Biological Perspective On Jerry's Depression

The biological perspective states that the brain uses a number of chemicals as messengers to communicate with other parts of itself and with the nervous system. These chemical messengers, called neurotransmitters, are released and received by the brain's many nerve cells, which are also called neurons. Neurons are constantly communicating with each other by way of exchanging neurotransmitters. This communication system is essential to all of the brain's functions. A tiny space called a synapse connects neurons to one another. Depression has been linked to problems or imbalances in the brain with regard to the neurotransmitters serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. The neurotransmitter serotonin is involved in regulating many important physiological
Based on the trait perspective treatment for Jerry would be cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) learn how to identify false, damaging, or dysfunctional mental reactions that adversely affect his judgment during moments of everyday or extraordinary stress. They also learn how to replace those harmful reactions with alternatives that increase their sense of well-informed judgment and secure well-being. The Psychoanalytical perspective describes Jerry’s depression under the terms of: inwardly directed anger, introjection of love object loss, severe super-ego demands, excessive narcissistic, oral and/or anal personality need, loss of self-esteem, and deprivation in the mother child relationship during the first year. These underlying factors reemerge when subjects like Jerry experience any sort of loss in their life. Treatment makes people with depression separate themselves from the loss. In order to avoid turning into depression, the individual needs to engage in a period of mourning work, during which s/he recalls memories of the lost
Humanists believe that there are needs that are unique to the human species. According to Maslow the most important of these is the need for self-actualization (achieving out potential). The self-actualizing human being has a meaningful life. Anything that blocks our striving to fulfil this need can be a cause of depression. These are some of the possible causes: Parents imposing conditions of worth on their children. I.e. rather than accepting the child for who s/he is and giving unconditional love, parents make love conditional on good behavior. E.g. a child may be blamed for not doing well at school, develop a negative self-image and feel depressed because of a failure to live up to parentally imposed standards. Some children may seek to avoid this by denying their true self and projecting an image of the kind of person they want to be. This façade or false self is an effort to please others. However, the splitting off of the real self from the person you are pretending to be causes hatred of the self. The person then comes to despise themselves for living a