title: Melancholia: from DSM-III to DSM-III-R.
abstract: On July 26, 1985, an ad hoc committee appointed by the APA Work Group to Revise DSM-III met and reviewed the research on the validity of the DSM-III criteria for melancholia. In this paper the proceedings of the meeting are related. After reviewing studies of the validity of the DSM-III melancholia criteria, the authors describe the committee's discussion of alternative proposals for DSM-III-R and the process of developing the new DSM-III-R criteria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Spitzer
mesh_terms: D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D011594:Psychometrics; D012307:Risk Factors