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Dysthymic disorder was included as a new diagnostic category in the Affective Disorders section when the American Psychiatric Association introduced the third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) in 1980. This was controversial since in DSM-II chronic states of depression were listed as cyclothymic personality or depressive neurosis within the Personality Disorders and Neuroses sections. Persistent low-grade depressive symptoms of insidious onset are difficult to differentiate from personality structure (see Kocsis & Frances, 1987, for a historical review). The inclusion of dysthymic disorder in the Affective Disorders section of DSM-III (called dysthymia in the Mood Disorders section of DSM-III-R) represents an important shift in the conceptualization of chronic mood states.
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Mercier, M.A. (1994). Dysthymic Disorder. In: Last, C.G., Hersen, M. (eds) Adult Behavior Therapy Casebook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2409-0_4
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