Abstract

LOPES, Anchyses Jobim. Mourning and melancholia versus dysthymia. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2009, n.32, pp. 13-22. ISSN 0100-3437.

Abusive use of psychiatrical drugs, mainly concerning depression diagnosis. Use of the international mental and behavior disorder classifications facilitating this abuse. Over simplification of diverse clinical diagnosis under the label of distimy. Cognitive behavioural ideology inducing over medicalization. Psychoanalysis as an opposite therapeutical method and world view. Time, finitude and tragic experience of the life.

Keywords : Treatment of depressions; Over medication; Time and tragic experience.