Female Physicians and Primary Affective Disorderppp-Reply
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Abstract In Reply.— The statements in the second paragraph of Dr Pitts' letter to the editor require clarification. First, since most patients with affective disorder have an episodic course of illness, a history of a cluster of depressive symptoms for a given period of time is the basis for a diagnosis of primary affective disorder in the absence of a preexisting psychiatric disorder. Second, the term "primary affective disorder" is preferable to "manic-depressive...