We recently had a lecture that touched on the removal of the bereavement exclusion criteria from the diagnostic criteria for a Major Depressive Episode (MDE).
I have read this blog entry with great interest since I am also preoccupied with the worse excesses of the North-American/Western Culture(s) concerning their intolerance with sadness. Two interesting papers come to my mind. The first one is a brief reflection on the heterogeneity of depression (which leads to another interesting paper by Gordon Parker, also in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Feb 2011) in which the DSM-IV criteria and the unitary model of depression is clearly criticized (the numerical argument is not only academic and worth giving it a read). The paper is titled "The heterogeneity of the depressive syndrome: when numbers get serious" - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Dec 2011. The second paper that comes to my mind is indirectly related to this post but is still related to the issue of adversity and how it is associated to untoward effects (trauma? depression?). The paper has just been published in Current Directions in Psychological Science (Dec 2011). Its title is: Resilience: A silver lining to experiencing adverse life events?. I highly recommend both.
I have read this blog entry with great interest since I am also preoccupied with the worse excesses of the North-American/Western Culture(s) concerning their intolerance with sadness. Two interesting papers come to my mind. The first one is a brief reflection on the heterogeneity of depression (which leads to another interesting paper by Gordon Parker, also in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Feb 2011) in which the DSM-IV criteria and the unitary model of depression is clearly criticized (the numerical argument is not only academic and worth giving it a read). The paper is titled "The heterogeneity of the depressive syndrome: when numbers get serious" - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Dec 2011. The second paper that comes to my mind is indirectly related to this post but is still related to the issue of adversity and how it is associated to untoward effects (trauma? depression?). The paper has just been published in Current Directions in Psychological Science (Dec 2011). Its title is: Resilience: A silver lining to experiencing adverse life events?. I highly recommend both.
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