PUBERTAL MANIC-DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS AND MENTAL SUBNORMALITY—A CASE REPORT

1975 ◽  
Vol 21 (40) ◽  
pp. 34-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. HUCKER
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Mental Subnormality

Bipolar Manic-Depressive Psychosis in Early Adolescence: A Case Report

1974 ◽  
Vol 125 (587) ◽  
pp. 416-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian S. Berg ◽  
Roy P. Hullin ◽  
Michael N. E. Allsopp ◽  
Patrick O'Brien ◽  
Robert MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Plasma Levels ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Antidepressant Medication ◽  
Lithium Carbonate ◽  
School Phobia ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
High Doses

A girl is briefly described who had typical bipolar manic-depressive psychosis starting unusually early at 14 years of age. Symptoms at the time of onset included severe anorexia, school phobia and attempted suicide, about the time of onset. She required unusually high doses of lithium carbonate to obtain adequate plasma levels, and there was a tendency for the administration of antidepressant medication to cause her to switch rapidly from depression to hypomania. The last two findings were shared by her father who also had bipolar manic-depressive psychosis.

Manic-Depressive Psychosis: An Alternative Conceptual Model

1968 ◽  
Vol 114 (517) ◽  
pp. 1523-1530 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H. Court
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Biological Cycle ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive

The traditional concept of manic-depressive psychosis has been either a bi-polar or a circular one, used interchangeably. The psychoanalytic school has invoked the polarity of much of human behaviour as an appropriate analogy. For example “The tragedy is succeeded by the satyr play: after the serious worship of God comes the merry fair… On the same basis the same sequence is represented by the cycle of guilt feelings and unscrupulousness, later by the sequence of guilt feelings and forgiveness…. The manic-depressive cycle is a cycle between periods of increased and decreased guilt feelings: … this cycle, in the last analysis, goes back to the biological cycle of hunger and satiety in the infant” (Fenichel, 1946, p. 409).

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