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Psychodynamika, psychobiologie a terapie deprese
Psychodynamics, Psychobiology and Therapy of Depression

Author(s): Jan Ponìšický
Subject(s): Individual Psychology, Neuropsychology, Personality Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Demography and human biology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: depression; psychodynamics; psychobiology; dependence; integration; therapy;

Summary/Abstract: From psychogenetic (neurotic or reactive) point of view depression is defined as a pathologic reaction of loss. Why pathologic? Depressive patient does not accept the separation and therefore repress the aggression as well as the sadness. More often, he deals with the threat of loss, to be abandoned or rejected, or the loss of harmony threats. Such patients identify themselves with expectations of others and sacrifice their autonomy. They become dependent. In the last time we meet another psychodynamics of depression in people, who are dependent on the work performance and fail, or who are losing their identity. The author proposes an integrative psychodynamic and psychobiological concept of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy of depression.

  • Issue Year: 8/2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 223-227
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Czech