This book brings together cutting-edge expertise from psychoanalysis, psychiatry, neuroscience and social science to shed light on the dark sides of chronic depression.

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is Professor Emeritus for psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel, past director in charge of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut in Frankfurt and now researcher at the Universitymedicine in Mainz, Germany.

Gilles Ambresin is Research Lead in the research program on chronic depression at the University Institute of Psychotherapy, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.

Tamara Fischmann is Professor of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin, Germany and researcher at the Sigmund-Freud-Institut (SFI) Frankfurt a.M.

Mark Solms is Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa.

Preface

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Gilles Ambresin, Tamara Fischmann, Mark Solms

Part 1: Introduction

1. On the Dark Side.

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

2. From Acedia to Melacholy: Sadness in the Presence of God

Jean-Nicolas Despland

Part 2: Clinical and conceptual psychoanalytical approaches to depression and trauma

3. The unpast core of depression

Dominique Scarfone

4. The invisible depression

Nicolas de Coulon

5. The denied object of melancholia

JC Rolland

6. The psychoanalysis of a chronically and severely depressed patient

Bernard Reith,

7. "Switching the light off to cast the shadow away"

Jean-François Simoneau

8. Getting out of the shadow of the object

Anne Brun

9. Together in the magma of despair

Valérie Bouville

10. The presence of God in a melancholic patient

Gérard Winterhalter

11. Some aspects of early development and depression: The case of Thea, an adolescent

Silke Kratel Cañellas

12. Early Depressions: Loss of liveliness, withdrawal, psychosomatic issues and risk of developmental delay

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

Part 3: Empirical and interdisciplinary research on depression and trauma

13. Outcome Studies on longterm psychoanalytical psychotherapies on chronic depression: The MODE Study

Gilles Ambresin, Tamara Fischmann, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

14. Memory re-consolidation and dreaming: shadows of the night

Tamara Fischmann, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Gilles Ambresin

15. Depression in Neuropsychoanalysis: Why does depression feels bad?

Mark Solms,

16. Thoughts on the failure of intersubjective development following maternal-child trauma and loss

Daniel S. Schechter

17. Containing darkness:

Siri Gullestad