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Prognosis in Involutional Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

John L. Cameron ,
D.P.M. Thomas Freeman  and
Ronald A. Y. Stewart
John L. Cameron
Affiliation:
The Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow and Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital
D.P.M. Thomas Freeman
Affiliation:
The Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow and Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital
Ronald A. Y. Stewart
Affiliation:
The Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow and Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital
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Depressive states occurring in the involutional period are among the most common syndromes encountered in psychiatric practice. Since the introduction of electroshock therapy, this has been the treatment of choice for these conditions. Unfortunately not every patient who is treated remains in good health, and every mental hospital has a certain number of chronic involutional depressions who remain refractory to further electroshock therapy.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 100 , Issue 419 , April 1954 , pp. 478 - 490
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1954 

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