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Psychiatric assessment is often considered the \u201cgold standard\u201d for diagnosis, therefore how psychiatrists conceptualize depression in this setting is pertinent. Our study aimed to investigate this issue.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1478951514001187_sec2\"><jats:title>Method:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Psychiatrists working in palliative care in Australia were individually interviewed using a semistructured approach. Nine participants were interviewed to reach data saturation. Interview transcripts were analyzed for themes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1478951514001187_sec3\"><jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Three overarching themes were identified: (1) depression means different things; (2) depression is conceptualized using different models; and (3) depression is the same concept within and outside of the palliative care setting. Participants explicitly articulated the heterogeneous nature of depression and described a different breadths of concepts, ranging from a narrow construct of a depressive illness to a broader one that encompassed depressive symptoms and emotions. However, depressive illness was a consistent concept, and participants considered this in terms of phenotypic subtypes. Participants used three models (spectral, dichotomous, and mixed) to relate various depressive presentations.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1478951514001187_sec4\"><jats:title>Significance of Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Psychiatrists did not subscribe to a unitary model of depression but understood it as a heterogeneous concept comprised of depressive illness and other less clearly defined depressive presentations. 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