ABSTRACT
When two entities such as personality and depression interact on our collective radar screen, scientific discussion tends to become rather complicated. Discourse pertaining to these entities may be considered to have crossed the threshold of complexity once Schneider challenged Kraepelin’s [1] argument that mild chronic depression is in fact a variant of what was then referred to as manic-depressive illness with the suggestion that mild chronic depression is best understood as a problem pertaining to an aberrant personality [2]. Since that time questions of distinctiveness and ubiquity have been applied to taxonomies, methodologies, and theories in the quest to tease apart the relationship between depression and personality.
