Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy as a Treatment for Depression in Adolescents: A Case Study

Pilios-Dimitris Stavrou ()

Global Journal of Social Sciences Studies, 2018, vol. 4, issue 2, 91-101

Abstract: The present article is an in-depth analysis of the use of psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a therapeutic tool for depression in an adolescent suffering from depressive symptoms. Drawing from psychoanalytic theories on object relations, transitional space and object, transference and countertransference, psychoanalytic psychotherapy is employed as a treatment for depression and the therapeutic relationship is examined as the space that allows for an improvement on the adolescent's emotional state and well-being. The effects of therapy are analysed using phenomenology as a theoretical approach and are demonstrated here through the use of thematic analysis, which provides a detailed examination of the adolescent’s symptomatology prior and later the beginning of therapy.

Keywords: Depression; Adolescence; Psychoanalytic psychotherapy; Phenomenology; Case study; Thematic analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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