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"This is the most thoughtful book yet on the topic of spirituality and depression. John Peteet provides practitioners within both secular and faith-based contexts with invaluable tools for assessing and treating depression as a biological, psychological, social, and spiritual phenomenon."ùKenneth I. Pargament, Phd, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio; Author, Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy Understanding and Addressing the Sacred. "With a rich abundance of case material, Dr. Peteet lays out a well-crafted foundation for practical integration of religious and spiritual dynamics in the treatment of depression. In doing so, he provides a clinical anthropology that is at once full and philosophically satisfying."ùLeigh C. Bishop, MO, MA, Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas. "This excellent text offers scholarly guidance for helping patients integrate their emotional and spiritual experiences; offers a framework for reconciling biological, psychological, and spiritual paradigms; and goes beyond a focus on spiritual approaches to their applications."ùHarold G. Koenig, MO, Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Director, Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, nuke University Medical Center, Noah Carolina. Antidepressants have come to lead prescription drug sales, the percentage of depressed individuals treated with psychotherapy has declined, and spiritual approaches to emotional healing have continued to emerge. Those interested in addressing the multidimensional nature of depression face important questions of both practice and theory. Depression and the Soul begins by examining the spiritual dimension of mental health. Subsequent chapters explore the way that depression can permeate the whole self, the complexity of the relationship between depression and spirituality, the differential diagnosis and case formulation of depressive disorders (including their spiritual dimension), existential domains relevant to comprehensive treatment, the spiritual aspects of suicide and its aftermath, secular and faith-based models of integrated care, and the implications of developments in neurobiology and psychopharmacology. --Book Jacket.