Self-Psychological Interventions for Major Depression: Technique and Theory
Abstract
Cases of significantly depressed and regressed patients, where functional impairment necessitated psychiatric hospitalization, are presented to show the effects of a style of psychotherapeutic intervention whose goal is rapid mobilization of preexisting self-representations linked to positive affects. After defining the relevant self-psychological terms, we discuss the factors influencing emergence into consciousness of these positive affects and effects on the patient’s vegetative symptoms of depression during self-psychologically oriented psychotherapy.
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