Depressive states in old age

History of Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue 42, 2000, Pages 216-225

  Gaupp, R ^a  

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EID: 0346048118     PISSN: 0957154X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X0001104206     Document Type: Article

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1. The 45 years cut-off may have been chosen in relation to the likely age of onset of the menopause.
2. By periodic I mean 'repetitions in the course of a life due to internal causes'. The term is not altogether apposite but is short and convenient.
3. N of Ts: For information on presbyophrenia see: Berrios, G. E. 'Presbyophrenia: clinical aspects', British Journal of Psychiatry, cxlvii (1985), 76-9; ibid., 'Presbyophrenia: the rise and fall of a concept', Psychological Medicine, xvi (1986), 267-75.
4. N of Ts: For information on presbyophrenia see: Berrios, G. E. 'Presbyophrenia: clinical aspects', British Journal of Psychiatry, cxlvii (1985), 76-9; ibid., 'Presbyophrenia: the rise and fall of a concept', Psychological Medicine, xvi (1986), 267-75.
5. N of Ts: for the history of catatonia and stereotyped movements in psychiatry see chapter 16 in Berrios, G. E., The History of Mental Symptoms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
6. N of Ts: for a history of Kraepelin's 'large diagnostic entities' see: Chapter 10 in Berrios, G. E. and Porter, R. (eds), A History of Clinical Psychiatry (London: Athlone Press, 1995).