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Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation.

1978 • 6,706 citations

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Toward an Interactional Description of Depression

1976 • 1,475 citations

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Psychopharmacology : a generation of progress

1978 • 1,168 citations

The psychology of depression: Contemporary theory and research

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Pain Patients: Traits and Treatments

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1977 • 617 citations

Handbook of affective disorders

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Chronic Pain as a Variant of Depressive Disease The Pain-Prone Disorder

1982 • 610 citations

Depression in Ambulatory Medical Patients

1980 • 426 citations

Cognitive distortion and cognitive errors in depressed psychiatric and low back pain patients.

1981 • 314 citations

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Estimated Prevalence of RDC Mental Disorder in Primary Medical Care

1979 • 245 citations

The depression-pain syndrome and its response to antidepressants

1981 • 227 citations

Pain, depression, and illness behavior in a Pain Clinic population

1977 • 227 citations

Psychological interventions for chronic pain: a critical review. I. Relaxation training and biofeedback

1982 • 224 citations

Atypical Facial Pain and Depression

1966 • 221 citations

Endorphins in chronic pain. I. Differences in CSF endorphin levels between organic and psychogenic pain syndromes

1978 • 215 citations

Depression and the perception of reinforcement.

1973 • 212 citations

Endorphins in human cerebrospinal fluid: Clinical correlations to some psychotic states

1978 • 208 citations

Diagnosing Depression in Medical Inpatients

1967 • 198 citations

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Endogenous Peptides and Analgesia

1978 • 192 citations

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1982 • 161 citations

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1982 • 148 citations

Are patients with chronic pain depressed?

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Depression Masquerading as Diabetic Neuropathy

1981 • 129 citations

Biofeedback and relaxation training with three kinds of headache: Treatment effects and their prediction.

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1983 • 127 citations

Psychological Functioning in Headache Sufferers

1982 • 126 citations

Behavior therapy in the psychiatric setting

1978 • 124 citations

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Depression, anhedonia and anxiety in temporomandibular joint and other facial pain syndromes

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1979 • 109 citations

The characteristics of persistent pain in psychological illness

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Depression in primary care: changes in pattern of patient visits and complaints during a developing depression.

1978 • 104 citations

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1967 • 99 citations

Some clinical, social and psychological characteristics of migraine subjects in the general population

1977 • 99 citations

Physical and psychological evaluation of 'non-organic' abdominal pain.

1967 • 96 citations

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1982 • 87 citations

Illness behavior and depression compared in pain center and private practice patients

1979 • 86 citations

Neurotic tendencies among chronic pain patients: an MMPI item analysis

1982 • 80 citations

Significance of pain in psychiatric hospital patients

1977 • 78 citations

Chronic pain and depression: a clinical and family history survey

1980 • 78 citations

Antidepressants and pain: a review of the pharmacological data supporting the use of certain tricyclics in chronic pain.

1977 • 77 citations

Pain as a Psychiatric Symptom: Comparison Between Low Back Pain and Depression

1976 • 61 citations

idiopathic pain disorder: a critique of pain-prone disorder and a proposal for a revision of the DSM-III category psychogenic pain disorder.

1982 • 51 citations

The dexamethasone suppression test with mildly to moderately depressed outpatients

1983 • 46 citations

Behavior Therapy for Depression: A Review of Recent Developments

1979 • 46 citations

A description of the psychological effects of chronic painful lesions

1982 • 45 citations

Role of Endorphins in Endogenous Pain Control Systems1

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1983 • 43 citations

Inpatient and outpatient patterns of psychotropic drug prescribing by nonpsychiatrist physicians

1975 • 42 citations

Psychologic characteristics of psychiatric patients having pain as a presenting symptom.

1967 • 40 citations

The anatomy and psychopharmacology of chronic pain.

1982 • 40 citations

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1981 • 38 citations

Psychiatric Presentations of Medical Illness: Somatopsychic Disorders.

1981 • 34 citations

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1982 • 33 citations

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1976 • 30 citations

Depression in medical outpatients: use of the Zung scale.

1977 • 25 citations

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1976 • 21 citations

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1978 • 20 citations

The Complaint of Pain in the Clinical Setting of Affective Disorders

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Affective Disorders: Psychopathology and Treatment

1983 • 15 citations

Urinary 3-Methoxy-4-Hydroxyphenethylene Glycol in the Prediction of Pain and Depression Relief with Doxepin

1983 • 14 citations

Incidence of depression in one family physician's practice.

1976 • 11 citations

A note on the occurence of pain in psychiatric patients from a Canadian Indian and inuit population

1981 • 10 citations

Neuroendocrine function and endogenous opioid peptide systems in chronic pain

1983 • 9 citations