Main description:

This book brings together cutting-edge expertise from psychoanalysis, psychiatry, neuroscience and social science to shed light on the dark side of chronic depression.

Considering different forms of depression on a continuum, the book develops new diagnostical considerations on depression. It includes detailed case studies from clinical psychoanalytical practice, conceptual considerations and historical analyses to current empirical and neurobiological studies on depression. The book is unique in bridging a gap between Anglo-Saxon/German psychoanalysis and French traditions in relation to clinical treatment techniques and conceptualizations of depression and trauma. Chapters present new research on the social, biographical, genetic and neurobiological determinants of severe depressive disorder and explore how these can be differentiated and expanded in the face of new cultural realities as well of new findings particularly in modern neurosciences.

The book explores new understanding and discussion of treatment options for depression and will be essential reading for researchers and students in the field of depression and mental health research. It will also enrich the conceptual and clinical knowledge of psychoanalysts and psychotherapy researchers and students.

Contents:

Preface

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Gilles Ambresin, Tamara Fischmann, Mark Solms

Part 1: Introduction

On the Dark Side.
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

From Acedia to Melacholy: Sadness in the Presence of God
Jean-Nicolas Despland

Part 2: Clinical and conceptual psychoanalytical approaches to depression and trauma

The unpast core of depression
Dominique Scarfone

The invisible depression
Nicolas de Coulon

The denied object of melancholia
JC Rolland

The psychoanalysis of a chronically and severely depressed patient
Bernard Reith,

"Switching the light off to cast the shadow away"
Jean-Francois Simoneau

Getting out of the shadow of the object
Anne Brun

Together in the magma of despair
Valerie Bouville

The presence of God in a melancholic patient
Gerard Winterhalter

Some aspects of early development and depression: The case of Thea, an adolescent
Silke Kratel Canellas

Early Depressions: Loss of liveliness, withdrawal, psychosomatic issues and risk of developmental delay
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

Part 3: Empirical and interdisciplinary research on depression and trauma

Outcome Studies on longterm psychoanalytical psychotherapies on chronic depression: The MODE Study
Gilles Ambresin, Tamara Fischmann, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

Memory re-consolidation and dreaming: shadows of the night
Tamara Fischmann, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Gilles Ambresin

Depression in Neuropsychoanalysis: Why does depression feels bad?
Mark Solms,

Thoughts on the failure of intersubjective development following maternal-child trauma and loss
Daniel S. Schechter

Containing darkness:

Siri Gullestad