Review on depression by the analysis of behavior and some psychiatric manuals

Abstract

Objective: In this study it was conducted a brief review of depression according to some textbooks of psychiatry and through the theoretical approach of Psychology, Behavior Analysis. Methods: It was performed a review of theoretical narrative. Results: The data showed three main lines of research that address depression in the psychological theoretical line: learned helplessness, anhedonia and depression by separation. The psychiatric manuals revised were ICD 10 and DSM-IV-TR, in versions 1995 and 2000, respectively. Conclusion: It was observed that the view of the materials analyzed are very different, since in the psychiatric manuals are described symptoms of depression, and in the behavior analysis is reported the history of exposure to aversive events of the subject who has depression. It shows a higher concern on the part of psychological theory, with the contingencies that produced depression, and in the Psychiatry, with the symptoms of mental illness.