Volume 2 Issue 6 - December 2007

by Tony Reid

Part one of this article closed with an exhortation to ‘vigorously uphold the TCM paradigm’ in our dealings with patients who may have acquired the label of ‘depression’ from one of our Western medical colleagues. Before embarking on a discussion of the pathogenesis and treatment strategies for patients with the major presenting symptom of depressed mood, I would like to take a brief look at the paradigm/s of the psyche that are presented to us in the literature both modern and ancient.