Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 2, Supplement 1 , Pages 32-38 , March 2000

Subthreshold depression in the elderly: Qualitative or quantitative distinction?

  • Bernhard Geiselman

      Affiliations

    • From the Department of Behavioral Therapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Klinik Seehof BfA, Teltow; and Department of Psychiatry, Benjamin Franklin University Hospital, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Bernhard Geiselmann, M.D., Klinik Seehof BfA, Department of Behavioral Therapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Lichterfelder Allee 55, D-14513 Teltow, Germany.
    • ,
  • Michael Bauer

      Affiliations

    • From the Department of Behavioral Therapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Klinik Seehof BfA, Teltow; and Department of Psychiatry, Benjamin Franklin University Hospital, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Comprehensive Psychiatry
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