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The Prognosis of Affective Disorders: the Differentiation of Anxiety States from Depressive Illnesses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Kurt Schapira ,
Martin Roth ,
T. A. Kerr  and
Clair Gurney
Kurt Schapira
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP
Martin Roth
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP
T. A. Kerr
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP
Clair Gurney
Affiliation:
Psychological Medicine Research Unit
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That a distinction may be made on clinical grounds between anxiety states and depressive illnesses has been affirmed by some authors (Garmany, 1956, 1958; Stenbäck, 1963), and rejected by others (Mapother, 1926; Conrad, 1958; Ey, 1963; Lewis, 1950–1966). This problem is also of interest from a biological point of view in that anxiety neuroses represent in an exaggerated form an emotion that is ‘directly serviceable’ (Cannon, 1928) and one which has potential survival value for the organism. Moreover, analogous conditions can be reproduced experimentally in animals, while no convincing models have so far been described of states akin to depressive illnesses (McKinney and Bunney, 1969).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 561 , August 1972 , pp. 175 - 181
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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