MELANCHOLIA

It is also suggested that the old term melancholia be reused for the psychotic form of agitated depression. This name not only represents a great psychiatric tradition, but also fully conveys the tragic human experience of these patients and bears out a deeply significant fact--that the major psychiatric syndromes have remained unchanged over the course of thousands of years. If they are not disease entities, they surely are what Kraepelin would have called natural realities. AGITATED DEPRESSION AS A MIXED STATE AND THE PROBLEM OF MELANCHOLIA A. Koukopolous, A. Koukopolous. Psychiatric Clinics of North America - Volume 22, Issue 3 (September 1999)  -  Copyright © 1999 W. B. Saunders Company