Minor depression: a minor concept?
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This current article provides a theoretical revision of the minor depression concept, in order to
elucidate the gap and scope of this diagnosis, not yet known at the present. There is a confusion
with it's definition, that can be revealed throught the different meanings in which it is approached,
being even muddled with other clinical descriptions like depression and subsindromal depression. It
is also discussed about the dimensional and categorical dichotomy in approaching the meaning of
depression, in which a logic of continuous tendency appear. In this tendency of hesitating from
euthymia to major depression where minor depression is in both poles. It is suggested intensity
rather quantity of symptoms as a key element for its understanding.
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Revista Argentina de Clínica Psicológica Volumen: 24 Número: 1 Apr 2015
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