[Social change. The climacteric and depression]

We study different socio-environmental factors in relationship with depression in the climacterium. Our sample are women who have been diagnostic of depression and are impatient in the Department of Psychiatry of University Hospital San Carlos. The isolation and the social and familiar changes are the most important events that happen to the women depressive climacteric. The Spanish women in climacteric age have lived in a cultural-educational environment focus toward a maternal role. Because of this her personality has development dependent and submission.