Social adjustment in primary affective disorder
Abstract
135:1/,J 1:338-339, 1961 7. Babiak W: Case fatality due to overdosage tranylcypromine (Parnate) and imipramine Assoc J 85:377, 19618. JareckiHG:and phenelzine Southernpoisoning.of a combination (Tofranil). Canof MedAm J Psychiatry 9. Ayd FJ: Doxepin120:189, 1963 with other drugs.Med J 66:465-471,L. DUNNER,in PrimaryM.D., GERARDJ. IGEL,AND RONALD R. FIEVE, M.D.The purpose of this paper is to assess social adjustment in patients with primary affective disorder. Recently, Weissman and Paykel (1) studied social adjustment in depressed patients using a structured questionname-the Social Adjustment Scale-derived from an interview used by Gurland and associates (2). Their studies showed that the women dcprcssivcs had worse adjustment in several social areas when they were depressed than when euthymic, and that euthymic depressed patients showed worse social adjustment than controls. The population studied by Weissman and Paykel was described as having primarily unipolar depression. We have administered a self-report version of the Social Adjustment Scale (SAS-SR) to patients attending an outpatient lithium clinic (3). Our major interests were to describe the social adjustment states of these patients, most ofwhom had bipolar depression, and to compare data on the depressed women in our sample with the data reported by Weissman and Paykel. Method The study was conducted in