The Good News About Depression: Cures and Treatments in the New Age of Psychiatry - Hardcover

Gold, Mark S.; Morris, Lois B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394540395 ISBN 13: 9780394540399

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1987

Synopsis

Argues that biopsychiatry offers new hope for treating mental disorders, explains that depression is often a sympton of a physical disorder, and discusses misdiagnosis, medications, and psychotherapy

About this title

About the Author:

Mark S. Gold, M.D., F.C.P., F.A.P.A. is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He has received numerous awards and patents for his research, including the invention of new treatments and the use of laboratory tests in psychiatry. Dr. Gold has played a leading role in international, national, and local drug abuse prevention programs.

From the Inside Flap:

o pioneering biopsychiatrist Mark S. Gold, M.D. wrote a visionary guide to the effective new medical therapies emerging for the treatment of depression. Now, in this newly revised edition of his classic book, Dr. Gold does it again. The new Good News reveals how, in just a decade, sophisticated new research and drug therapies have revolutionized the care of all types of depression.

This essential resource includes:

-New treatments for depression and manic depression for 1995 and on the horizon for approval

-New diagnostic guidelines for different types of depression,including crucial tests many physicians omit

-The most common illnesses that mimic depression

-New tools to treat depression, such as light therapy and hormone therapy

-An all-new chapter on Prozac and other state-of-the-art medications

-New information on depression in women, children, and seniors

-Vital new approaches

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0394540395
• ISBN 13: 9780394540399
• Binding: Hardcover