DEPRESSION, SUICIDE AND SUICIDAL GESTURE IN MEDICAL PRACTICE
Authors: M H MILLER, C H FELLNER, N S GREENFIELD
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1959)

Article1 July 1959DEPRESSION, SUICIDE AND SUICIDAL GESTURE IN MEDICAL PRACTICEMILTON H. MILLER, M.D., CARL H. FELLNER, M.D., NORMAN S. GREENFIELD, Ph.D.MILTON H. MILLER, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, CARL H. FELLNER, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, NORMAN S. GREENFIELD, Ph.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-51-1-78 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptMental depression affects the organism as a whole. In many ways it is a systemic illness and, like other generalized or systemic illnesses, may manifest itself in widely variable forms. The symptoms of depressed patients are by no means limited to complaints pertaining to mood, ambition, emotional despondency, etc. A depressed patient will often experience change in almost every aspect of his life. His entire world seems different; his future seems different; his body seems different; his bodily functions seem different. The depressed patient frequently presents to his physician any one of a number of somatic complaints as the primary...Bibliography1. National Office of Vital Statistics, Washington, D. C. Google Scholar2. ShagassJones CAL: A neurophysiological test for psychiatric diagnosis: results in 750 patients, Am. J. Psychiat. 114: 1002-1010, 1958. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Shagass C: Sedation threshold: a neurophysical tool for psychosomatic research, Psychosom. Med. 18: 410, 1956. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. FrenchVerzeanoMagoun JDMHW: An extra lemniscal sensory system in the brain, Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 69: 505, 1953. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. Kraines SH: Mental depressions and their treatment, 1957, The Macmillan Company, New York. Google Scholar6. KonigmarkKillamKillam BEKKF: Some central stimulating actions of dimethylaminoethanol in the cat (abstract), J. Pharmacol. and Exper. Therap. 39A: 122, 1958. Google Scholar7. LoomerKline HPNS: Iproniazid and amine-oxidase inhibitors, etc., paper read at Regional Research Conference of American Psychiatric Association, Syracuse, N. Y., April 6, 1957. Google Scholar8. Freud S: Mourning and melancholia, in Collected papers, Vol. IV, 1949, The Hogarth Press, London. Google Scholar9. Abrahams K, in Selected papers on psychoanalysis, Chapter 26, 1953, Basic Books, Inc., New York. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Madison, Wisconsin*Received for publication September 17, 1958.From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Milton H. Miller, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, The University of Wisconsin, Madison 6, Wisconsin. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited bySocial Implications of Psychotropic DrugsIn the guise of organic disease 1 July 1959Volume 51, Issue 1Page: 78-88KeywordsArthritisDepressionEmotionsForecastingHypertensionInsomniaSuicide ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 July 1959 PDF downloadLoading ...