Dynamic and Interpersonal Theories of Depression

Abstract

present those studies that consider depression as a psychological reaction to major disappointments or losses or to a chronically frustrating environment in which basic emotional needs remain frustrated / this literature will be reviewed in a developmental framework, assuming that the phenomenon of depression is modified in parallel to the increased cognitive and social capacities of the developing child descriptions of depressive states / early childhood / middle and late childhood / adolescence (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)