MINOR DEPRESSION: A MINOR CONCEPT? / LA DEPRESIÓN MENOR: ¿ES UN CONCEPTO MENOR?

This current article provides a theoretical revision of the minor depression concept, in order to elucidate the gap and scope of this diagnosis, not yet known at the present. There is a confusion with it's definition, that can be revealed throught the different meanings in which it is approache...

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Published in:Revista argentina de clínica psicológica 2015-04, Vol.XXIV (I), p.23
Main Authors: Chomalí, Claudia, Espinosa, Claudia, Galdames, Marcela, Marín, Luciana
Format: Article
Language:eng ; spa
Subjects:
Confusion
Crisis intervention
Meaning
Medical diagnosis
Mental depression
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Summary:This current article provides a theoretical revision of the minor depression concept, in order to elucidate the gap and scope of this diagnosis, not yet known at the present. There is a confusion with it's definition, that can be revealed throught the different meanings in which it is approached, being even muddled with other clinical descriptions like depression and subsindromal depression. It is also discussed about the dimensional and categorical dichotomy in approaching the meaning of depression, in which a logic of continuous tendency appear. In this tendency of hesitating from euthymia to major depression where minor depression is in both poles. It is suggested intensity rather quantity of symptoms as a key element for its understanding. En el presente artículo se expone una revisión teórica del concepto de depresión menor, a modo de dilucidar el espacio y los alcances que posee en la actualidad. Existe una confusión en torno a su definición, que se revela en las distintas acepciones con que se la define, siendo incluso solapada con otros cuadros clínicos como depresión subumbral y depresión subsindromal. También se problematiza la dicotomía dimensional – categorial en el abordaje de la depresión, existiendo una tendencia a la lógica del continuo, donde se fluctúa desde eutimia hasta depresión mayor, con la depresión menor entre ambos polos. Se propone la intensidad -y no la cantidad- de síntomas como elemento clave para su comprensión.
ISSN:0327-6716
1851-7951