Volume 24, Issue 1
Minor depression: a minor concept?
Abstract
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.
Keywords
minor depression, subsyndromal depression, subthreshold depression, categorial and dimensional diagnosis of depression