The Relationship Between Depression and Hopelessness
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 154 (5), 650-659
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.154.5.650
Abstract
In both Beck's cognitive theory of depression and Brown & Harris's sociopsychological model, hopelessness is given unwarranted universality and centrality. Empirical evidence contradicting this element of the two theories has been ignored, and two new investigations are presented which suggest the existence of ‘non-hopeless' depression. A more complete account of the heterogeneous nature of depression is now required.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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