PSYCH 112: Mood Disorders - Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Aspects

Clinical Deep Dives · Sep 4, 2026 · 41m

Medlock Holmes enters the Hall of Inner Worlds, where three different investigative rooms attempt to explain the same depressed patient.

The first is the Psychodynamic Chamber.

Here, the focus is on what lies beneath conscious experience: loss, unconscious conflict, guilt, anger turned inward, injured self-esteem, and the enduring influence of early relationships.

Freud’s classic account of melancholia proposed that after a painful loss, hostility towards an ambivalently loved person may be redirected towards the self. The patient attacks themselves instead of the lost or disappointing other…