An empirically derived approach to the classification and diagnosis of mood disorders

World Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 172-180

  Westen, Drew ^a   Malone, Johanna C ^b   DeFife, Jared A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Dimensional diagnosis; Mood disorders; Prototype matching; Suicidality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868103426     PISSN: 17238617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2051-5545.2012.tb00127.x     Document Type: Article

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