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Kritische Lebensereignisse, soziale Unterstützung und Depression

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Depressionskonzepte heute: Psychopathologie oder Pathopsychologie?

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Es handelt sich um eine nicht gerade neue Erkenntnis, daß widrige Lebensumstände mit der Entwicklung und mit dem Verlauf der Depression zusammenhängen. Spätestens seit einer äußerst gelehrsamen, bis in die Gegenwart hinein immer wieder neu aufgelegten Abhandlung Robert Burtons aus dem Jahre 1621 (The Anatomy of Melancholy; 1921; 1977; deutsch: 1988) tritt sie als Hypothese ausdrücklich in Konkurrenz zu den physiologischen Theorien, die in der Medizin dominierten, seitdem Hyppokrates mit seiner Namensschöpfung „Melancholie“ deren Pathophysiologie festgeschrieben hatte.

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Fiedler, P. (1991). Kritische Lebensereignisse, soziale Unterstützung und Depression. In: Mundt, C., Fiedler, P., Lang, H., Kraus, A. (eds) Depressionskonzepte heute: Psychopathologie oder Pathopsychologie?. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76318-2_19

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