Depression, Emotion and the Self

This is a technical book of philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on the phenomenology of depression. The four parts deal with self and agency, comparative phenomenology, body and culture, phenomenological and neurobiological perspectives. The emphasis is on the qualitative shift the overall structure of experience to a different alien world with implications for self, agency, the body, temporal experience and the sense of being rooted in the world. The papers draw on recent research on the emotions and new developments in the philosophy of psychiatry and will be of particular interest to those trying better to understand the nature of depressive illness.