ABSTRACT
When depression is discussed among mental health professionals, profound disagreements often emerge. Some profess that the use of somatic therapy (medication or electroconvulsive therapy) is unnecessary (if not deleterious) to outcome. They reason that depression emerges from limited coping techniques to meet life's challenges and one's perception about life and themselves. Those trained in medical settings (and thus more likely to work with inpatient populations) tend to treat those depressions that profoundly interfere with functioning . They will assert that medications and electroconvulsive therapy are highly effective and should be utilized.
