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The Relationship of Anxiety and Depression: A Review of the Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Chrissoula Stavrakaki  and
Beverley Vargo
Chrissoula Stavrakaki
Affiliation:
Regional Children's Centre, Royal Ottawa, Hospital Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Beverley Vargo*
Affiliation:
Royal Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
*
∗Correspondence
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The nature of the relationship between anxiety and depression has been much debated. The research in the past 15 years is reviewed in the context of three conceptual models: (a) anxiety and depression differ quantitatively; (b) anxiety and depression differ qualitatively; and (c) combined anxiety and depression syndromes (anxious depressions) differ both quantitatively and qualitatively from either pure anxiety or pure depression. The major areas of research—phenomenological, treatment, course and outcome—are considered and findings in support of each position reviewed.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 1 , July 1986 , pp. 7 - 16
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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