Material Type:
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printed text
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Title:
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Dépression productive et improductive : réussite ou échec d'un processus vital
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Authors:
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Emmy GUT
, Author
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Marianne ROBERT
, Translator
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Publisher:
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Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1993
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Pagination:
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445 p.
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Series:
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Le Fil rouge. Section 2, Psychanalyse et psychiatrie de l'enfant, ISSN 0768-066X
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Sub-series:
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Section 2, psychanalyse et psychiatrie de l'enfant
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ISBN (or other code):
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978-2-13-045247-8
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Size:
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445 p. / 22 cm
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Languages:
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French
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Original Language:
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English
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Keywords :
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Dépression
;
Mort
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Abstract:
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In this brilliant and original book, an experienced psychoanalytic psychotherapist and teacher of psychotherapy argues that depression—traditionally regarded as a serious and incapacitating disorder—can serve an important adaptive purpose. Its characteristic withdrawal and lowered mood allow a person to focus inward on conscious and unconscious processes and thus to resolve a deadlock in functioning. When depression is productive in this fashion it leads to improved understanding and growth; unproductive depression, in contrast, maintains the status quo or leads to deterioration.
Drawing on fictional accounts, autobiographies, and therapy cases, Gut articulates for the first time a unique and universal Basic Depressed Response, and shows how genetic, developmental, and cultural factors determine whether a person is able to make productive use of depression.
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Contents note:
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Bibliogr. pp. 423-437. Index
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