Anelasticoendostenia

( Kurt Schneider, Amelia Cordero Villafáfila and Jesús Ramos Brieva)

Anelasticoendostenia is a term coined by the Spanish psychiatrists Jesús Ramos Brieva and Amelia Cordero Villafáfila. It is composed of three Greek roots: "an" (absence, lack of, without) "elastikós" (pushing) "endon" (inner, from inside) and "sthenos" (force). It has the meaning of "absence of the internal force that pushes" [1]

Ramos Brieva and Cordero Villafáfila have proposed this term to replace the one of "vital sadness". This was coined by Kurt Schneider to designate the basic symptom of clinical depressions. As the voice "sadness" evokes a common emotion that has nothing to do with the pathological alterations of the mood, Kurt Schneider adjectived it as vital to indicate that it comes from that stratum of feelings; a strongly embodied stratum.

But Ramos Brieva and Cordero Villafáfila, among other authors, insist that what the depressed clinically diagnosed feel is not sadness but something else, sick, of very different quality. And to avoid misunderstandings they suggest changing the terminology by proposing the anelasticoendostenia voice that better defines the basis of all depression (interior void, without impulse, nor desire to do things or enjoy them) than the voice "sadness." [1] Ramos Brieva JA and Cordero Villafáfila, A: The distinct quality of the depressed mood (and VIII). Review of the concept and a proposal. Proceedings Luso Esp Neurol Psiquiatr Cienc Allies. 19: 31-46, 1991

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