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With Special Reference to Aging

ASSER STENBACK, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(2):144-151.

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THE HUMAN being lives simultaneously on the biological, psychological, and social levels. These three life levels are interwoven, each exerting an influence upon the other two.

Like other human processes, depression (used here to denote the psychiatric disease entity "depression") takes place on the biological, psychological, and social levels. According to the general hypothesis underlying this study, depression can mainly originate in one or two or all of these areas, but regardless of origin, depression manifests itself on all these three levels as biological, psychological, and social disturbances.

The factors involved in the development of depression are schematically presented in Table 1. From case to case these factors intermingle in various ways to bring about the biopsycho

TABLE 1.—Factors in the Development of Depression Predisposition

1. Biological (hereditary or acquired) 2. Psychic (eg, depressive attitudes due to emotional traumata in childhood) 3. Sociological (eg, a culture which . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
HELSINKI, FINLAND

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 12, 1964.

Reprint request to Hesperia Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.

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