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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 916-917, 1999
© 1999 Medical Council on Alcoholism

Letters to the Editors

SECONDARY DEPRESSION IN WEANED ALCOHOLICS: IMPLICATIONS OF LESCH'S TYPOLOGY OF CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM

F. Kiefer* and A. Barocka1

Clinic of Psychiatry, University Hospital Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, D-20246 Hamburg and
1 Clinic of Psychiatry, University of Erlangen–Nueremberg, Schwabachanlage 6–10, 91054 Erlangen, Germany

Received 9 February 1999; first review notified 19 April 1999; accepted 5 May 1999

Schuckit (1983) described two types of alcohol-related depression: (1) the common type, in which secondary depression disappears without treatment within the first few weeks of abstinence; (2) a less frequent type, primary depression, requiring specific treatment. It is difficult to anticipate whether an alcoholic patient needs antidepressive treatment or whether depression will remit spontaneously. A potential guide to differentiate depressed alcoholic patients who might need specific treatment for depression could be the typology of Lesch et al. (1990). Based on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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