Intractable Manic-Depressive Psychosis with Rapid Cycling in an 18-Year-Old Woman Successfully Treated with Electroconvulsive Therapy

1987 ◽  
Vol 175 (4) ◽  
pp. 236-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELVINA BERMAN ◽  
EDWARD A. WOLPERT
Keyword(s):  
Electroconvulsive Therapy ◽  
Rapid Cycling ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive

Electroconvulsive Therapy and Depression

1965 ◽  
Vol 111 (477) ◽  
pp. 682-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mendels
Keyword(s):  
Electroconvulsive Therapy ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive

It is common practice to divide depression into two illnesses: reactive (or neurotic) and endogenous (or manic-depressive psychosis). This dichotomy is a source of extensive argument, and its value is controversial.

Manic-Depressive Psychosis: An Alternative Conceptual Model

1968 ◽  
Vol 114 (517) ◽  
pp. 1523-1530 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H. Court
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Biological Cycle ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive

The traditional concept of manic-depressive psychosis has been either a bi-polar or a circular one, used interchangeably. The psychoanalytic school has invoked the polarity of much of human behaviour as an appropriate analogy. For example “The tragedy is succeeded by the satyr play: after the serious worship of God comes the merry fair… On the same basis the same sequence is represented by the cycle of guilt feelings and unscrupulousness, later by the sequence of guilt feelings and forgiveness…. The manic-depressive cycle is a cycle between periods of increased and decreased guilt feelings: … this cycle, in the last analysis, goes back to the biological cycle of hunger and satiety in the infant” (Fenichel, 1946, p. 409).

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