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Psychopathology I: Neurotic Psychopathology
May 7, 2021 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Wyman Classroom
Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Charlotte Malkmus, MA LMHC
Michael Pauly, MD
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May 7, 2021 — Depression
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46 pages
In Mourning and Melancholia, Freud introduces many concepts. Most pertinent to this class is his distinguishing mourning (grief) from melancholia (depression) by the over identification with the lost object and hence a diminishment in the regard for the self during times of loss. Please bring clinical material of your own.
McWilliams’ clear writing style serves as a great introduction to the experience of depression and to understand its differentiation from mourning /grief as well as differentiation from masochism and depleted-type narcissism.
Freud, S. (1917). “Mourning and Melancholia” in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIV, pp237-258.
McWilliams, N. (2011) Ch 11, “Depressive and Manic Personalities” in Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (2nd Edition), pp235-266.
Recommended
Ogden, T. (2002). A New Reading of the Origins of Object-Relations Theory, Int J of Psychoanalysis, 83:767-782.
Given the complexity and importance of understanding the concepts in Mourning and Melancholia I have included Ogden’s paper in which he gives his analysis and extends his thinking to show how Freud’s paper served as the beginning of an object relations theory. Ogden, he shares dream and clinical material from a patient of his to reveal the “frozen quality of the melancholic’s unconscious internal object world”.
