Depression: The Shroud of Heterogeneity

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 227-231

  Monroe, Scott M ^a   Anderson, Samantha F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

classification; depression; diagnosis; heterogeneity; psychological disorders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930895440     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721414568342     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Borsboom D.,Cramer A. O. J.An interesting article that introduces an alternative way to conceptualize the interrelations of signs, symptoms, and syndromes. 2013;:
2. Horwitz A. V.,Wakefield J. C.A book whose authors provide an in-depth and careful analysis of the challenges involved in distinguishing responses to adversity and understandable unhappiness from the disorder of major depression. 2007;:
3. Kramer P. D.An insightful and very readable account of the destructive biological aspects of depression. 2005;:
4. Monroe S. M.,Harkness K. L.A review article that makes the case that the likelihood of recurrence of major depression has been overestimated and that the emphasis on the recurrent forms of depression has overshadowed the substantial number of people who have only one episode over the life course. 2011;:
5. Wakefield J. C.,Schmitz M. F.A recent empirical study that demonstrates the potential for distinguishing subtypes of depression that have very different clinical implications over the life course. 2014;:
6. Akiskal H. S.,McKinney W. T.Overview of recent research in depression: Integration of ten conceptual models into a comprehensive clinical frame.Archives of General Psychiatry. 1975;32:285-305
7. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 1980. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.Washington, DC: Author; 1980:
8. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 2013. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing; 2013:
9. Berrios G. E.Melancholia and depression during the 19th century: A conceptual history.British Journal of Psychiatry. 1988;153:298-304
10. Borsboom D.,Cramer A. O. J.Network analysis: An integrative approach to the structure of psychopathology.Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. 2013;9:91-121
11. Bronowski J.The common sense of science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1978:
12. Cole J.,McGuffin P.,Farmer A. E.The classification of depression: Are we still confused?.The British Journal of Psychiatry. 2008;192:83-85
13. Cuthbert B. N.,Kozak M. J.Constructing constructs for psychopathology: The NIMH research domain criteria.Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 2013;122:928-937
14. Healy D.The antidepressant era. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1997:
15. Hirshbein L. D.American melancholy: Constructions of depression in the twentieth century. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press; 2009:
16. Horwitz A. V.,Wakefield J. C.The loss of sadness: How psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2007:
17. Jackson S. W.Melancholia and depression. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; 1986:
18. Kramer P. D.Against depression. New York, NY: Viking; 2005:
19. Mirowsky J.,Ross C. E.Psychiatric diagnosis as reified measurement.Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 1989;30:11-25
20. Moffitt T. E.,Caspi A.,Taylor A.,Kokaua J.,Milne B. J.,Polanczyk G.,Poulton R.How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence rates are doubled by prospective versus retrospective ascertainment.Psychological Medicine. 2010;40:899-909
21. Monroe S. M.,Harkness K. L.Recurrence in major depression: A conceptual analysis.Psychological Review. 2011;118:655-674
22. Parker G.Is major depression that major?.Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 2014;129:458-459
23. Schuster D. G.Neurasthenic nation: America’s search for health, happiness, and comfort, 1869-1920. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press; 2011:
24. Syndrome. (n.d.). In The Oxford English dictionary (2nd ed.). Retrieved from http://eresources.library.nd.edu/databases/oed
25. Wakefield J. C.,Schmitz M. F.Predictive validation of single-episode uncomplicated depression as a benign subtype of unipolar major depression.Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 2014;129:445-457
26. World Health Organization. (2012, October). Depression fact sheet. Retrieved from http:// http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs369/en/