Diagnosis and Classification of Dysthymia
- 1 November 1993
- journal article
- Published by SLACK, Inc. in Psychiatric Annals
- Vol. 23 (11) , 609-616
- https://doi.org/10.3928/0048-5713-19931101-07
Abstract
The concept of dysthymia is an admixture of three older clinical constructs: neurotic depression, depressive personality, and chronic depression.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
- DSM-IV “major depression”: Are more stringent criteria needed?Depression, 1993
- Depressive personality: Reliability, validity, and relation to dysthymia.Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1990
- Symptom criteria and family history in major depressionAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
- A review of the depressive personalityAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
- Primary early-onset dysthymia: Comparison with primary nonbipolar nonchronic major depression on demographic, clinical, familial, personality, and socioenvironmental characteristics and short-term outcome.Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1988
- Dysthymia in the offspring of parents with primary unipolar affective disorder.Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1988
- A critical discussion of DSM-III dysthymic disorderAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1987
- The persistent risk of chronicity in recurrent episodes of nonbipolar major depressive disorder: a prospective follow-upAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1986
- Psychiatric Disorders in the Relatives of Probands With Affective DisordersArchives of General Psychiatry, 1984
- Dysthymic disorder: psychopathology of proposed chronic depressive subtypesAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1983