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The literature on involutional psychiatric disorder, as on depressive diagnoses in general, is quite controversial. Since middle-aged women form a significant proportion of medical as well as psychiatric patients, it would seem useful to examine diagnoses within this group.
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Daly et al. (1968) studied this question.
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