On the Dark Side of Chronic Depression

Psychoanalytic, Social-cultural and Research Approaches
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-24568-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 307 g

Reihe: Advances in Mental Health Research

This book brings together cutting-edge expertise from psychoanalysis, psychiatry, neuroscience and social science to shed light on the dark side of chronic depression.

Considering different forms of depression on a continuum, the book develops new diagnostical considerations on depression. It includes detailed case studies from clinical psychoanalytical practice, conceptual considerations and historical analyses to current empirical and neurobiological studies on depression. The book is unique in bridging a gap between Anglo-Saxon/German psychoanalysis and French traditions in relation to clinical treatment techniques and conceptualizations of depression and trauma. Chapters present new research on the social, biographical, genetic and neurobiological determinants of severe depressive disorder and explore how these can be differentiated and expanded in the face of new cultural realities as well of new findings particularly in modern neurosciences.

The book explores new understanding and discussion of treatment options for depression and will be essential reading for researchers and students in the field of depression and mental health research. It will also enrich the conceptual and clinical knowledge of psychoanalysts and psychotherapy researchers and students.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne

Ambresin, Gilles

Fischmann, Tamara

Solms, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Gilles Ambresin, Tamara Fischmann, Mark Solms

Part 1: Introduction

- On the Dark Side.

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

- From Acedia to Melacholy: Sadness in the Presence of God

Jean-Nicolas Despland

Part 2: Clinical and conceptual psychoanalytical approaches to depression and trauma

- The unpast core of depression

Dominique Scarfone



- The invisible depression

Nicolas de Coulon

- The denied object of melancholia

JC Rolland

- The psychoanalysis of a chronically and severely depressed patient

Bernard Reith,

- "Switching the light off to cast the shadow away"

Jean-François Simoneau

- Getting out of the shadow of the object

Anne Brun

- Together in the magma of despair

Valérie Bouville

- The presence of God in a melancholic patient

Gérard Winterhalter



- Some aspects of early development and depression: The case of Thea, an adolescent

Silke Kratel Cañellas

- Early Depressions: Loss of liveliness, withdrawal, psychosomatic issues and risk of developmental delay

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur



Part 3: Empirical and interdisciplinary research on depression and trauma

- Outcome Studies on longterm psychoanalytical psychotherapies on chronic depression: The MODE Study

Gilles Ambresin, Tamara Fischmann, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

- Memory re-consolidation and dreaming: shadows of the night

Tamara Fischmann, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Gilles Ambresin

- Depression in Neuropsychoanalysis: Why does depression feels bad?

Mark Solms,

- Thoughts on the failure of intersubjective development following maternal-child trauma and loss

Daniel S. Schechter

- Containing darkness:

Siri Gullestad

Über Autor(innen)

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is Professor Emeritus for psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel, past director in charge of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut in Frankfurt and now researcher at the Universitymedicine in Mainz, Germany.

Gilles Ambresin is Research Lead in the research program on chronic depression at the University Institute of Psychotherapy, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.

Tamara Fischmann is Professor of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin, Germany and researcher at the Sigmund-Freud-Institut (SFI) Frankfurt a.M.

Mark Solms is Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa.