[The moral conscience in the depressive patient].
The two fundamental forms of the depressive guilt are the feeling of guilt and the delusion of guilt. Both phenomena emanate from a conscience distorted because of the depressive mood by means of an holothymic and catathymic mechanism. Also the other three dimensions of depression (anergy, discommunication and rhythmopathy) take part in producing this moral distortion. The appearance of the depressive guilt happens only when these two factors are present: a previous personality with a great spiritual development and a complete or tetradimensional depression. Shame and distrust replace the guilt in the asiatic and african countries.
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D003242:Conscience; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans