Calming the Bipolar Storm - A Guide for Patients and Their Families

Calming the Bipolar Storm describes the symptoms and subtypes of bipolar disorder, its causes, and the role of the social and biologic environment in affecting its course. It also emphasizes positive health-promoting behaviors and describes treatments, including psychotherapy and medications for mania and depression and for relapse prevention.

About the author

Robert G. Fawcett, MD, is president of Little Traverse Psychiatric Associates, P. C. He has lived in Petoskey, Michigan, for over forty years, practicing psychiatry, and at various times acting as medical director of an inpatient psychiatric unit, teaching medical students as an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry in the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and serving as president of the Northern Michigan Medical Society.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Fawcett, Fawcett Robert
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781538145647
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4564-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, SELF-HELP / Mood Disorders / Depression, SELF-HELP / Mood Disorders / Bipolar Disorder, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Bipolar Disorder, Coping with illness & specific conditions