[Personality structure in depression]

A catamnestic study has been carried out on 45 patients, who had presented "major affective disturbances" according to the DSM III classification, for the purpose of evaluating various features of depressive disease. It is deduced that the depressed personality is not without changes even in the interval period: these are partly attributable to a residual syndrome, in part they are practically constant constituents of the personality of the endogenous depressed.