Depression Subtypes

There is some disagreement about the validity of the constructs, and particularly about the association of anaclitic depression with borderline issues. The research provides mixed evidence.

Blatt and Felsen (1993) provided a good overview of the model itself and the different characteristics associated with it. They presented a model of two different personality styles and psychopathologies that they termed the anaclitic and the introjective.

According to them, the anaclitic style developed from insecure attachment during early childhood and was characterized by feelings of extreme threat on separation from the beloved object in later life. Interpersonal relations were quite disturbed and the individual felt lack of wholeness upon separation.

On the other hand, the introjective style, and psychopathology, was characterized by high standards, extreme selfcriticism and selfblame, and intense internalized guilt a

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