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Modern diagnostic concepts of the affective disorders
Author(s) -
Parker G.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1034/j.1600-0447.108.s418.6.x
Subject(s) - diathesis , temperament , depression (economics) , psychology , mood disorders , personality disorders , mood , personality , clinical psychology , typology , melancholic depression , psychiatry , psychotherapist , melancholia , medicine , anxiety , psychoanalysis , economics , immunology , macroeconomics , history , archaeology
Objective: To review critically alternative models of depression. Method: Contrasting historical models are noted and some results of a study overviewing a temperament‐based model for the non‐melancholic disorders are presented. Results: Limitations to all models are considered. Conclusion: As depression can present as a mood state, a syndrome, a disorder and as a disease, it is unwise to assume that a single model will suffice. A pure temperament diathesis model of non‐melancholic depression is unlikely to be sufficient and would benefit from testing of additional personality constructs.