A Mood apart : The Thinker's Guide to Emotion and Its Disorders
By Peter C. WhybrowFrom one of the country's most distinguished psychiatrists and an internationally renowned authority in the field comes a compassionate and important exploration of depression and manic depression-the crippling mood disorders that affect 35 percent of today's population.aA Mood Apart: - explains how science has come to understand those unusual mood states that lie just beyond behaviors that we all associate with being alive and well.- asserts mood disorders are afflictions of the self-disorders that signal something is fundamentally wrong with our internal mechanisms of regulation and control-and are not a problem of will power or a sign of personal weakness. Mood disorders are a physical ailment and should be treated with the same kind of sympathy and care a medical doctor treats other physiological disorders.- examines the demographics of mood disorders over the past few decades, which show a fascinating correlation with upper-class creative professionals.- offers case studies of men and women grappling with mood disorders.- addresses such critical and common questions as: If moods are normal, how then do we understand mood disorder? How do we know when moodiness has crossed over into being a disorder? Is treatment always necessary? Does therapy work or only medication?
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Book details
- Paperback
- 363 pages
- English
- 006097740X
- 9780060977405
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