Understanding depression /

• Main Author: Ainsworth, Patricia, M.D
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, �2000.
• Series: Understanding health and sickness series.
• Subjects: Depression, Mental.; Affective disorders.; D�epression.; Troubles affectifs.; PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Depression.; SELF-HELP > Mood Disorders.; SELF-HELP > Depression.; Depression.; Mood Disorders.; Electronic books.

"Understanding Depression explores the reality of the illness from the authors twin perspectives as a psychiatrist and as a family member who experienced the tragedy of depression firsthand. Using examples from her practice, she discusses the different type of depression, the kinds of people at...

Table of Contents:

• What Is Depression?
• Who Gets Depressed?
• The Causes of Depression
• What Happens in the Brain
• Treatment
• Helping the Depressive
• Searching for a Cure
• Sources of Additional Information
• Medications.