This book serves as a practical and comprehensive introduction to depression, and its deep roots in trauma.

Autorentext

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, MD, Dr. Phil., is former professor of psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel and director of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt a.M. She is currently senior research fellow at the University Medicine Mainz, training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV/IPA), was vice chair of the Research Board of the IPA (20102021), and current member and former chair of the IPA Subcommittee for Migration and Refugees. She received the Mary Sigourney Award 2016, the Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis 2017, the Robert S. Wallerstein Fellowship (20222027), and the IPA's Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award 2023.

Inhalt

1. Depression as a Common, Polymorphic, Heterogeneous Disease with a Tendency to Chronicity: Introductory Remarks 2. Depression as a Signature of Our Time 3. Depression and Trauma: Long a Neglected Topic in Both Clinical and Extra-Clinical Psychoanalytic Research 4. "As far back as I can remember, I was always depressed " From a Psychoanalysis with a Chronic Depressed, Traumatized Patient 5. Depression in the Life Span of Depressed Individuals: Some Considerations Concerning Specific Challenges in Psychoanalytic Treatments 6. Psychoanalytical Depression Research in Interdisciplinary Exchange: Some Few Remarks 7. Summary and Outlook