TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - The Devolution of Melancholia Into Psychosis: The Case of a Child Whose Mother Was Unable to Grieve
JO  - Psychoanalytic review
A1  - Roitman, Yaakov
SP  - 541
EP  - 560
VL  - 104
IS  - 5
N2  - The author explores the intersubjective aspect of the devolution of melancholia into psychosis, particularly as it involves the unconscious intersubjective role of the mother. The author considers the possibility that maternal inability to mourn contributes significantly to the foreclosure of the child's "tertiary processes" (the processes involved in the child's development of a differentiated autonomous self and symbolization). In the clinical case presented in detail in this paper, the child's undifferentiated experience with his mother (who was unable to grieve) left no room for the father as the necessary third element in the child's maturational processes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-2836
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/prev.2017.104.5.541
ID  - ref1
ER  -