Cruelty of Depression: On Melancholy

By Jacques Hassoun

Book overview

Melancholy (or depression), continues to occupy a cental place in psychoanalytic theory. Hassoun offers here a far-reaching treatise on the true nature and origins of depression, arguing that it is a matter of temperament, not a disease to be cured by Prozac or other drugs. Depression and all addictions are rooted in the same experience: a disruption in the weaning of the child from the mother that results in a profound sadness and an inability to experience loss. This disruption affects every aspect of the melancholiac's life, and is at the core of his damaged existence. Depression may be cured only by understanding the roots of the malady in early childhood. No preview available - 2000 - 105 pages References to this book From other books Personal effects: the social character of scholarly writing‎ by Deborah H. Holdstein, David Bleich Snippet view - 2001 "This river leads to Saturn": the paradoxes of melancholy and political ...‎ by Adam H. Kitzes Snippet view - 2003 All Book Search results » From Google Scholar Post-Traumatic Hermeneutics: Melancholia in the Wake of Trauma Angelika Rauch - 1998 - Diacritics Cultures of Melancholia in Late Capitalism—A Reflection George S Rousseau, Caroline Warman - 2002 - Studies in Gender and Sexuality Discussion of Paper by Warman and Rousseau Jeanne Wolff Bernstein - 2002 - Studies in Gender and Sexuality Figuring Melancholy: From Jean De Meun To Moliere, Via Montaigne ... Dorothée Mertz-Weigel - 2005 All Scholar search results » ACUTLALY QUITE INTERESTING: How sadness survived: the evolutionary basis of depression By Paul Keedwell Title How sadness survived: the evolutionary basis of depression Author Paul Keedwell Edition illustrated Publisher Radcliffe Publishing, 2008 ISBN 1846190134, 978184619013