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GUEDE, Dilcio Dantas; MONTEIRO-LEITNER, Julieta  e  MACHADO, Karine Cardozo Rodrigues. Love breakup, depression and self-esteem: case study. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2008, vol.8, n.3, pp. 603-643. ISSN 1518-6148.

Case study of a young adult's (22) psychotherapy experience during an emotional crisis prompted by the breakup of a love relationship. The psychotherapy process was developed over two hundred sessions with follow up. Data was collected using notes from the sessions, the Coopersmith self-steem inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory and a final questionnaire on depression (DSM-IV). We assumed that the more emotional expressions of acceptance about his psychological condition were affirmed, the higher his self-steem levels would be, and the more autonomous behaviours experienced, the lower the levels of depression he would present. Results indicated that client maintained his responsibility and existential perceptions and improved awareness about his emotional insecurity as well as identifying external reasons for his model of love relationship. Thus, he perceived himself to be in progressive contact with his somatic symptoms, understanding and integrating them into his way of being in the world. Such comprehension and learning increased his sense of responsibility for himself and his own existential projects, authentically integrating them into his psychopathology.

Palavras-chave : brief psychotic trouble; depression; self-steem; breakups; psychotherapy.

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