Table of Contents:
  • Clinical course of affective disorders / J. Angst
  • Comments / P. Pichot
  • Genetic aspects in affective disorders: introductory remarks / A. Bertelsen
  • Genetic aspects in the course and outcome of affective disorders / E. Smeraldi
  • Psychosocial aspects of course and outcome in depressive illness / Katschnig, D.O. Nutzinger
  • Comments / V. Lehtinen
  • Biological aspects of course and outcome in depressive illness: needed areas of research / N. Matussek
  • Comments / B.E. Leonard
  • Image of depression / R. hman, A.F. Holmkvist, S. Nielzen
  • Physical ill-health, age and depression / J.R.M. Copeland
  • Comments: mortality in depressive disorders; a 3-year prospective follow-up study in Finland / J. Lnnqvist, M. Koskenvuo
  • Personality as a mediating variable in the pathogenesis of mood disorders: implications for theory, research, and prevention / H.S. Akisal
  • Subject index.