Mending minds : a guide to the new psychiatry of depression, anxiety, and other serious mental disorders
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Mending minds : a guide to the new psychiatry of depression, anxiety, and other serious mental disorders
（A series of books in psychology）
W.H. Freeman, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-221) and index
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ISBN 9780716721581
内容説明
Today's psychiatry is having a profound impact on patients and their families. By recognizing and attacking the biological and neurological causes of certain mental illnesses, modern psychiatric care enables many of those afflicted to lead richer lives. Written for the general reader, this text provides an accessible overview of modern psychiatry. Through a series of vivid case histories, the author describes the diagnosis, treatment and typical progress of depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, alcoholism and other illnesses. "Mending Minds" aims to offer hope, as well as sound practical advice, for those confronting these disorders in their personal lives.
目次
- Part 1 Mood: depression - John, special topic - diagnosis, prognosis and disease, diagnosis - major depression, prognosis, other types of depression, treatment, special topic - drugs and the brain, electroconvulsive therapy, if you are considering ECT, if you are depressed, if someone close to you is depressed
- bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness) - Karen, diagnosis - bipolar disorder, prognosis, treatment, if you think you have bipolar disorder, if someone close to you has bipolar disorder, special topic - judicial commitment, if you are considering judicial commitment of a relative. Part 2 Thinking: schizophrenia - George, diagnosis - schizophrenia, prognosis, treatment, if you have schizophrenia, if someone close to you has schizophrenia, schizoid disorders
- Alzheimer's disease and other dementing illnesses - Harry, diagnosis - Alzheimer's disease, prognosis, other dementing illnesses, treatment, if you suspect you have a dementing illness, if someone close to you has Alzheimer's disease or another dementia. Part 3 Anxiety: anxiety disorders - Jerry, diagnosis - obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic, phobic and generalized anxiety disorders, generalized anxiety disorder, prognosis, treatment, if you have an anxiety disorder, if someone close to you has an anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder. Part 4 Drug abuse: abuse of alcohol and other sedatives - Julia, diagnosis - alcoholism, other sedative drugs
- abuse of stimulant, hallucinogenic and narcotic drugs - stimulant drugs, hallucinogenic drugs, narcotics, if you are abusing drugs, if someone close to you is abusing drugs, what to do about drugs as a member of society. Part 5 Behaviour: antisocial personality and somatoform disorder - Roger, diagnosis - antisocial personality, prognosis, treatment, special topic - the insanity defense, psychiatric illness mimicking general medical illness, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment
- sex, syphilis and AIDS - syphilis, AIDS, homosexuality, if you are concerned about homosexuality, transsexualism, paraphilias, hetrosexual adjustment. Part 6 The future of psychiatry: the causes of mental illness - the indictment of genes, the indictment of environment, gene-environment interaction, special topic - from DNA to disease, the structure of proteins, the regulation of protein production, DNA change and disease, DNA, environment and disease, the new genetics and the new psychiatry. Appendix A - suggestions for further reading
- appendix B - support groups and other sources of help.
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pbk. ISBN 9780716721673
内容説明
Today's psychiatry is having a profound impact on patients and their families. By recognizing and attacking the biological and neurological causes of certain mental illnesses, modern psychiatric care enables many of those afflicted to lead richer lives. Written for the general reader, this text provides an accessible overview of modern psychiatry. Through a series of vivid case histories, the author describes the diagnosis, treatment and typical progress of depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, alcoholism and other illnesses. "Mending Minds" aims to offer hope, as well as sound practical advice, for those confronting these disorders in their personal lives.
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