Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 272 pages
- Published by: Houghton Mifflin
- Edition: 1st Edition April 26, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0618335021
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0618335022
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Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.4 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Prozac? Wellbutrin? Celexa? Talk therapy? People experiencing depression and/or anxiety (the two are often linked) can find themselves lost in the welter of available treatments. This volume provides clear, coherent help in sorting it all out. Charney is the chief of the Mood and Anxiety Disorder Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health; Nemeroff is the chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University’s medical school. Up-to-date with the latest research information, they are the perfect docents to the complex world of bio-psychology. After explaining how anxiety and depression are diagnosed, the authors offer step-by-step advice on how to handle them. They particularly stress the importance of getting diagnosis and treatment from a psychiatrist or other trained mental-health worker; the importance of combining medication with psychotherapy; the benefits and side effects of the latest medications; the differing symptoms of men and women, adults and children. They also discuss how to deal with the risk of suicide. This is surely one of the best handbooks available for accurate information about these two increasingly common "thieves of happiness."
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Product Description
Anxiety and depression are among the most serious medical disorders today. According to the World Health Organization, depression causes more disabilities than any other condition. Yet eighty percent of the thirty-eight million Americans suffering from these disorders get inadequate treatment.
Inspired by their work with patient-advocacy groups, world-renowned psychiatrists Charney and Nemeroff are on a mission to help everyone get the best treatment available. Charney (who spearheaded the latest National Institute of Mental Health research plan on the disorders) and Nemeroff (a top-flight researcher and clinician at Emory University) stress that any treatment must be tailored to each individual.
The Peace of Mind Prescription details the full array of medically approved drugs and therapies, highlights the latest breakthroughs, and explores future possibilities. It advocates treating most adults with a combination of psychotherapy and medication and confirms the link between serious anxiety and depression and physical diseases. The authors examine the controversial question of treating children with medication and provide vital information specific to both sexes and all ages.
The Peace of Mind Prescription arms every reader with the resources to assess the claims made for different treatments, both
mainstream and alternative. It features inspiring stories about more
than a dozen people who have overcome their anxiety and depression disorders. Fresh, authoritative, and empowering, the book is a prescription that can aid millions of people.
Reader ReviewsI am in the middle of another episode of my major, clinical anxiety and depression. I bought this book hoping for some new information or insight for someone who has a chronic condition and, unfortunately, found none for me. This appears to be an excellent book, though, that will be of major help to a person who is newly diagnosed or who thinks they may be suffering from anxiety or depression. (It puts together in one place all of the information that I wish I had when I was newly-diagnosed.) I would not have purchsed this book if the population it was meant to serve had been made clearer. I would recommend "Feeling Good" by David B. Burns, M.D. instead to those with chronic conditions. My version is from 1999, so some of the drug information isn't current, but I think there is a newer edition.
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