title: [Mourning and depression, from the attachment theory perspective].
abstract: Since depression, according to OMS, is such a worldwide condition, it is necessary to be able to distinguish a normal mourning from a pathological mourning and a depression, so as to qualify patients and health professionals to be able to support a normal mourning without medicating it nor hurrying (hasting) it, as well as being able to treat a depression adequately when it appears as a complication. Attachment theory focuses on mourning after loss with notions such as 1- acceptance of search for the lost person as a normal fact; 2- that mourning in children may have non-pathological outcomes; 3- that a non-processed mourning may be transmitted in an intergenerational way, and 4- also defines which elements may determine a pathological mourning or a depression. A clinical case is presented with an analysis of these notions.
authors.affiliation: Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina (APA), Espacio Bowlby (APA), Carrera de Especialista en Psiquiatría, UBA, Capítulo de Psiquiatría Preventiva de APSA. psico@telecentro.com.ar
authors.forename: Elsa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wolfberg
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ekboir
authors.forename: Graciela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Faiman
authors.forename: Josefina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Finzi
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Freedman
authors.forename: Adela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heath
authors.forename: María C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Martínez de Cipolatti
mesh_terms: D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D011582:Psychological Theory