title: A contribution from the field of psychodynamics to the controversy over reactive and endogenous depression.
abstract: Comparisons of depressed with non-depressed subjects, and of endogenous depressives with reactive depressives, in respect of the quality and handling of aggression, suggest that endogenous depression is a distinct entity. Reactive depression is seen as essentially indistinguishable from other non-depressed psychiatric states.
mesh_terms: D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000374:Aggression; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011386:Projective Techniques; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory