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Depression covers a wide range of human, emotional, and clinical states. As a normal mood, depression is ubiquitous in human existence; not to grieve after the loss of a loved one is to make one “less than human.” As a symptom, depression occurs in a wide variety of reactions to stress, medical, and psychiatric conditions. As a clinical state, the various psychiatric syndromes are usually considered along with mania as belonging to the affective disorders.
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Klerman, G.L. (1983). The Scope of Depression. In: Angst, J. (eds) The Origins of Depression: Current Concepts and Approaches. Dahlem Workshop Reports Life Sciences Research Report, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69129-4_2
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