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The Clinical Course of Primary Recurrent Depression in Pharmacologically Treated Female Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Tamara Kolakowska*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Littlemore Hospital Research Unit, Oxford, OX4 4XN

Extract

The main questions of diagnosis and classification of depressive illness put forward by Sir Aubrey Lewis in the 30's are still under discussion. Despite the many published clinical studies of affective illness, there remain—as recently stressed by Klerman (1971)—problems requiring further description and investigation.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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