -- Depression and methods of child-rearing -- Franz Kafka: a literary prototype of the depressive character -- Additional remarks on the relation between cognition and depression.