On the Milder Affective Disorders
Authors: LEWELLYS F. BARKER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1929)

Article1 September 1929On the Milder Affective Disorders(Sometimes Unrecognized or Misinterpreted by the General Practitioner)*LEWELLYS F. BARKER, M.D.LEWELLYS F. BARKER, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-3-3-199 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptBy affective disorders, I mean pathological disturbances of the feeling-tone, the mood, and the emotional life of patients. There are many varieties of these disorders, but I shall limit my discussion at this time to the milder depressions and the milder elations that are often observable in patients of the so-called cyclothymic or elative-depressive constitution. Though such affective disorders are usually easily recognizable by practitioners who have been trained in neuropsychiatry, they are undoubtedly often overlooked or entirely misunderstood by physicians and surgeons who have had but little experience in the study of abnormal mental states. An outspoken depression or...Selected References BARKER LF: Examination of the mental state; elementary psychiatric methods. In: Clinical Diagnosis of Internal Diseases, N. Y., 1916, iii, 284-327. Also:—On the understanding and practical management of nervous patients, particularly of the nervous woman. Bull. N. Y. Acad. Med., 1925. Also:—Treatment of psychoneuroses and of the milder forms of psychoses. Internat. Clin., Phila., 1925, i, 13-30. Google Scholar BLEULER E: Textbook of psychiatry (Engl. Transl. by A. A. Brill), N. Y., 1924, 635 pp. Google Scholar BONDPARTRIDGE EDGE: Interpretations of manic-depressive phases. Am. J. Psychiat., Balt., 1924-5, iv, 643-662. Google Scholar CAMPBELL CM: Two cases illustrating combination of affective and schizophrenic symptoms. Am. J. Psychiat., Balt., 1926, vi, 243-257. CrossrefGoogle Scholar FRIEDMANN B: Aggressive characteristics as expression of atypical depressive mental reactions. Ztschr. f. d. ges. Neurol. & Psychiat., 1928, cxv, 510-515. CrossrefGoogle Scholar HENDERSONGILLESPIE DKRD: A textbook of psychiatry for students and practitioners. Oxford, 1927, 520 pp. Google Scholar LANGE J: Die endogenen und reaktiven Gemutserkrankungen und die manisch-depressive Konstitution. In: Hdb. d. Geisteskrankh. (Bumke), 1928, vi, Teil 2, 1-231. Google Scholar LORD JR: The clinical study of mental disorders. London, 1926 (Adlard & Son), 82 pp. Google Scholar MEYER A: The aims and meanings of psychiatric diagnosis. Am. J. Insan., Balt., 1917-18, lxxiv, 163-168. Google Scholar SCHNEIDER K: Die abnormen seelischen Reaktionen. In: Hdb. d. Psychiat., Spez. Tl., Abt. 7, Tl. 2, Berl., 1926, 43 pp. Google Scholar STRANSKY E: Die leichteren Formen der Geisteskrankheiten in der aerztlichen Praxis. Wien. med. Wchnschr., 1921, lxxi, 85; 153. Google Scholar STRANSKY E: Das manisch-depressive Irressein, Leipz. u Wien, 1911, 272 pp. Google Scholar STONER WC: Psychic factor in diagnosis and treatment of disease from the standpoint of the internist. Ohio State M. J., 1928, xxiv, 697-701. Google Scholar STRECKEREBAUGH EAFG: Practical clinical psychiatry, Phila., 1925. Google Scholar WEXBERG E: Relation of constitution to pathogenesis of various types of depression, Ztschr. f. d. ges. Neurol. u. Psychiat., 1928, cxii, 549-574. CrossrefGoogle Scholar WHITE WA: Lectures in psychiatry (the major psychoses), N. Y., 1928, Nerv. & Ment. Dis. Pub. Co., 167 pp. Also:—Outlines of psychiatry, 10 ed., Washington, 1924. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Baltimore*Read at the Boston meeting of the American College of Physicians, April 8th, 1929. Nextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 September 1929Volume 3, Issue 3Page: 199-205KeywordsEmotionsMood disordersSurgeons Issue Published: 1 September 1929 PDF DownloadLoading ...