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Investigations into the Significance of the Endocrines in Involutional Melancholia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

R. E. Hemphill  and
Max Reiss
R. E. Hemphill
Affiliation:
Bristol Mental Hospital
Max Reiss
Affiliation:
Burden Neurological Institute, Bristol
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The question whether involutional melancholia in females can be regarded as distinct form of mental illness representing a reaction to bodily changes following the menopause has been amply discussed. It has been held by some that such a melancholia is no more than one phase of the manic-depressive psychosis (1, 2). Others hold the opposite view and justify it on statistical and clinical grounds (3).

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 86 , Issue 365 , November 1940 , pp. 1065 - 1077
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1940 

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