Theoretical basis for the fMRI task used in MODE
depressed, trauma
Chronically depressed patients need to experience an intensive, professional, reliable, holding, and containing therapeutic relationship in order to both regain confidence in a "helping object" in the form of the therapist and develop a basic feeling of self-agency. According to psychoanalytic theory, severe early life trauma produces a defensive withdrawal of the self from outside objects into a depressed inner world. Metaphorically speaking, the self is encapsulated in an inner crypt [