A Mood Apart: Thinker's Guide to Emotion and Its Disorders - Couverture rigide

Whybrow, Peter C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0330354809 ISBN 13 : 9780330354806

Editeur : Picador, 1998

Synopsis

Originally published in 1997, a guide to mood and emotion disorders, written by the Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA. It discusses topics such as mental illness, depression and mania, using real life case studies to demonstrate.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"A compassionate exploration of depression and manic-depression."
-- Forecast

"The most thorough and wide-ranging discussion for lay readers about the interplay of the physical and emotional elements of depression and manic-depression... His presentation is illuminating, and the case histories demonstrate his sensitivity and skill as a clinician.... Whybrow's presentation offers a deeper understanding of, along with a humane and wise approach to these very troubling illnesses."
-- Kirkus Reviews

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter Whybrow, M.D., is chairman of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Vice Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association. In 1996, he was awarded the Gerald L. Klerman Lifetime Research Award by the NDMDA. Dr. Whybrow has lectured extensively throughout Europe and the United States. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330354809
• ISBN 13: 9780330354806
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Scheffler Axel
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible