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As formulated by Wing [1], to put forward a diagnosis is, first of all, to recognize a condition, i.e. the screening approach, and then to put forward a theory about it. The Melancholia Scale (MES) is a screening tool for recognizing depressive illness which in terms of the MES criteria can be placed on the spectrum of mild, less than major, major, and more than major depression or melancholia. (It should be emphasized that melancholia according to Hamilton [2] refers to depressive illness and not to a diagnosis in itself which unfortunately is the case in DSM-IV [3].)
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Bech, P. (1995). The Diagnostic Melancholia Scale (DMS). In: The Bech, Hamilton and Zung Scales for Mood Disorders: Screening and Listening. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97633-9_5
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