title: Naming the nonexistent: melancholia as mourning over a possible object.
authors.affiliation: Psychoanalytic Institute in Jerusalem. danaa@netvision.net.il
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Amir
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004532:Ego; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D011385:Projection; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011936:Reality Testing