Interpersonal psychotherapy for comorbid prolonged grief disorder and persistent depressive disorder in a Japanese patient: A case report
Takuya Okami, Yuko Toshishige, Masaki Kondo, Junya Okazaki, Hiroko Mizushima, Tatsuo Akechi · 2023
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Takuya Okami and co-authors present a 2023 case report on talk therapy for long grief paired with lasting depression. Prolonged grief disorder is a new diagnosis, and set care for it is still lacking. A Japanese woman of 27 lost her brother to suicide and grieved in silence for years. Work stress later drove deep low mood, and a clinic found both grief disorder and depression in her case.
Drug care lifted the depression but left the grief untouched. She then began interpersonal psychotherapy, a talk method that works through ties and loss. Teaching on her lasting depression helped her name trait-like symptoms as illness, not self. She learned to own and share her feelings, and her bonds and interests rebuilt. Both disorders eased. The case backs a trial of the method for mixed grief.
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| CREATOR | Takuya Okami, Yuko Toshishige, Masaki Kondo, Junya Okazaki, Hiroko Mizushima, Tatsuo Akechi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |