Can Treating Depression Improve Disease Outcomes?

Editorials15 June 2004Can Treating Depression Improve Disease Outcomes?FREEJeffrey L. Jackson, MD, MPH, Kent DeZee, MD, and Elizabeth Berbano, MD, MPHJeffrey L. Jackson, MD, MPHFrom Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814., Kent DeZee, MDFrom Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814., and Elizabeth Berbano, MD, MPHFrom Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-140-12-200406150-00017 SectionsAboutVisual AbstractPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail The separation of the mind and body, a legacy that can be traced from Greek philosophers to Descartes' Meditations to modern western thought, is reflected in the attitudes and practices of western medicine. This partitioning of mental disorders as processes of the mind, separate and distinct…