COMPLICATED GRIEF AND MOOD DISORDERS - A COMPARATIVE-STUDY BETWEEN 69PSYCHIATRIC-INPATIENTS AND 29 CONTROLS

Citation
M. Bourgeois et al., COMPLICATED GRIEF AND MOOD DISORDERS - A COMPARATIVE-STUDY BETWEEN 69PSYCHIATRIC-INPATIENTS AND 29 CONTROLS, Annales medico-psychologiques, 155(2), 1997, pp. 135-141
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychology
ISSN journal
00034487
Volume
155
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
135 - 141
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-4487(1997)155:2<135:CGAMD->2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
69 psychiatric inpatients hospitalized for depression and 29 controls of the general population are compared. All had previously experienced at least one bereavement. The depressed patients had experienced a gr eater number of losses, had more often lost a first degree parent. Alm ost half of them suffered from a complicated grief However the depress ed patients having unresolved grief as well as those having terminated their grief have equal depression intensity and similar therapeutic r esponses. Finally, in the control group, there is 25 % of complicated grief which would confirm the reality of '' complicated grief '' as an autonomous clinical entity, often comorbid with depression, but diffe rent Are discussed the relationship between protracted grief and depre ssion (reciprocal causality ? depressive revival of forgotten grief ? co-occurrence of depression and complicated grief ?), as well as the u tility and feasibility of prevention and treatment of these complicate d griefs.