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Affective Disorder Taxonomies in Middle-aged Females

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Robert J. Daly  and
Carl M. Cochrane
Robert J. Daly
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10
Carl M. Cochrane
Affiliation:
Behavioral Sciences Center and Department of Psychiatry, The Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27103; Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Extract

The literature on involutional psychiatric disorder, as on depressive diagnoses in general, is quite controversial. Since middle-aged women form a significant proportion of medical as well as psychiatric patients, it would seem useful to examine diagnoses within this group.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 515 , October 1968 , pp. 1295 - 1297
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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