Self-psychological interventions for major depression: technique and theory.
Cases of significantly depressed and regressed patients, where functional impairment necessitated psychiatric hospitalization, are presented to show the effects of a style of psychotherapeutic intervention whose goal is rapid mobilization of preexisting self-representations linked to positive affects. After defining the relevant self-psychological terms, we discuss the factors influencing emergence into consciousness of these positive affects and effects on the patient's vegetative symptoms of depression during self-psychologically oriented psychotherapy.
Deitz
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Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York.
D000368:Aged; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003071:Cognition; D003643:Death; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012043:Regression, Psychology