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(122 pp.)
MANIC-DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS AND PSYCHOTIC DEPRESSION:
Manifest Symptomatology, Psychodynamics,Sociological Factors, and Psychotherapy
Historical Notes
The Manifest Symptomatology of Manic-Depressive Psychosis
Psychodynamic Mechanisms
Prepsychotic Personality
Depression as a Feeling and as a Mechanism
The Study of Affective Psychoses from the Point of View of Sociocultural Psychiatry
(107 pp.)
Psychodynamics of Schizophrenia
The Family of the Schizophrenic
First Period: Early Childhood
Second Period: Late Childhood
Third Period: Adolescence, Youth, Adulthood
Fourth Period: The Psychosis
The Process of Active Concretization
Paleologic Thought
Desymbolization and Desocialization
Causality and Action: Motor Dysfunctions
Progressive Teleologic Regression
My own marked preference in the average case of schizophrenia is individual psychotherapy, although with numerous patients I use a mixed psychotherapy and drug therapy. My “bias” is based on the belief that physical therapies, as far as we know or can infer, produce only a symptomatic improvement, whereas psychotherapy tends to (1) remove the basic conflicts which are important and necessary causative elements of the disorder; (2) correct the psychopathologic patterns; (3) change the self-image of the patient and therefore make him less vulnerable; and (4) permit the regenerative psychological powers of the organism to regain the lost ground. (71 pp.)
The Foundations of Psychiatry. Offers an overview of the History of Psychiatry, Basic Notions, Human Development, Schools of Psychiatry, and Psychiatric Contributions from related fields. Download the entire volume or choose any of the individual chapters below. (3272 pp.)
What is schizophrenia? How can it be recognized, interpreted, and treated?
A critical review of the changing concepts of schizophrenia will be attempted in this chapter.
In practice we find that many states of sadness leading to severe depression have a long course, either chronic or subchronic, liminal or subliminal. We also find that in many cases in which a specific occurrence was the obvious and major precipitating factor, a subliminal state of sadness resulting from previous contingencies preexisted. Thus it is important to study the longitudinal psychodynamic history of each patient.
For major therapeutic approaches are available for the treatment of severe depression: psychotherapy, drug therapy, shock therapy, and hospitalization milieu therapy. Indications for psychotherapy exist in every case of primary severe depression. The intensity should not deter the therapist from making psychotherapeutic attempts. Concomitant drug therapy does not make the patient less accessible to psychotherapy.
- Choice of Treatment
- Beginning of Psychotherapy
- Therapy of the Patient with a Pattern of Submission to the Dominant Other
- The Treatment of Claiming Depression
- Treatment of Depression Following Failure to Reach the Dominant Goal, and of Depression with Mixed Patterns
- Advanced Stage of Treatment
