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Love and Depression: The Nature of Depressive Romantic Relationships

1991; Guilford Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1521/jscp.1991.10.1.75

1943-2771

Veronica Fiske, Christopher Peterson,

Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

For years depression has been regarded as an intrapsychic phenomenon. Recently, however, Coyne (1976) has redirected attention to the social world of depressives and mustered support for the idea that depressives have unpleasant, difficult interactions with other people. Perhaps it is timely to examine the early theory of depression proposed by Sandor Rado (1928), who characterized depression as "the great despairing cry of love" and proposed that the disorder was reflected in particular attitudes to love objects (partners). He specifically hypothesized that depressives were dependent, self-sacrificing, angry, and unrealistic in their intimate relationships. These hypotheses were strongly confirmed when 71 young adults, either high or low in depressive symptoms, responded to a questionnaire asking them to describe their past romantic relationships.