Testing the Validity of the Neurotic Depression Concept
作者:
DEBBY TSUANG,
GEORGE WINOKUR,
期刊:
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
(OVID Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 180,
issue 7
页码: 446-450
ISSN:0022-3018
年代: 1992
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
We applied an operational definition of neurotic depression to 185 hospitalized patients who met Feighner and DSM-III-R criteria for unipolar depression. Based on a systematic chart review, 37 patients met the criteria for neurotic depression. As a group, these patients differed from nonneurotics in symptoms, clinical course, outcome, and family history. The neurotic depressives were younger and more likely to identify precipitating factors. They were less likely to meet criteria for melancholia and to have delusions. They were more likely to be ill 3 years later and more likely to have familial alcoholism. These differences help to confirm the validity of the neurotic depression concept.
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