title: [Personality structure and subjective illness concepts of neurotically depressed patients. Qualitative comparison of 11 individual cases analyses of initial psychotherapy interviews].
abstract: Verbatim transcripts of 11 psychotherapeutic interviews with patients suffering from depressive neurosis were examined, focusing on subjective theories of illness, biography, and descriptions of the patient's own personality. The results of our qualitative content analysis allow reconstruction of some characteristic features of these patients, like over identification with social roles and norms (1), feeling of being dependent and injured by another person (2), problems of self-esteem (3), shyness (4), unfulfilled wishes to be loved and accepted (5). These findings are discussed in the context of psychopathological and psychoanalytic concepts of depression.
authors.affiliation: Forschungsstelle für Qualitative Methoden, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Frommer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jüttemann-Lembke
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stratkötter
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tress
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012649:Self Concept; D012792:Shyness; D012803:Sick Role
vernacular_title: Persönlichkeitsstruktur und subjektive Krankheitsvorstellungen neurotisch Depressiver. Qualitativer Vergleich von 11 Einzelfallanalysen psychotherapeutischer Erstgespräche.