Am J Psychiatry 1987; 144:181-187
Copyright © 1987 by American Psychiatric Association
State and personality in depressed and panic patients
J Reich, R Noyes Jr, R Hirschfeld, W Coryell and T O'Gorman
The authors examined 36 patients with panic disorder, 66 patients with
major depression, and 124 control subjects to determine personality
differences between them in the ill and the recovered states. The panic and
depressed groups did not differ from each other in either state. Both
recovered groups had less emotional strength and greater interpersonal
dependency than the control subjects. The effect of state on personality
measures appears to be similar for anxious and depressed patients. No
personality measures that clearly differentiated the recovered panic and
depressed patients were found.
