Depression as a psychoanalytic problem

by Azzone, Paolo

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Title Statements

Full title :Depression as a psychoanalytic problem / Paolo Azzone.

Summary

"Over the past few decades, psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry have been steadily stepping back from a key role in the understanding and treatment of depressive disorders. This book investigates the basis for such retreat by delving into the history of medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature. It unveils the social motives for the overwhelming consensus currently gathered by the biomedical model of depression. The book then moves on to discuss at depth psychoanalytic literature on depression and reveals how it possesses an enormous explanatory power for depression symptoms. This approach allows the author to offer readers a comprehensive, dynamically-oriented model of symptom formation in depression "--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014
Edition:First paperback edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of America
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:fre
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 134 pages : : 1 illustration ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780761860419, 076186041X, 9780761864400, 0761864407
oclc:ocn932101286
LC Classification:RC537

Subjects

Dépression Depression, Mental Depressive Disorder Psychanalyse Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Theory Psychodynamic psychotherapy Psychothérapie dynamique