Springer is a leading scientific publisher, with a long history dating back to the mid-1800s. The first book edited by MIDAP researchers was published in July 2021, while the second volume of a series of six books committed to 2021 and 2022 will be published in August.
The Depression and Personality book series presents cutting-edge knowledge on the causes, treatment, and prevention of depression from a perspective that considers the interaction between depression and personality, and the multidimensional influences that contribute to the development, maintenance, and exacerbation of depression in different populations. MIDAP's multidimensional and multidisciplinary approach involves the development of an evidence-based model that considers the etiology, prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation of depression. This model is evident in the titles in the series, which cover the following topics:
1. Basic biopsychosocial structures and processes involved in depression and their interaction with personality.
2. Health promotion and psychosocial intervention strategies that prevent early conditions associated with the development of depression and personality dysfunction.
3. Interventions and psychotherapeutic mechanisms involved in the processes of relief and symptomatic change in various types of depressive patients.
4. Rehabilitation and reintegration interventions aimed at reducing the chronicity of depression and maintaining benefits after treatment, as well as issues related to early life abuse and comorbid personality dysfunction as risk factors for chronic or recurrent depression.
This book is consistent with MIDAP's perspective of understanding depression as a complex, multicausal, and multilevel phenomenon, as well as personality disorders, from a dimensional perspective that prefers to refer to personality dysfunction rather than disorder. In this sense, the authors were forced to take a "preliminary approach": their contributions, derived from their research, reviews, and studies, had to follow the perspective of functional domains.
1. Depression and Personality Dysfunction: An Integrative Functional Domains Perspective.
2. Etiopathogenic Theories and Models in Depression.
3. Prevention and Early Treatment of Depression Through the Life Course.
The series continues with the following books:
– Prevention and Management of Depression: New Perspectives, edited by Associate Researchers Vania Martínez and Claudia Miranda.
– Child Socio-Emotional Development and Depression: Prevention and Psychotherapy, edited by Associate Researcher María Pía Santelices and Adjunct Researcher Claudia Capella.
– The Relational Experience of Suicide, edited by Associate Researchers Susana Morales and Orietta Echávarri, and Collaborating Researcher Jorge Barros.
– Psychotherapy Process Research in Depression and Personality, edited by Associate Researcher Mariane Krause, Research Assistant Olga Fernández, and Young Researcher Daniel Espinosa.
