Bron B
Schweiz Arch Neurol Neurochir Psychiatr. 1983;133(1):159-74.
Depression and faith are closely connected in Job. Struck by heavy buffets of fate and suffering from an incurable disease Job despairs of God. He ist no longer able to connect his suffering with his former experience of God. Whereas his friends exhort and rebuke him, Job feels to be innocent and expresses his despair in continuous laments and accusations in order to challenge God to give an answer. His ability "to transcend", his hope of "God, his friend" against "God, his enemy" saves him from resigned self-negation and total paralysis. In the care of Job it is safe to assume that there is no melancholy nor endogeneous depression, during which the power of faith and hope is often extinguished. The problem to what extent the category of hope and the ability of "transcending" in heaviest suffering and deep depression become especially relevant under the psychotherapeutic aspect, is an important question to be put to psychiatry and psychotherapy.
在《约伯记》中，抑郁与信仰紧密相连。约伯遭受命运的沉重打击，身患绝症，对上帝感到绝望。他再也无法将自己的苦难与过去对上帝的体验联系起来。尽管他的朋友们劝告并指责他，但约伯觉得自己是无辜的，并通过不断的哀叹和指责来表达自己的绝望，以挑战上帝给出答案。他“超越”的能力，他对“作为朋友的上帝”而非“作为敌人的上帝”的希望，使他免于听天由命的自我否定和完全的瘫痪。在约伯的故事中，可以合理地假设不存在忧郁症或内源性抑郁症，而在这些病症中，信仰和希望的力量常常会熄灭。从心理治疗的角度来看，在最沉重的苦难和深度抑郁中，希望的范畴以及“超越”的能力在何种程度上变得尤为重要，这是一个向精神病学和心理治疗提出的重要问题。
