title: Unrealistic wishes and physiological change. An overview.
abstract: This paper examines postulated relationships between physiological change and unrealistic wishes in a population of women with histories of depression. Findings are discussed within an evolutionary framework with emphasis on species-typical functions of imagining, and postulated interactions between behavior, imagining, unrealistic wishes and physiological systems. The ideas developed may be of interest to psychoanalysts in that they appear to increase the breadth and precision of psychoanalytic interpretations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry-Biobehavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: McGuire
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Troisi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008875:Middle Aged; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation