Melancholic Psychosis—A Lacanian Approach

Psychoanalysis and bioethics: a Lacanian approach to bioethical discourse

This article aims to develop a Lacanian approach to bioethics. Point of departure is the fact that both psychoanalysis and bioethics are practices of language, combining diagnostics with therapy. Subsequently, I will point out how Lacanian linguistics may help us to elucidate the dynamics of both psychoanalytical and bioethical discourse, using the movie One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Soph...

Anhedonia in melancholic and non-melancholic depressive disorders.

BACKGROUND Anhedonia represents a core symptom of major depression and may be a potential marker for melancholia. However, current understanding of this construct in depressive sub-types is limited. METHOD Participants were recruited from the Black Dog Institute (Sydney) and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). Diagnostic groups were derived on the basis of agreement between clinician and...

A Case of Melancholic Stupor (Psychocoma)

Six Cases of Melancholic Stupor

discovered ? while under observation he quickly nassed into' a condition in which he was stated to have lain continually on his back with the eves closed quite motionless except for some twitching of the facial muscles, he never spoke, asked for nothing, and only eat food actually nbioed in his hands, and latterly certainly passed all his excreta where lie lay. These were all the facts received...

Contemporary perspectives on Lacanian theories of psychosis

In contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysis, Verhaeghe's theory of actualpathology psychopathology in psychosis and the Millerian idea of "ordinary psychosis" provide diverging conceptual approaches to psychosis. In this paper, the two approaches to psychosis are examined with a particular emphasis on "mild psychosis" and compensatory mechanisms. Despite the shared focus on similar clinical phenome...