tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Mourning and melancholia revisited: correspondences between principles of Freudian metapsychology and empirical findings in neuropsychiatry"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Mourning and melancholia revisited: correspondences between principles of Freudian metapsychology and empirical findings in neuropsychiatry. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Open Access Review Mourning and melancholia revisited correspondences between principles of Freudian metapsychology and empirical findings in neuropsychiatry Robin L Carhart-Harris 1 Helen S Mayberg2 Andrea L Malizia1 and David Nutt1 Address 1Psychopharmacology Unit University of Bristol Bristol UK and 2Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta GA 30322 USA Email Robin L Carhart-Harris - Helen S Mayberg - hmayber@ Andrea L Malizia - David Nutt - Corresponding author Published 24 July 2008 Received 2 February 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008 7 9 doi 1744-859X-7-9 Accepted 24 July 2008 This article is available from http content 7 1 9 2008 Carhart-Harris et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Freud began his career as a neurologist studying the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system but it was his later work in psychology that would secure his place in history. 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 . Inspired by neuroimaging findings in depression and deep brain stimulation for treatment resistant depression some preliminary physiological correlates are proposed for a number of key psychoanalytic processes. Specifically activation of the subgenual cingulate is discussed in relation to repression and the default mode network is discussed in relation to the ego. If these correlates are found to be .