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A large proportion of older adult Latinos have at least one chronic physical health condition; those same individuals who also exhibit depressive symptoms experience higher mortality rates. Given their projected population growth of 500% by 2050, it is important to disentangle t…

This dissertation attempts to integrate a psychoanalytic perspective on religious experience with a psychoanalytic understanding of “introjective-depressive personality” pathology within a subsection of the Roman Catholic clinical population. First, the author reviews relevant l…