Citation

Bisagni F. J. Anal. Psychol. 2022; 67(4): 939-961.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Society of Analytical Psychology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1468-5922.12855

PMID

36165301

Abstract

The paper explores the phenomenology of major depression and suicidal ideation in children, offering a brief overview of relevant findings in psychiatry, with particular reference to statistical evidence, and outlining psychoanalytic models, including Jungian as well as the post-Kleinian and Bionian vertices. Bowlby's seminal contribution to the understanding of mourning processes in relation to Freud's theory is also considered. The case of an eight-year-old boy is examined, with particular attention to a series of drawings that the patient produced over the two years of his psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The therapy was interrupted abruptly by his parents.

Language: en

Keywords

Humans; Child; Male; children; Depression; suicide; Suicidal Ideation; depression; Psychotherapy; Suizid; enfant; dépression; suicidio; depresión; niños; *Jungian Theory; *Psychoanalysis; bambini; child psychoanalytic psychotherapy; depressione; Fantasy; Kinder; Kinderpsychoanalytische Psychotherapie; psicoterapia psicoanalítica de niños; psicoterapia psicoanalitica infantile; psychothérapie psychanalytique de l'enfant; депрессия; дети; детская психоаналитическая психотерапия; суицид; 抑郁症、自杀、儿童、儿童分析性心理治疗