Counseling Depressed Women

Why do women suffer depression twice as often as men? Susan Dunlap integrates findings from biology, psychology, sociology, and theology to discover that powerlessness is a cause of depression. Based on this understanding, she develops a pastoral theological response to bring hope to depressed women.The purpose of the Counseling and Pastoral Theology series is to address clinical issues that arise among particular populations currently neglected in the literature on pastoral care and counseling. This series is committed to enhancing both the theoretical base and the clinical expertise of pastoral caregivers by providing a pastoral theological paradigm that will inform both assessment and intervention with persons in these specific populations.

Foreword

xi

(4)

Acknowledgments

xv

Introduction

1

(5)

1. Women, Depression, and Theology

6

(15)

A Biopsychosocial Model

6

(3)

A Lifespan Perspective

9

(2)

Theological Challenges

11

(3)

Interdependent Theological Stances

14

(7)

2. Cognitive Therapy

21

(12)

The Psychoanalytic Contribution

22

(1)

An Introduction to Cognitive Therapy

23

(4)

Cognitive Therapy in the Parish Setting

27

(1)

A Typical Course of Therapy

28

(1)

Cognitive Therapy and Women

29

(2)

Cognitive Therapy and the Biopsychosocial Model

31

(2)

3. Social Location

33

(18)

Two Means of Damage

34

(3)

Women and Access to Power

37

(2)

Discourse: Uniting Internal and External

39

(5)

Theology as Discourse

44

(2)

Cognitive Therapy and Resistance

46

(3)

Conclusion

49

(2)

4. Self

51

(16)

Self and Intimacy

53

(1)

Case Study: Sally

54

(2)

Self and Work

56

(1)

The Pastoral Counseling of Women's Selves

57

(1)

The Socially Constructed Self

57

(4)

The Bell Jar

61

(4)

Conclusion

65

(2)

5. Relationship

67

(16)

Case Study: Marcy

70

(3)

Female Depression and Male Narcissism

73

(2)

Depression and Family Systems

75

(1)

Relationship as Resource in Pastoral Counseling

76

(2)

Writing a Woman's Life

78

(3)

Theological Perspective

81

(2)

6. Women's Bodies

83

(19)

Women's Bodies as Commodity

84

(3)

Depression's Distortions and Culture's Lies

87

(5)

Physical Vulnerability

92

(3)

Women's Bodies and Reproduction

95

(1)

Medication, Cognitive Therapy, and Women

96

(1)

Theological Discourse and Women's Bodies

97

(2)

The Body and Spirituality

99

(3)

7. Anger

102

(14)

Anger and Depression

102

(4)

Social Context of Women's Anger

106

(3)

Christian Theology and Women's Anger

109

(1)

Depression as Strategy?

110

(1)

Pastoral Counseling of Angry Depressed Women

111

(5)

8. Hope

116

(11)

Hope, Care, and Time

117

(3)

Women Hopefully Speaking of God

120

(2)

Qualities of Hope

122

(5)

Notes

127

(12)

Index

139

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