title: Women, depression, and biological psychiatry: implications for psychiatric nursing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The belief that taking medicine alone will eradicate depression can increase feelings of helplessness and dependence in depressed women, and deprive them of the opportunity to explore interpersonal reasons for the depression.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To examine the impact on depressed women of a purely biological approach to depression
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical work with depressed women and review of related literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In a depressed woman who has a history of passive behavior, a purely biological approach has poor long-term effects.
authors.affiliation: Partial Hospitalization Program, Akron General Medical Center, OH, USA.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Heifner
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001689:Biological Psychiatry; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012307:Risk Factors; D016387:Women's Health