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Modern diagnostic concepts of the affective disorders
1School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum
|September 6, 2003
Abstract
Objective:
To review critically alternative models of depression.
Method:
Contrasting historical models are noted and some results of a study overviewing a temperament-based model for the non-melancholic disorders are presented.
Results:
Limitations to all models are considered.
Conclusion:
As depression can present as a mood state, a syndrome, a disorder and as a disease, it is unwise to assume that a single model will suffice. A pure temperament diathesis model of non-melancholic depression is unlikely to be sufficient and would benefit from testing of additional personality constructs.