Affective disorders and withdrawal syndrome in alcohol dependence

In patients with affective disorders and withdrawal syndrome in alcohol dependence, the distinguished variants were as follows: anxietydepressive with predominance of symptoms of anxiety, depressive with anergy and pessimistic projection into the future; dysphoric with traumatic child experience; anhedonistic in that depressive background was masked by anhedonistic symptoms. Proposed clinical typology of affective disorders reflects clinical-descriptive component of distorted affective functioning of patients with alcohol dependence and causal factors in pathogenesis of these disorders.