mental disorder: depressive neurosis

This term presumes an etiology based on a psychoanalytic theory but probably applied to persisting mood depression of moderate severity and without psychotic symptoms, what has been classified as Dysthymic Disorder beginning with DSM-III.

Also: neurotic depression

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