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Sep 14, 2024 · Let’s explore how different schools of thought in psychology approach melancholia. The psychoanalytic perspective, pioneered by Sigmund Freud, views melancholia as a response to loss – not necessarily of a person, but potentially of an ideal or a part of oneself.
Jan 1, 2015 · Piaget had studied Freud’s work and created his own human development theory based on cognitive growth in fixed stages. Like Freud, Piaget’s work is still followed and studied by psychologists today.
Jul 24, 2008 · This paper draws attention to consistencies between physiological processes identified by modern clinical research and psychological processes described by Freud, with a special emphasis on his famous paper on depression entitled 'Mourning and melancholia'.
- Robin L Carhart-Harris, Helen S Mayberg, Andrea L Malizia, David Nutt
- 10.1186/1744-859X-7-9
- 2008
- Ann Gen Psychiatry. 2008; 7: 9.
May 1, 2020 · In this paper, which he called Mourning and Melancholia, Freud posits that there are two different kinds of responses to loss, called (you guessed it!) mourning and melancholia. Both responses look similar as far as mood or expression, because they both deal in grief .
Aug 22, 2023 · With “Mourning and Melancholia,” Freud, then, explores more fully a relationship he has mentioned in 1897 (in the context of the desire for parental death and the subsequent self-reproach when it occurs), considered more as early as 1910 (in the context of adolescent suicide and secondary schools), and had discussed with Karl Abraham ...
- Ranjana Khanna
- rkhanna@duke.edu
In his 1917 essay “Mourning and Melancholy”, Freud recognizes two mutually exclusive responses to loss — mourning [Trauer] and melancholia [Melancholie].
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In melancholia, a person grieves for a loss they are unable to fully comprehend or identify, and thus this process takes place in the unconscious mind. Mourning is considered a healthy and natural process of grieving a loss, while melancholia is considered pathological.
