Fast Facts: Bipolar Disorder - Brossura

Goodwin, Guy; Sachs, Gary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1905832524 ISBN 13: 9781905832521

Casa editrice: Health Pr, 2010

Riassunto

A guide to understanding the different aspects of manic-depressive illness reviews current knowledge about the disorder and discusses treatment strategies.

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Recensione

This is a very good book. It is a concise, fact-packed and comprehensive guide to bipolar disorder. I cannot think of another book that covers so much ground in so few pages. Readers seeking more information on a particular topic will find further references at the end of each chapter. Although the book covers the disorder from a medical point of view (the authors are doctors), it does not neglect the patient s perspective, and it devotes some space to the role of the family or other care-givers in treatment and recovery. The chapter on enhanced care is particularly valuable where the recovery process is described in terms of an iterative and cooperative process involving evaluation, insight, education and learning on the part of patient, physician and family working together. It would have been nice if some space could have been found to detail the more common behaviors that disturb family members, such as anger or fear directed at loved ones, abusiveness, impulsiveness and unreliability. Nonetheless, this is an excellent book that provides an outstanding introduction to bipolar disorder. --BiPolar Significant others website.

L'autore

Guy Goodwin DPhil FRCPsych Professor of Psychiatry University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry Warneford Hospital Oxford, UK and Gary Sachs MD Director of Harvard Bipolar Research Program Associate Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School Boston, USA

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Health Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1905832524
• ISBN 13: 9781905832521
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 115
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile