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Familial Classification of Depressive Illnesses

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New Results in Depression Research

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It has become the fashion to use a series of criteria to make a diagnosis in psychiatry. The latest effort in this direction is the DSM-III system (1980) in the United States. The criteria for depression, however, do not define an illness; they simply define a syndrome. This syndrome is seen as a secondary phenomenon (secondary depression) in a number of medical and psychiatric illnesses (Stewart et al. 1965; Winokur 1972).

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA

    G. Winokur

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  1. Psychiatrische Klinik und Poliklinik der Universität München, Nußbaumstraße 7, 8000, München 2, Germany

    Hanns Hippius

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical School, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY, 10605, USA

    Gerald L. Klerman

  3. Psychiatrische Klinik der Universität München, Nußbaumstraße 7, 8000, München 2, Germany

    Norbert Matussek

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Winokur, G. (1986). Familial Classification of Depressive Illnesses. In: Hippius, H., Klerman, G.L., Matussek, N. (eds) New Results in Depression Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70702-5_9

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