Abstract
The assessment systems presented during this symposium have been selected because of their clinical importance for the diagnosis of depression. They can be ordered on a one-way axis starting with national names and descriptions for depressive disorders, going through the international names given by ICD-9 or DSM-III and ending with the various types of research criteria and rating scales. This axis is a one-way axis because it is, as also noted by Roth et al. (1983), unlikely that new disorders will emerge from rating scales. Such scales must be regarded as instruments constructed for objectivity and reliability on the basis of observations obtained by psychiatrists who had demonstrated their skills in making masked symptoms palpaple, and thereby named the identified disorder.
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