The Long-Term Outcome of Maudsley Depressives

Eighty-nine consecutive admissions with primary depressive illness were prospectively ascertained and diagnosed in 1965–66 by R. E. Kendell, who also allocated each a position on a neurotic-psychotic continuum on the basis of previous discriminant function analysis. In 1983–84, 94% of the survivors were personally interviewed by a psychiatrist blind to index admission data. Operational outcome criteria were employed and longitudinal data were...