Download Author: Mendelson, Myer, M.D.

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Psychoanalytic Views on Depression

Psychoanalysts are beginning to grasp that their psychoanalytic tools were inadequate for the treatment of depressive illness, but were not inadequate for many of the patients who were ill with depression after the biological aspects of their anxiety, panic, and dysphoria were relieved pharmacologically. (37 pp.)

The Psychotherapy of the Depressed Patient

There is widespread agreement that depression is essentially an affective state characterized by a loss of esteem. The therapeutic task, therefore, is to examine the circumstances of this loss and of the factors that predispose the patient to it. The goal of treatment is not only the alleviation or resolution of the depressive symptoms but also the development of the kind of insight that will give the patient greater immunity to subsequent recurrences and that will permit a more successful adaptation to life. (27 pp.)