title: [Chronic depressive syndrome--characteristics and therapeutic possibilities].
abstract: The files of 322 patients with depressive syndromes in the period 1978-1987, covering 413 in-patient treatments, revealed therapeutic factors whose tendency is to lengthen the period of hospitalisation. There is no indication of therapeutic factors with a tendency to reduce the length of time spent in hospital. Lithium treatment was again shown to increase the hospital stay (chronicity of the overall disorder), others being (treatment with/Netofenazat), electric shock treatment during the initial disorder, and optimum simultaneous treatment with thymoleptics.
authors.affiliation: Lehrstuhl Psychiatrie, Bereichs Medizin (Charité), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Umann
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kulawik
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rindtorff
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012008:Recurrence
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs
vernacular_title: Chronifizierte depressive Syndrome--Bedingungsgefüge und Therapiemöglichkeiten.