ABSTRACT

This paper is focused on the role of cognitions in depressive disorders, from a diagnostic and a therapeutic point of view. After a brief review of the diagnostic criteria stated in ICD - 10 and DSM-IV, we call into question the cognitive model of depression proposed by A.Beck, basedprimarily on negative cognitive productions and negative cognitive scheinata, and the model proposed by M.Seligman, concerning the learned helptessness theory of depression. Finally, we expose the issues of the cognitive therapy in depression.

KEYWORDS: cognitions in depression learned helplessness, cognitive therapy