Is context everything to the definition of clinical depression? A test of the Horwitz and Wakefield postulate

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1034-1038

  Parker, G ^a,b   Fletcher, K ^a,b   Hadzi Pavlovic, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b BLACK DOG INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depression; Endogenous; Melancholia; Prototypic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARENT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; STRESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84857358511     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.11.021     Document Type: Article

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