|Articles|June 2, 2008
- Psychiatric Times Vol 25 No 7
- Volume 25
- Issue 7
The Concept of Recovery in Major Depression
Author(s)Carlotta Belaise, PhD, Giovanni A. Fava, MD
In clinical medicine, the term recovery connotes the act of regaining or returning to a normal or usual state of health. However, there is lack of consensus about the use of this term (which may indicate both a process and a state), as well as of the related word remission, which indicates a temporary abatement of symptoms. Such ambiguities also affect the concepts of relapse (the return of a disease after its apparent cessation) and recurrence (the return of symptoms after a remission).
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