Depression and Personality: Conceptual and Clinical Challenges - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585621544 ISBN 13: 9781585621545

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

A look at where we are in understanding the relationship between personality dimensions, disorders, and mood disorder.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Rosenbluth, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Director of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Treatment Program at Toronto East General Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. Sidney H. Kennedy, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the University Health Network in Toronto, Ontario. R. Michael Bagby, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Director of Clinical Research at the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health in Toronto, Ontario.

From the Back Cover

Depression and Personality: Conceptual and Clinical Challenges offers an intriguing new look at where we are in understanding the relationship between personality dimensions, disorders, and mood disorder. It is both a cogent update of conceptual models and a clearly written, practical guide to the challenges faced every day by clinicians as they treat patients with depression and bipolar disorder.

In introducing the volume, the editors emphasize the value of robust pharmacotherapy--augmented by psychosocial interventions focused on assets, rather than liabilities, of a patient's personality. They also stress the importance of a detailed review of our understanding--conceptually and clinically--of the relationship between personality and depression. In the 10 subsequent chapters, 22 authors examine the impact of personality on pharmacotherapy and review crucial issues of assessment and therapy for personality disorder patients with comorbid depression, chronic depression, and bipolar disorder. Similar issues of the occurrence of these illnesses in adolescents and the elderly are also addressed.

Invaluable reading for clinicians and researchers alike, Depression and Personality: Conceptual and Clinical Challenges offers fascinating perspectives on the historical antecedents, neurobiological dimensions, and conceptual models of the relationship between personality and depression.

From the Inside Flap

Depression and Personality: Conceptual and Clinical Challenges offers an intriguing new look at where we are in understanding the relationship between personality dimensions, disorders, and mood disorder. It is both a cogent update of conceptual models and a clearly written, practical guide to the challenges faced every day by clinicians as they treat patients with depression and bipolar disorder.

In introducing the volume, the editors emphasize the value of robust pharmacotherapy -- augmented by psychosocial interventions focused on assets, rather than liabilities, of a patient's personality. They also stress the importance of a detailed review of our understanding -- conceptually and clinically -- of the relationship between personality and depression. In the 10 subsequent chapters, 22 authors examine the impact of personality on pharmacotherapy and review crucial issues of assessment and therapy for personality disorder patients with comorbid depression, chronic depression, and bipolar disorder. Similar issues of the occurrence of these illnesses in adolescents and the elderly are also addressed.

Invaluable reading for clinicians and researchers alike, Depression and Personality: Conceptual and Clinical Challenges offers fascinating perspectives on the historical antecedents, neurobiological dimensions, and conceptual models of the relationship between personality and depression.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585621544
• ISBN 13: 9781585621545
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Rosenbluth MD FRCPC Michael, Kennedy MD FRCPC Sidney H., Bagby PhD R. Michael