PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF DEPRESSIO N

The theoretical model of depression has been dueloped on the basis of 275 psychopathological observations of the affective disorders. The pr imary symptomcomplexes of hypothymia and alienation are considered to be the obligatory components of the syndrome structure. Depressions ar e ranged into the system with variants according to comorbid correlati ons between hypothymia and alienation. The anesthetic depression (In w hich the signs of vital affective supression and alienation are charac terized by total symptomatological comorbidity) considered to form the center of such system. The variations of affective disorders (vital, existential, ''self-torture'' depressions, ''depression without depres sion'') in which the comorbidity phenomenon is just partly realized an d In which one of the symptomcomplex is totally expressed have the mar ginal position.