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Depression
Title:
Depression
Author:
Berne, Emma Carlson, 1979-
Publication Information:
Detroit : Greenhaven, [2007]

©2007
Physical Description:
184 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
What is depression? -- Depression is a serious mental illness / Dysthymia : a lasting depressed mood / Depression through history / Depression's role in bodily disease / Depression and suicide / Understanding postpartum depression / Personal perspectives on depression -- Motherhood and depression / Relief of medication / A story of teenage depression / My experience with deep brain stimulation / Treatments for depression -- An overview of alternative therapies / Varieties of psychotherapy / Omega-3s and depression / Understanding transcranial magnetic stimulation / Debate over antidepressants -- History of antidepressants / Current antidepressants are flawed but needed / Antidepressants' link to adolescent suicide / Controversy over medicating depression
ISBN:
9780737736458

9780737724516
Format :
Book