Toward the Biology of the Depressive Constellation

Psychoanalytical Explorations of Emotional Correlates of Cancer of the Breast

“…It may also be that the therapists' anxiety over working with cancer patients led to an unconscious selection of VOL XXV, NO. 2,1963 107 certain types of women among the Tumor Institute subjects. The personality factors operative in the group refusing and in the group accepting psychotherapy can be elucidated only by further research.…”

“…XXV, NO. 2,1963 109 reaction. She attempted suicide on three occasions, each time after some demonstration of love on the part of one of the captured trio.…”

“…XXV, NO. 2,1963 113 balance between seductiveness toward older men and guilt-ridden physical and, or psychic pain.…”

“…The pattern of caring for VOL XXV, NO. 2,1963 119 the needs of others rather than their own gradually assumed a coloring of superficial cheerfulness and pleasantness. It furthermore tended to increase the underlying oral frustration and thus the oral needs.…”

“…In this pa-VOL XXV, NO. 2,1963 121 tient the overwhelming drive toward maternity produced a partial picture of pseudocyesis. One wonders whether a sustained, conflictful, psychopathological drive toward pregnancy frustrated by infertility may be part of the hormonal disturbance in a developing cancer of the breast.…”