PHSI 208 Lecture Notes - Major Depressive Episode, Social Skills, Bipolar Disorder

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Freud; during the oral period, a child"s needs may be insufficiently or oversufficiently gratified, causing the person to become fixated in this stage. With this arrest in psychosexual maturation, the person may develop a tendency to be excessively dependent on other people for the maintenance of self-esteem. Freud hypothesized that after the loss of a loved one, the mourner first interjects, or incorporates, the lost person" he identifies with the lost one, perhaps in a fruitless attempt to undo the loss. Because we unconsciously harbour negative feelings toward those we love, the mourner then becomes the object of his own hate and anger. The period of introjections is followed by a period of mourning work, separates himself from the person who has died or has died or disappointed him and loosens the bonds imposed by introjections. But the mourning work can go astray and develop into an ongoing process of self- abuse, self-blame and depression in overly dependent individuals.

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