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Psychogenic needs in depression

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Thirty-eight depressed in- and outpatients at the Department of Psychiatry, Umeå University, were asked to complete a CMPS form concerning their psychogenic needs. The depression depth of these patients was then rated by a doctor who utilized selected items from the CPRS scale. The 38 patients were matched according to age and sex with 38 former depressed patients who had been investigated after recovery from a depressive syndrome to establish whether there is any correlation between psychogenic needs and severity of a depressive disorder and to determine whether these psychogenic needs depend on depression or are a more stable part of an individual's personality.

No difference between the two groups was found concerning diagnosis and no correlation was found between age and depression depth. We found weak but significant correlations (rs=0.38) in only two of the twelve variables of psychogenic needs investigated (autonomy and acquiscence). By comparing the two groups of depressive and recovered patients, we found no difference for any of the twelve tested CMPS variables, but in further differentiation by sex the group of recovered women scored higher in variable affiliation than the group of depressive women.

Thus the psychogenic needs experienced by individuals prone to depression seem to be a more stable part of their habitual personality rather than a manifestation of depression.

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Perris, H., Strandman, E. Psychogenic needs in depression. Arch. Psychiat. Nervenkr. 227, 97–107 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00347157

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