Severe depressive disorders
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Severe depressive disorders
(The Progress in psychiatry series / David Spiegel, series editor, #44)
American Psychiatric Press, c1994
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The range of severity in depressive disorders is great -- Severe Depressive Disorders is the first book published that provides an in-depth look at the most severe end of the spectrum. The book is oriented toward the care of patients who require specific attention, careful treatment, and detailed prognostic assessment. Improved understanding, knowledge, and treatment approaches of depressive disorders are stressed throughout. Severe Depressive Disorders contains a distinguished list of contributors who present original concepts in the causes of, and treatment for patients with, severe depressive mood disorders.
Table of Contents
Assessment of severe depressive disorders. Mechanisms underlying the evolution of affective disorders: implications for long-term treatment. Genetics and major affective disorders. Family functioning in severe depressive disorders. Chronicity, relapse, recurrence, and psychosocial morbidity in severe depression and the role of maintenance treatment. Major depressive disorder and panic disorder: the syndrome and its characteristics. Diagnosis and treatment of psychotic (delusional) depression. Dysthymia. Suicide. Pharmacotherapy of depressive disorders. Cognitive-behavior therapy of severe unipolar depression. Electroconvulsive therapy for severe depressive disorders.
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