Michael Alan Taylor, Max Fink, Taylor Michael Alan

Melancholia

The Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment of Depressive Illness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Defines melancholia as a syndrome with a clear diagnosis, prognosis, and set of treatment options.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 961g
• ISBN-13: 9780521131247
• ISBN-10: 0521131243
• Artikelnr.: 28517112

Inhaltsangabe

List of patient vignettes
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Melancholia: a conceptual history
2. Melancholia defined
3. Defining melancholia by psychopathology
4. Defining melancholia: laboratory tests
5. Examination for melancholia
6. The differential diagnosis of melancholia
7. Suicide in melancholia
8. Electroconvulsive therapy for melancholia
9. Achieving effective ECT
10. The validity of the pharmacotherapy literature in melancholia
11. Basic pharmacotherapy for melancholic patients
12. Pharmacotherapy of melancholia: complicating circumstances.