The Clinical Spectrum of So-called “Minor” Depressions

Abstract
This selective review of recent clinical research on neurotic depressive and dysthymic disorders observed in psychiatric settings reveals that, far from being “minor,” they typically begin early in life against a familial background loaded with mood disorders, and are often complicated by superimposed major depressive—and even hypomanic—episodes, fluctuating or continued symptomatic chronicity, impaired leisure functions, conjugal conflicts, and even suicide.

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