Terms Related to Reactive, Psychotic Depression

• Psychotic Disorder

  Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

• Post-Partum Depression

  Depression in women occurring usually within four weeks after the delivery of a child. The degree of depression ranges from mild transient depression to neurotic …

• Brief Reactive Psychosis

  Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

• Depression

  Depressive states usually of moderate intensity in contrast with major depression present in neurotic and psychotic disorders.

• Reactive Depression

  Maladaptive reactions to identifiable psychosocial stressors occurring within a short time after onset of the stressor. They are manifested by either impairment in social or …