PSY240H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Mania, Major Depressive Episode, Postpartum Depression
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Depression has existed all throughout human history. Romans thought that emotional factors caused depression and thought psychotherapy was the method to treat it. Anatomy of melancholy in 1621 provided a detailed account of psychological and social factors of depression: before this the christian church thought that all mental disorders were due to the devil. Kraepelin worked on modern etiology of depression and coined the term manic-depression: both depressive and manic form of disorders: this formed the definition for mood disorders. Freud thought that mourners who were unable to resolve their grief, anger towards loved ones is turned inward as self-denigration. Individuals most likely to become depressed following a loss were those who lost in their oral stage of development. Everyone has periods of ups and downs but these are extended. Imagined loss: from freud and abraham, where individuals unconsciously interpret other types of events as severe loss events.
