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Joseph S. Silverman, MD
Julia Ann Silverman David A. Eardley, Ded 501 Howard Ave Altoona, PA 16601

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1984;41(11):1112.

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Until recently, data were lacking as to whether attitudes that are characteristic of actively depressed persons—perfectionistic, absolutistic, external-control oriented, etc—persist after recovery. Such data are now available. In all studies, including those cited by Riskind and Steer, these data have showed a considerable decline in dysfunctional beliefs as recovery ensues. Our depressive patients, when fully asymptomatic, did not differ significantly from a control group in their performance on the DAS. In close agreement with our findings, Simons et al¹ simultaneously but independently reported that the DAS scores of their depressed patients dropped with recovery from 154.3 to 97.5; the latter score is well within the normal range. Lewinsohn et al² summarized additional evidence in support of our position. Although the reports of Eaves and Rush³ and of Reda⁴ revealed a "maladaptive attitudes gap" between treated depressives and control subjects, we deduced that symptoms in neither group . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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