Recurrent Psychotic Depression Is Treatable by Psychoanalytic Therapy Without Medication From: Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright Springer Publishing Company Spring 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Psychotic depression is best treated by psychotherapy without medication. If medication is used it should be withdrawn as the patient can tolerate it. Every affect, including depression, has meaning. Depressed patients may feel sad, frightened, angry, undifferentiated negative affect, or no feelings at all. How to deal with sleep disturbances and with suicidal danger is discussed. Several clinical cases are discussed, including a man who was "cured" of depression with insulin coma treatment in his 20s and was rehospitalized nearly every year thereafter for depression. He also suffered from ...

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