Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do About It: What We Know and What You Can Do About It - Softcover

DePaulo Jr., J. Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471430307 ISBN 13: 9780471430308

Publisher: John Wiley &Sons, 2003

Synopsis

From a leading medical expert at Johns Hopkins, here is an up-to-the-minute, definitive guide to what s known about depression and how it can be treated. Around ten percent of North Americans suffer from depression at some point - and more than half haven t even sought help. Now, Dr. Raymond DePaulo, one of the world s foremost authorities on depression, provides a sensitive, thorough, and reassuring book for sufferers from depression and those who care about them. This practical guide for individuals with depression and their families - the only totally comprehensive book in the market - shows readers how to identify the problem, then directs them to the various forms of treatment, including medications, psychotherapy, support groups, and exercise. It is one of the few books to discuss in depth manic depression, the bipolar form of depression. Dr. DePaulo discusses both mainstream (the latest medications and talk therapies) and alternative paths and reveals the truth about the dangerous fallacies that abound about depression. Comprehensive, compassionate, and grounded in the very latest research into brain chemistry, psychology, and medications, this is a definitive, landmark roadmap to one of the most devastating - and common - mental illnesses.

About this title

About the Author

J. RAYMOND DePAULO Jr., M.D., is the Henry Phipps Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and founder of the Affective Disorders Clinic at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Internationally known as a clinician, teacher, and research expert on depression and manic–depressive illness, Dr. DePaulo has won many awards for research and teaching, and he has been selected as one of the "Best Doctors in America" in each of the three editions of the book.
LESLIE ALAN HORVITZ is a freelance writer based in New York.

From the Back Cover

"The best place to begin the process of becoming informed."
Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., author of An Unquiet Mind

"Understanding Depression gives coherent form to modern science’s confused wisdom about the illness, and does so in an accessible, intelligent way."
Andrew Solomon, author of the National Book Award winner
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

"Understanding Depression answers all the questions the layman wants the answers to. It’s a book people will refer to time and time again. This book was needed, and J. Raymond DePaulo and Leslie Alan Horvitz have done us all a tremendous service."
Art Buchwald

"Understanding Depression is a one–stop, all–inclusive source that leaves no question unanswered . . . simply the best, most comprehensive book on depression I’ve ever read. Dr. DePaulo’s book will become required reading for all my patients."
Joseph J. Luciani, Ph.D., author of Self–Coaching: How to Heal Anxiety and Depression

In Understanding Depression, one of the world’s foremost authorities on depression presents a thorough, accessible guide to depression’s nature, causes, effects, and treatments. Dr. J. Raymond DePaulo Jr. of the prestigious Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows you how to find out if what you’re coping with is, in fact, depression. He then examines the full range of proven therapies, both mainstream and alternative, that are currently available. Using insightful and dramatic case stories from DePaulo’s own clinical experience, this user–friendly handbook is a truly indispensable resource for anyone who must deal directly or indirectly with the devastating effects of this common, frightening, and ultimately controllable condition.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley &Sons
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471430307
• ISBN 13: 9780471430308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306