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.
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American Psychiatric Association Publishing
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 139 mm
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978-0-88048-472-5 (9780880484725)
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Leon Grunhaus, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Psychiatry Department Guimel, Sheba Hospital, Tel Hashomer, Israel. John F. Greden, M.D., is Rachel Upjohn Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Senior Research Scientist at the Mental Health Research Institute, and Director of The University of Michigan Depression Center at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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.
