Lawlor, Clark (2012): From Melancholia to Prozac.
A History of Depression. Oxford, UK (etc.):
The Oxford University Press. - xi + 265 p.
Lawlor (p. 164) tuo esiin, että RDC:ssä (1978; Research Diagnostic Criteria) oireiden kuukauden läsnäolo
lyhennettiin kahteen viikkoon - ilman selityksiä. - Tämä sitten jäi DSM-III:een (1980) etc.
Diagnostic Criteria for Use in Psychiatric Research http://www.scalesandmeasures.net/files/ ... P_1972.pdf (7 p.)
John P. Feighner, MD ; Eli Robins, MD ; Samuel B. Guze, MD; Robert A. Woodruff, Jr., MD;
George Winokur, MD; and Rodrigo Munos, MD, St. Louis
Arch Gen Psychiat/Vol 25, Jan 1972 (pp. 57 - 63)
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Diagnostic Criteria (p. 58)
Primary Affective Disorders.
- Depression. - For a diagnosis of depression, A through C are required.
A. Dysphoric mood characterized by symptoms such a s the following: depressed, sad, blue, despondent, hopeless, "down in the dumps," irritable, fearful, worried, or discouraged.
B. At least five of the following criteria are required for "definite" depression; four are required for "probable" depression.
(1) Poor appetite or weight loss (positive if 2 lb a week or 10 Ib or more a year when not dieting).
(2) Sleep difficulty (include insomnia or hypersomnia).
(3) Loss of energy, eg, fatigability, tiredness.
(4) Agitation or retardation.
(5) Loss of interest in usual activities, or decrease in sexual drive.
(6) Feelings of self-reproach or guilt (either may be delusional).
(7) Complaints of or actually diminished ability to think or concentrate, such a s slow thinking or mixed-up thoughts.
(8) Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide, including thoughts of wishing to be dead.
C. A psychiatric illness lasting at least one month with no preexisting psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, anxiety neurosis, phobic neurosis, obsessive compulsive neurosis, hysteria, alcoholism, drug dependency, antisocial personality, homosexuality and other sexual deviations, mental retardation, or organic brain syndrome. (Patients with life-threatening or incapacitating medical illness preceding and paralleling the depression do not receive the diagnosis of primary depression.)
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