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The Interpersonal Model

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Models of Depressive Disorders

Part of the book series: The Depressive Illness Series ((DISS,volume 2))

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As is well known, the field of psychiatry is divided into various theoretical schools—biological, psychoanalytic, behavioral, and interpersonal. Following upon the ideas of Kuhn, the author has interpreted these theoretical schools as competing paradigms. These paradigms define alternative approaches for understanding the nature of the mind in relationship to health and illness. Almost all of the paradigms approach the problem of depression in some manner, and differ in the extent to which they regard clinical depression as different from normal depressive mood; in the relative emphasis they give to social, biological, and developmental factors in the causation of mental illness; and even as to the validity of the concept of mental illness itself.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, Westchester Division, White Plains, New York, 10605, USA

    Gerald L. Klerman

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Klerman, G.L. (1989). The Interpersonal Model. In: Mann, J.J. (eds) Models of Depressive Disorders. The Depressive Illness Series, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0831-7_3

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