[Psychological study of the dysthymic disorder in the woman].

In this article, we study two dysthymic women who we are treating with psychotherapy in order to reveal the inner components that maintain depressive symptoms. The same findings have been confirmed in other dysthymic patients. The result of the study consisted in discovering a sentimental separation from their love object, while the woman still lives with her partner and while the depressive symptoms are appearing insidiously. This development leads them to the deterioration in the “ideal of love” they sought, that supported their lives and served as an “anchor of their personality. This point of view places classic notion about mourning into doubt.