Typus melancholicus from tellenbach up to the present day: A review about the premorbid personality vulnerable to melancholia

Actas Espanolas de Psiquiatria

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 302-311

  Ambrosini, Alessandra ^a   Stanghellini, Giovanni ^a   Langer, Álvaro I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Major depression; Melancholia; Premorbid personality; Typus melancholicus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 82455209513     PISSN: 11399287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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