Male depression: fiction or clinical reality? Analysis of the phenomenon from the perspective of suicidal practice

The existence of a connection between suicidal behavior and depressive experiences has long been established and no one is in doubt now: depressive affect mediates the action of most other predictors and factors of high suicidal risk that are known today. The existence of the male depressive syndrome is still controversial. This work is an attempt to revise existing ideas about male depression, the search of possible strong points of its early detection.