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Human depressive suffering

| November 6, 2025 | 84 minutes
In collaboration with Le Carnet Psy

Among all forms of psychological suffering, depression is both the most widespread and the hardest to pin down. It cuts across all walks of life, interfering in all spheres of life, to the point of becoming a sign of the times. But its origins remain uncertain: between biological hypothesis, social factors and existential precariousness, at bottom, what is depression?


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Pascal-Henri Keller is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology at the University of Poitiers, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and a member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris. He is notably the author of the "Que sais-je?" on La Dépression (Presses Universitaires de France, 2023).


References to studies mentioned by author Pascal-Henri Keller during the meeting are available here.

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