American Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: 01 May 1968

Controversies surrounding the distinctions between endogenous and reactive types have characterized the literature on depression. Reviewing seven pertinent factor analytic studies, these authors found sufficient consensus to support the independence of ...

Publication date: 01 May 1968

The author discusses some of the practical considerations confronting the clinician in the treatment of depression, including differential diagnosis and choosing among the various treatment modalities. He feels that the particular antidepressant drug ...

Publication date: 01 May 1968

Although involutional melancholia is described with precision in the classical textbooks of psychiatry and has been maintained in the official nomenclature, it is uncommonly seen in current practice; some doubt has been expressed that it has ever existed ...

Publication date: 01 May 1968

Many depressive syndromes are manifested initially in a masked fashion that belies their presence even though the masking process varies, depending upon such factors as the age of the patient, ethnic background, socio-economic and sociophilosophic milieu, ...

Publication date: 01 May 1968

The authors describe a retrospective study to evaluate ECT and antidepressant drugs in the hospital treatment of depressive disorders. Using the Self-Rating Depression Scale as a measure of severity of illness, they found that patients selected for ECT ...

Publication date: 01 May 1968

Lack of clarity of definition has contributed to the difficulty in studying the phenomena of hysteria and depression. The authors, by devising a reliable measure for the hysterical personality and by using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, have ...

Publication date: 01 May 1968

There are suggestions in the literature on primary affective disorder of an association between the illness and occupational or educational achievement. To test this hypothesis the authors studied 100 patients with primary affective disorder, comparing ...