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Mental Disorder: depressive neurosis

This term presumes an etiology based on a psychoanalytic theory but probably applied to persisting mood depression of moderate severity and without psychoticsymptoms, what has been classified as Dysthymic Disorder beginning with DSM-III.

Also: neurotic depression

The online Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders lists most of the major psychological disorders and illnesses and lists the criteria that must be fulfilled in order for a diagnosis to be made. This resource is not a substitute for proper professional psychiatric diagnosis.