neurotic depression

neurotic depression
any depression that is not a psychotic depression (q.v.); used sometimes broadly to indicate any depression without psychotic features and sometimes more narrowly to denote only milder forms of depression, which would be diagnosed as dysthymic disorder by DSM-IV criteria or as reactive (rather than endogenous) depression.

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