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Working with clients at the intersection of depression and personality dysfunction: Scientific and clinical findings regarding complex depression
Author(s) -
Behn Alex
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.22758
Subject(s) - personality , depression (economics) , psychology , intersection (aeronautics) , clinical psychology , management of depression , psychotherapist , psychiatry , alternative medicine , social psychology , medicine , pathology , engineering , economics , macroeconomics , aerospace engineering
Depression is often complicated by concurrent personality dysfunction, which poses significant challenges for clinicians and researchers. Complicated depression is thus broadly presented as a useful clinical and scientific entity, describing clients presenting with depressive symptoms that are further complicated by personality dysfunction or personality pathology. The article introduces a collection of research‐based papers addressing the clinical management of patients with complicated depression. The articles in the issue provide an up‐to‐date framework for understanding different forms of complicated depression and provide useful clinical information to illuminate the treatment of clients presenting with difficulties at the intersection of depression and personality dysfunction.