A depressão em “As faces de Helen”: Contribuições da Psiquiatria para a Psicologia.

Abstract

This article brings about depression and the many ways of your manifestation. Having as a basis the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10), we will take the movie “Helen” (2009) as a illustrative material to analyze the clinical case show by the main character. A woman whose life apparently perfect is shaken by a serious depression breakdown. The depression, knows as “the disease of the century” in our days, in due to her high prevalence in our society, acquires notability in consequence of your gravity and the debilitating effects on the subject. The clinical psychologist has the fundamental paper regarding about the diagnosis quality and treatment, considering that depression can assume many faces and the differential recognition in your many ways of manifestation is important to draw a better therapeutics propose to the subject.