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Barande provides a historical overview of psychoanalytic theories of melancholia as an introduction to the paper by Torok and Abraham which follows. She emphasizes in particular the contributions of Freud and K. Abraham and contrasts the difficulties in the analysis of melancholia with the problems encountered in neurotic depressions. She suggests that the refractory character of melancholia produces one type of interminable analysis.