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Informationen zum Autor Michael Alan Taylor is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science! North Chicago Illinois! and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan School of Medicine! Ann Arbor Michigan. Max Fink is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook! and Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine! New York. Klappentext Defines melancholia as a syndrome with a clear diagnosis! prognosis! and set of treatment options. Zusammenfassung This book provides a comprehensive review of melancholia as a severe disorder of mood! associated with suicide! psychosis! and catatonia. The syndrome is defined with a clear diagnosis! prognosis! and range of management strategies. It challenges accepted doctrines and describes melancholia as a treatable and preventable mental illness. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of patient vignettes; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Melancholia: a conceptual history; 2. Melancholia defined; 3. Defining melancholia by psychopathology; 4. Defining melancholia: laboratory tests; 5. Examination for melancholia; 6. The differential diagnosis of melancholia; 7. Suicide in melancholia; 8. Electroconvulsive therapy for melancholia; 9. Achieving effective ECT; 10. The validity of the pharmacotherapy literature in melancholia; 11. Basic pharmacotherapy for melancholic patients; 12. Pharmacotherapy of melancholia: complicating circumstances.
