PMID: 2485624Jan 1, 1989Paper

A rare and little-known method of elaborating the loss of the object in melancholia

Acta psychiatrica Belgica
G Mapelli

Abstract

The author presents a fully detailed report of the observation of two economically secure young women who were caught shop-lifting in a large department store; one woman was apprehended while suffering from depression, the other was caught just prior to the onset of a depressive episode. It is hoped that the details referred here may contribute to the insufficient data published on this subject up to the present. It is important to note that the thefts committed by these patients show the typical characteristics of "impulsive behavior". Furthermore, the impulse to steal may appear in various psychiatric conditions. Therefore, the author first considered the hypothesis that these thefts may have been computed during an acute dysthymic psychosis. Epilepsy was ruled out in both cases based on anamnestic data, electroencephalographic findings and, even after the administration of a pharmacological trigger, no epileptic symptoms appeared. These negative results prompted the author to propose a psychosemeiogenetic rapport between the depressive conditions and the thefts. Considering basic information regarding the psychodynamic of impulsive behavior in general, and that manifested in the course of melancholia in particular, the autho...Continue Reading

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