Psychology 2310A/B Lecture 7: Lecture 7; Mood Disorders.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Rod Martin

Document Summary

Bipolar: both mania and depression, periods of mania and depression. Very rare for someone to have mania without having depression. Freud and his student abraham had an early psychodynamic model that drew a parallel b/w depression and grief. According to them individuals most likely to become depressed following a loss are those whose needs either were not met or were excessively met during the oral stage of development. Also recognized that some ppl develop depression despite the absence of loss. They develop the concept of imagined loss such that the individual unconsciously interprets other types of events as severe loss events (even a failure at work could be interpreted as a loss) Depression tells us something is wrong with our life, there is a healing process that needs to take place. The grieving process; a psychological process of healing when someone close to you dies.