TY - JOUR
T1 - Neurotic depressions
T2 - A systematic analysis of multiple criteria and meanings
AU - Klerman, G. L.
AU - Endicott, J.
AU - Spitzer, R.
AU - Hirschfeld, R. M.A.
PY - 1979
Y1 - 1979
N2 - Neurotic depression, the most commonly used psychiatric diagnosis, has multiple meanings that are often used interchangeably in clinical practice. The authors identify six different meanings of neurotic depression and present data from a study of 90 depressed inpatients to determine how many patients met several different criteria; 16 patients met four sets of criteria. The overlap that exists between the different meanings is higher than chance alone but not sufficiently high to allow complete interchangeability. Until new diagnostic classes are developed, the authors recommend that the term 'neurotic depression' no longer be used clinically because of its vagueness.
AB - Neurotic depression, the most commonly used psychiatric diagnosis, has multiple meanings that are often used interchangeably in clinical practice. The authors identify six different meanings of neurotic depression and present data from a study of 90 depressed inpatients to determine how many patients met several different criteria; 16 patients met four sets of criteria. The overlap that exists between the different meanings is higher than chance alone but not sufficiently high to allow complete interchangeability. Until new diagnostic classes are developed, the authors recommend that the term 'neurotic depression' no longer be used clinically because of its vagueness.
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U2 - 10.1176/ajp.136.1.57
DO - 10.1176/ajp.136.1.57
M3 - Article
C2 - 758829
AN - SCOPUS:0018380807
SN - 0002-953X
VL - 136
SP - 57
EP - 61
JO - American Journal of Psychiatry
JF - American Journal of Psychiatry
IS - 1
ER -