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PubMed1981

[Evolution of borderline states].

This study presents all the anamnestic, clinical and catamnestic data and information regarding 111 patients diagnosed as Borderline in patients. The research confirms the assertion of various authors concerning the existence, in the daily clinical practice, of a Borderline psychopathological group, distinct and autonomous, comprising patients who present psycho-affectives and social specific features and often manifest typical depressed and psychotic syndromes; the statistical survey shows the heuristic interest of the Borderline diagnostic since several social and cultural as personal and familiar psychopathological variable factors appeared to be determinant in what concerns the psycho-social evolution of these patients.

Adult↗

PubMed1980

[Dynamic aspects of depressive states].

The author introduces his subject by giving a synthetic definition of the depressive states and of the psychoanalytical concept of a depressive personality; a brief reference is made on the subject of precipitating factors and the general psychodynamic consequences found in depressive states. Various clinical and dynamic aspects of depression are then observed, following specific personality structures and more so in borderline patients; the author shows how through a metapsychological approach, a differential diagnosis between melancholia and schizophrenic depression can be made. The author concludes that there is no continuity between the various depressive states; that is to say that if identical psychodynamic processes are in play, the semiological differences are the consequences of the underlying personality structure.

Affective Disorders, Psychotic↗