Depression, Mental, Affective disorders, Affective Disorders--diagnosis, Affective Disorders--therapy, Depression--diagnosis, Depression therapy 

Since the first edition of this book was published, many dramatic changes have taken place in the treatment of depressions and the related Mood Disorders. Daniel Badal discusses these changes in detail and provides psychotherapists with a general gasp of their own place and function in relation to the large field of mood or affective disorders, and to the various related depressive states. This book also presents these essential insights in a condensed but sufficiently comprehensive way in order to give those nonpsychiatrists who treat patients with mood disorders an intensive course in the clinical psychiatry as it is practiced today. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. Editorial Reviews From the Publisher Special Features: -concise history of development of modern terms -details of accepted diagnostic terms from DSM -separate additional chapters on children, adolescents, adults, elderly --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. About the Author Daniel W. Badal, M.D., began his research in clinical and laboratory work on depression and other mood disorders at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School, and later at the Medical School and at the School of Social Work of the Case Western Reserve University. He taught residents and medical students at Case Western Reserve Medical School. In 1999, Dr. Badal was awarded the American Psychiatric Association Tenth Annual Nancy C.A. Roeske, M.D. Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Teaching. He also taught on the psychology and psychodynamics of mood disorders and on the use of medication in combination with psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to analytic candidates at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.