A clinico-psychopathological study of 85 patients with protracted endogenous depressions permitted to distinguish 7 main syndromological types: melancholic, adynamic, dysphoric, anesthetical, anxious, cenestho-hypochondriacal and a complex type of depressive disorders with hallucinatory, delusional and catatonic disturbances. The first 5 types were characterized by syndromological simplicity and could be qualified as monomorphic. The latter 2 types of depressions had a complex structure with profound positive disorders and pronounced polymorphism, which in some cases had a clinical picture of a major syndrome.
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