Challenging Depression

This book presents an overview of depression, including its causes, methods of diagnosis and treatment, and suggestions for getting the most out of treatment. An up-to-the-minute handbook about this common problem, it pays attention to the benefits and drawbacks of medication.

ISBN	0393706109	Volumes	1
ISBN13	9780393706109 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	907
Publisher	WW Norton & Co	Published in	New York
Imprint	WW Norton & Co	Series title	Go-to Series
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	235
Publication date	16 Nov 2010	Width (mm)	162
DEWEY	616.8527	Spine width (mm)	30
DEWEY edition	DC22	Academic level	Professional / Scholarly, General
Pages	338

	Preface
Chapter 1	Knowing the Enemy: The Faces of Depression	1
Chapter 2	Diagnosing the Enemy: Why Careful Differential Diagnosis Is Important	10
Chapter 3	Understanding the Enemy: Theories of What Causes Depression	52
Chapter 4	What Is "Me" and What Is "Illness"? Personality Versus Mood Disorder	66
Chapter 5	Staying Alive: Dealing With Suicidal Thoughts and Impulses	77
Chapter 6	Finding Treatment and Paying for It: Dealing With the Health Care System and Insurance	93
Chapter 7	Facilitating Collaboration Between Patient and Clinician	114
Chapter 8	Psychotherapy Is More Than Talking to a Nice Person: Specific Approaches to Dealing With Depression	163
Chapter 9	Choosing an Antidepressant for Major Depressive Disorder: Getting to Know the Drug Families	234
Chapter 10	Evaluating the Success or Failure of Pharmacotherapy	293
Chapter 11	My Antidepressant Isn't Working. What Now? Sophisticated Approaches to Augmenting, Combining, and Switching Medicines	315
Chapter 12	Bipolar Depression Requires Different Approaches	348
Chapter 13	Child and Adolescent Depression	368
Chapter 14	Extreme Measures: Electroconvulsive Therapy, Vagus Nerve Stimulation, and Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation	408
Chapter 15	Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Herbs and Supplements	423
Chapter 16	Living a Healthy Life While Living With a Psychiatric Illness	490
Chapter 17	Learning More: Books and Web Sites	529
	Epilogue	547
	References	549
	Index	635

If you re concerned about depression in yourself, your family, or among your students or clients, you will indeed find this book a go-to guide. It s not dumbed-down, but it uses straightforward language and recognizes that many of us are unfamiliar with medical and psychiatric terminology.--Linda Carlson

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