A Mood Apart: The Thinker's Guide to Emotion and Its Disorders

A Mood Apart: The Thinker's Guide to Emotion and Its DisordersFrom 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

From 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?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 02/17/1998
ISBN: 9780060977405
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.42w x 0.88d