Mourning and Melancholia : Intractable Depression A new approach

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Mourning and Melancholia revisited: A new approach to Intractable Depression
Emeritus Professor Russell Meares

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My aim, in this brief talk, is to suggest that a major form of intractable depression may be approached by using the fundamental ideas in Freud's seminal essay or a different way may lead to considerable benefit in a group of patients at risk for a permanent kind of disablement, or partial disablement.

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Recorded: Sydney Australia 2008

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	Mourning and Melancholia revisted a new approach to intractable depression	Russell Meares	56'52
	Mourning and Melancholia revisited: A new approach to Intractable Depression	Russell Meares

Emeritus Professor Russell Meares

Russell Meares is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Sydney University and Director of Mental Health Sciences at Westmead Hospital in Sydney.

- Trained at Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals, 1963 -1968, co-founding with Robert Hobson the Conversational Model of psychotherapy.

- Founder of the academic department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, at the Austin Hospital 1969.

- Foundation Chair of Psychiatry of Sydney University at Westmead Hospital, 1981, Foundation President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy in 1989.

His most recent books are: “Intimacy and Alienation”, 2000; “Metaphor of Play”, revised and enlarged edition, 2005. Awarded Distinguished Psychiatrist of the Year, at UCLA, 2007 and the RANZCP NSW Branch, Meritorious Service Award, 2009.

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