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The Classification and Treatment of Dysthymia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

D. G. M. Murphy
D. G. M. Murphy*
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Maudsley Hospital, London, currently Visiting Associate, Laboratory of Neurosciences, Building 10, Room 6c414, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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The diagnostic concept and classification of chronic depressions has long been a matter of controversy. Kraepelin (1921) considered chronic depression to be a ‘rudiment’ of fully developed manic-depressive insanity, and this view was shared by Slater & Roth (1969), who cited occasional dramatic improvement in patients with neurasthenic disorder when they received convulsive therapy.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 106 - 109
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