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Crying in Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

David Davis ,
Joseph Lamberti  and
Zaki A. Ajans
David Davis
Affiliation:
The Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri
Joseph Lamberti
Affiliation:
The Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri
Zaki A. Ajans
Affiliation:
The Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri
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In making a diagnosis between psychotic and neurotic depression, characteristic signs and symptoms are usually looked for. Although there is much controversy in the literature in respect to this difference, particularly since Lewis's work in 1934, nevertheless one commonly observes that when people are sad they cry. We would expect, therefore, that this would apply also in depressions. Yet, in our survey of the journal literature and such major textbooks as Mayer-Gross, Slater and Roth's Clinical Psychiatry, Arieti's American Handbook of Psychiatry, and Freedman & Kaplan's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, the authors fail to include crying as a symptom of depression.

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Short Papers
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 522 , May 1969 , pp. 597 - 598
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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