Hagop S. Akiskal

Giovanni B. Cassano

Recent research findings have led to a paradigmatic shift in our conceptualization of chronic depressions, ushering in a new era of optimism about their clinical management. This volume documents the ongoing transformation of theory and practice--from art into science--in this critical field. Bringing together leading international experts in psychiatry and psychology, the book reviews what is currently known about the nature and classification of specified chronic depressive subtypes. With vital implications for the pharmacologic treatment of a range of disorders that were historically believed to be beyond the reach of somatotherapy, the book also considers psychotherapeutic issues and raises numerous compelling questions for future investigation.

Dysthymia and the Spectrum of Chronic Depressions

S. W. Burton

Dysthymic Disorder

Norman Sartorius

Mario Maj

Juan José Lopez-Ibor

Contributi di: Hagop S. Akiskal, Mark S. Bauer, Charles L. Bowden, Peter Brieger, Carrie L. Ernst, Joseph Goldberg, Nathan Herrmann, Anthony Levitt, Andreas Marneros, Ayal Schafer, Kenneth I. Shulman.

Disturbo bipolare

Ahmed Okasha

Juan José López-Ibor

Phobias are increasingly common amongst the general population, sometimes resulting in a very significant social disability and burden for the family. Most cases remain undiagnosed, and many of those which are diagnosed are treated inappropriately. Written by internationally renowned psychiatrist, Mario Maj, this book provides an update of research evidence and clinical experience concerning agoraphobia, social phobia and specific phobias.

Phobias

Andreas Marneros

Many clinicians and researchers are convinced that there is an overlap between affective and schizophrenic spectra. In this book, an international team of experts discuss aspects of comorbidity, genetic models, clinical course, phenomenology and therapies. This is the first comprehensive overview of the schizoaffective spectra. Challenging cases presenting clinical and paraclinical features of both spectra are surprisingly numerous. Not only the phenomenology but also the course, outcome and treatment of such cases have their own characteristics. Recent research shows that the overlap also involves genetics and biological processes related to psychotic disorders. Within the overlap of affective and schizophrenic spectra it is possible to identify some groups of disorders having similar clinical and non-clinical features: the 'schizoaffective' group, 'Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorder' or 'Brief Psychosis', and other groups found in so-called 'Atypical Forms'.

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