DSM-IV: Melancholic Features Specifier for Mood Disorders
Criteria for Melancholic Features Specifier
(Warning!)Specify if: With Melancholic Features (can be applied to the current or most recent Major Depressive Episode in Major Depressive Disorder and to a Major Depressive Episode in Bipolar I or Bipolar II Disorder only if it is the most recent type of mood episode)
A. Either of the following, occurring during the most severe period of the current episode:
(1) loss of pleasure in all, or almost all, activities
(2) lack of reactivity to usually pleasurable stimuli (does not feel much better, even temporarily, when something good happens)
B. Three (or more) of the following:
(1) distinct quality of depressed mood (i.e., the depressed mood is experienced as distinctly different from the kind of feeling experienced after the death of a loved one)
(2) depression regularly worse in the morning
(3) earlymorning awakening (at least 2 hours before usual time of awakening)
(4) marked psychomotorretardation or agitation
(5) significant anorexia or weight loss
(6) excessive or inappropriate guilt
Based on the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition APA
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| Topic | CBH / CBT
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| Topic | CBT / COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
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| Topic | CBT / COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
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| Topic | CBT / COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
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| Topic | CBT / COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
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| Topic | CBT / COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
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| Topic | COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL HYPNOTHERAPY
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| Topic | COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL HYPNOTHERAPY
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| Topic | COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL HYPNOTHERAPY
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| Topic | COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL HYPNOTHERAPY
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| Topic | DEPRESSION
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| Topic | DEPRESSION
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| Topic | DEPRESSION
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| Topic | EGO STATE THERAPY
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| Topic | EGO STATE THERAPY
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| Topic | HYPNOTHERAPY MISC
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| Topic | HYPNOTHERAPY MISC
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| Topic | HYPNOTHERAPY MISC
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| Topic | HYPNOTHERAPY MISC
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| Topic | HYPNOTHERAPY MISC
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| Topic | HYPNOTHERAPY RESEARCH MISC
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| Topic | PANIC ATTACKS AND PANIC DISORDER
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| Reference | Yapko M (1989) Brief Therapy Approaches to Treating Anxiety and Depression Brunner-Mazel
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| Topic | PSYCHOANALYSIS
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| Topic | THE BRAIDING PROCESS
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