Psychosomatics 2: 264-266, 1961
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© 1961 Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
Depression, the Simulator
R. W. WAGGONER M.D.1
1 Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
An attempt has been made to re-emphasize the fact that depression may manifest itself as physical symptoms and even at times may masquerade as a somatic "syndrome." It is vitally important that every physician keep this in mind, particularly when the symptoms the patient presents may not ring quite true as evidence of a somatic syndrome. Depression is also referred to as a complication of physical disease and as a possible source of such disease.
No attempt has been made to discuss depression in the clinical sense nor from a nosological point of view.
