Dissociative Depression is Resistant to Treatment - As - Usual

As it occurs for schizophrenia, former subtypes of depressive disorder such as endogenous, reactive, neurotic, retarded, agitated, and anxious types lost their popularities over years. Major depression representing the full picture of depressive disorder and the disthymic disorder as milder and rather chronic types of the latter have been introduced to replace previous ones. However, albeit the rather vague concept of disthymic disorder, not all “major” depression is the same. In fact, depression can occur as the final common pathway of several psychiatric disorders. This paper is concerned with one potential subtype of depressive disorder which has been proposed by the author: “dissociative depression” [1,2].