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Philipp M, Delmo CD, Buller R, et al. Differentiation between major and minor depression. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 1992;106:S75-8doi: 10.1007/BF02246241.
Philipp, M., Delmo, C. D., Buller, R., Schwarze, H., Winter, P., Maier, W., & Benkert, O. (1992). Differentiation between major and minor depression. Psychopharmacology, 106S75-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02246241
Philipp, M, et al. "Differentiation between major and minor depression." Psychopharmacology vol. 106 (1992): S75-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02246241
Philipp M, Delmo CD, Buller R, Schwarze H, Winter P, Maier W, Benkert O. Differentiation between major and minor depression. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 1992;106:S75-8. doi: 10.1007/BF02246241. PMID: 1546147.
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Psychopharmacology (Berl). 1992;106:S75-8. doi: 10.1007/BF02246241.

Differentiation between major and minor depression.

Psychopharmacology

M Philipp, C D Delmo, R Buller, H Schwarze, P Winter, W Maier, O Benkert

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Universität Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany.

PMID: 1546147 DOI: 10.1007/BF02246241

Abstract

Though the concept of Major Depression was generated by clinicians using depressed inpatients as models, a polydiagnostic study in 600 psychiatric inpatients with heterogenous psychological disturbances revealed that all six competing operational definitions of Major Depression (including DSM-III-R and ICD-10) were too restrictive to serve as a general concept of depression. Another polydiagnostic study in 500 primary care outpatients showed that more than two-thirds of all non-chronic depressed cases were below the severity threshold of Major Depression: these patients are classified as Depression Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) by DSM-III-R. Loosening of the over-restrictive time criteria would broaden the concept of Major Depression so as to meet the requirements of a general concept of depression, while the definition of Minor Depression below the threshold of Major Depression would add to a reduction of cases of NOS Depression by more than 80%. For the evaluation of antidepressant drugs in outpatient samples, we propose that patients with these modified definitions of Major and Minor Depression be included, provided they meet a minimum severity criterion of 13 or more points on the Hamilton Depression Scale; four-fifths of the modified Major Depression group and one-third of the Minor Depression group do in fact meet this criterion.

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