Sociotherapy and depression

Abstract

Every depression is accompanied or preceded by a series of internal or external losses. They determine a situation of loneliness, sometimes material and always psychological and relational. It is therefore important to consider beyond pharmaco-therapy and psychotherapy the application of a sociotherapy including: a material and emotional help in the social sphere practical life and hygiene advises the creation of feed-backs by using interactions caused by the patient's participation to therapeutical groups.