On the Dark Side of Chronic Depression

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is Professor Emeritus for psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel, past director in charge of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut in Frankfurt and now researcher at the Universitymedicine in Mainz, Germany. Gilles Ambresin is Research Lead in the research program on chronic depression at the University Institute of Psychotherapy, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland. Tamara Fischmann is Professor of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin, Germany and researcher at the Sigmund-Freud-Institut (SFI) Frankfurt a.M. Mark Solms is Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa.

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-François Simoneau




Getting out of the shadow of the object
Anne Brun




Together in the magma of despair
Valérie Bouville




The presence of God in a melancholic patient
Gérard Winterhalter






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




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