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The Perimenarche Syndrome (A Proposal)
Author(s) -
Ushijima Sadanobu,
Kobayashi Ryuji
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1988.tb01972.x
Subject(s) - preadolescence , psychology , depression (economics) , menarche , developmental psychology , psychoanalysis , medicine , economics , macroeconomics
We present here two cases with depression and obsessional symptoms, in which the patients were 11–year‐old girls just prior to the advent of menarche. Their clinical picture WM fairly different from the one which Deubsch, H., Jacobson, E. and Blos, P. described in their classical cases 80 far. In our cam the regression to preoedipal level was very prominent, that is, the rapprochement crieis‐Like state (Mahler, M.S.) with transitional objects such M stuffed animals and dolls (Winnicott, D.W.) WM observed. It was believed that with such a background there were changes in the parent‐child relationship in preadolescence which the premature physical growth among recent children had brought about, and changes in the concept of the mother and father which cultural vicissitudes had induced. It was also indicated that this kind of direct observation would contribute not only to the encouragement of the sound development in this period of life, but also the understanding and treatment of adolescent or adult cases.