Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical, cultural and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited in order to facilitate properly psychoanalytical clinical practice.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of contributors
Introduction: The failings of depression - A Lacanian orientation
Derek Hook and Stijn Vanheule
- Depression reconsidered: The well-spoken, neurotic conflicts, and desire
Stephanie Swales
- In between the signifier and the Real: On depressive experiences
Stijn Vanheule
- Forgetting and remembering
Russell Grigg
- Some thoughts on Mourning and Melancholia
Darian Leader
- Conceptualizing and treating (manic-depressive) psychosis: A Lacanian perspective
Stijn Vanheule
- Maneuvers of transference in psychosis: A case study of melancholia from a Lacanian perspective
Joachim Cauwe and Stijn Vanheule
- The complex of melancholia
Derek Hook
- Susan Stern: Sham
Geneviève Morel
- Excessive creativity in melancholia
Leon S. Brenner
- Dressing up the death drive: Mourning as a defense against melancholia
Jamieson Webster and Patricia Gherovici
- The specificity of manic-depressive psychosis
Darian Leader
- Depression screening as the latest avatar of moralism in American public health
Thomas Svolos
