Melancholia : the diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment of depressive illness / Michael Alan Taylor, Max Fink.
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 treat...
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Melancholia: a conceptual history
- Melancholia defined
- Defining melancholia by psychopathology
- Defining melancholia: laboratory tests
- Examination for melancholia
- The differential diagnosis of melancholia
- Suicide in melancholia
- Electroconvulsive therapy for melancholia
- Achieving effective ECT
- The validity of the pharmacotherapy literature in melancholia
- Basic pharmacotherapy for melancholic patients
- Pharmacotherapy for melancholic patients in complicating circumstances
- Proposed treatments for melancholia
- The pathophysiology of melancholia
- Future directions.