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By Conrad M. Swartz and Edward Shorter. 327 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. $85. ISBN 978-0-521-87822-7.

Psychotic Depression is not quite a textbook, not quite a monograph on a specific illness, not quite a collection of psychiatric case histories, and not quite a scholarly history — although one of its authors is an accomplished historian of psychopharmacology and the other is a clinical expert on psychotic depression. The book is a mixture of these genres.

The understanding of depression is central to clinical psychiatry, and the interaction of genetic, biochemical, psychosocial, and neurodegenerative causes is still unresolved. The 1970s saw the ascent of "lumpers," who put all types of depression into the category of major depressive . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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