Some Clinical Observations On the Psychodynamic Relationship Between Depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms

1948 ◽  
Vol 94 (396) ◽  
pp. 650-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Stengel
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms ◽  
Obsessional Neurosis ◽  
Clinical Observations ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Personality Features

Obsessional symptoms and depression often co-exist. There are obsessional neurotics who are subject to recurrent depressions, and there are patients with marked obsessional personality features, but not suffering from an obsessional neurosis, who develop severe obsessional symptoms in the course of their depressions only. I do not agree with those writers who maintain that the typical features of the obsessional character can be found in every case of manic-depressive illness.

scholarly journals Revisiting Shimoda's “Shuuchaku-Kishitsu” (Statothymia): A Japanese View of Manic-Depressive Patients

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Hitoshi Tsuda
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Significance ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Continental Origin ◽  
Personality Features ◽  
Depressive Patients

Although the empiric paradigm is now dominant in academic research, in Japan quite a few psychiatric clinicians still take phenomenological-anthropological approaches into consideration, especially when they address manic-depressive illness with typical endogenous features. This is because Shimoda's concept of “shuuchaku-kishitsu” (statothymia) has been widely accepted, together with other phenomenological views of continental origin. In the present paper the author first delineates Shimoda's concept which is based on observations of patients' personality features and the characteristics of their emotionality. He then attempts to refine this concept in spatiotemporal terms, presenting the view that in patients the past self tends to adhere to the present self (the term “shuuchaku” means “adhering to” or “preoccupied with”). He also considers that patients tend to incorporate “soto” (outer space) into “uchi” (inner space), where they believe that symbiotic relations are preserved. Finally, he argues the clinical significance of the presented views in the cultural milieu in which Japanese psychiatric practices are situated.

Reducing American Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Will the DSM III Suffice?

1983 ◽  
Vol 142 (4) ◽  
pp. 414-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukdeb Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Dementia Praecox ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Fundamental Feature ◽  
Associative Processes ◽  
Clinical Observations ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
American Psychiatry

At the turn of the century Kraepelin brought together the disparate syndromes of hebephrenia, dementia paranoides, and catatonia under the rubric of dementia praecox. At the same time he crystallized the concept of manic-depressive illness as an entity discrete and separate from the former syndrome. In the years since Kraepelin's classification first came to be adopted, the definitions and descriptions of these two major disorders have undergone many changes. In an attempt to comprehend the meaning and the mechanism of the psychoses, Bleuler was drawn by the emergent theories of psychoanalysis to extend Kraepelin's clinical observations into the realm of psychology. He renamed dementia praecox the schizophrenias, thus emphasizing his idea that the splitting of associative processes was a fundamental feature of the syndrome; and he added the subcategory of simple schizophrenia. American psychiatry, dominated until recently by psychoanalytic concepts, has been influenced more by Bleulerian than Kraepelinian contributions. However, it has not restricted itself to Bleulerian notions. As Kety (1980) remarked in his Maudsley Lecture, great liberties have been taken with the syndrome of schizophrenia; the essential features have been altered, primarily by an expansion of its boundaries.

Conditioning and Sensitisation in the Longitudinal Course of Affective Illness

1986 ◽  
Vol 149 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Post ◽  
David R. Rubinow ◽  
James C. Ballenger
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Longitudinal Course ◽  
Behavioural Sensitisation ◽  
Affective Illness ◽  
Biological Variables ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Progressive Course

Few biological theories of manic-depressive illness have focused on the longitudinal course of affective dysfunction and the mechanisms underlying its often recurrent and progressive course. The authors discuss two models for the development of progressive behavioural dysfunction—behavioural sensitisation and electrophysiological kindling—as they provide clues to important clinical and biological variables relevant to sensitisation in affective illness. The role of environmental context and conditioning in mediating behavioural and biochemical aspects of this sensitisation is emphasised. The sensitisation models provide a conceptual approach to previously inexplicable clinical phenomena in the longitudinal course of affective illness and may provide a bridge between psychoanalytic/psychosocial and neurobiological formulations of manic-depressive illness.

Transmission of Manic-Depressive Illness

JAMA ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 224 (8) ◽  
pp. 1187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Mendlewicz
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive
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