Abstract
Clinicians have long suggested that what we call depression really isn’t a single disorder at all. Instead, depression may be a group of disorders that are heterogeneous with respect to symptoms, cause, course, therapy, and prevention (e.g., Beck, 1967; Craighead, 1980; Depue & Monroe, 1978; Gillespie, 1929; Kendall, 1968; Kraepelin, 1913). How can we carve depression at its joints? How can we discover the meaningful but, as yet, unnamed and unidentified forms of psychopathology that are lumped together, and hidden away, in the messy category of depression?
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- Negative Life Event
- Causal Attribution
- Attributional Style
- Dysfunctional Attitude
- Phenylalanine Hydroxylase
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Abramson, L.Y., Alloy, L.B., Metalsky, G.I. (1990). Hopelessness Depression: An Empirical Search For a Theory-Based Subtype. In: Ingram, R.E. (eds) Contemporary Psychological Approaches to Depression. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0649-8_4
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