title: Clinical features and classification of symptoms in depression.
abstract: The typical depressed patient is described as well as the course of the depression. Recommendations for the physician, treating depressed patients, are given. There are two main groups of depressions--endogenous depression and reactive depression--which are explained. Depression is a syndrome with "seven principal dimensions". The depressive syndrome is always a serious condition, reacting to suicidal behaviour, which is the greatest of psychiatric emergencies.
mesh_terms: D003863:Depression / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D011596:Psychomotor Disorders / Q000209:etiology