Taming the tyrant
Subtitle: treating depressed adults
By: Dean Schuyler.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Depression, Mental.
Description: Taming the Tyrant guides clinicians in diagnosing, understanding, and treating the full spectrum of depressive disorders. An indispensable reference in today's time-restricted managed care environment, it is designed to reduce trial-and-error by enabling clinicians to identify each depressive disorder sooner and to respond with the treatments most likely to prove effective for that disorder.

Dr. Schuyler teams 25 years' clinical experience in psychiatry with an intelligent analysis of the newest developments in research to explain the biological, affective, cognitive, and behavioral mechanisms of depression. He describes depression's many and varied presentations, then details not only the hows but also the whys of the expanding pharmacological treatment options, as well as treatment through convulsive therapy or cognitive therapy.

Besides giving readers a thorough understanding of the familiar depressive disorders - such as dysthymia, the unipolar and bipolar depressions, and resistant depression - Taming the Tyrant explains other, less familiar depressive illnesses: chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, olfactory reference syndrome, and body dysmorphic disorder. This is the comprehensive modern reference for treating depressed adults.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Norton professional book."