Psychiatric Times Vol 28 No 3

Richard Berlin, M.D.: “There is something about the condensed pressure of poetry that feels very natural to me.”

Mixed states constitute a wondrously variegated universe of psychopathology. These states are characterized by the intrusion of features characteristic of depression into states of hypomania or mania and the converse. Mixed states assume a myriad of forms that as a family may be among the most commonly encountered states of affective illness.