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Mood Disorders :

1461327296

9781461327295

b548590

Mood Disorders :

[Book]

Toward a New Psychobiology

by Peter C. Whybrow, Hagop S. Akiskal, William T. McKinney.

Boston, MA

Springer US

1984

(244 pages)

Critical issues in psychiatry.

I. Overview, History, and Classification of Mood Disorders --;1. Mood Disorders: An Introduction --;2. Mood Disorders: Historical Perspective and Current Models of Explanation --;3. Clinical and Familial Subtypes of Mood Disorders: Observation, Opinion, and Purpose --;II. Elements of Present Knowledge --;4. Attachment and Loss --;5. The Meaning of Loss: Psychoanalytic Explorations --;6. The Neurobiological Foundations of Behavior: Environmental Challenge and Response --;7. The Emerging Neurobiology of Mood Disorder --;III. Toward a Synthesis --;8. Theoretical Aspects of Living Systems: Philosophical Pitfalls and Dynamic Constructs --;9. Toward a Psychobiological Integration: Affective Illness as a Final Common Path to Adaptive Failure --;10. Implications for Clinical Practice, Training, and Research --;Author Index.

In this book we present a conceptually integrated approach to disorders of mood. It was he who emphasized in a practical way the importance of the clinician consider- ing the joint contribution of psychosocial and biological factors in the genesis of mental disorders.

Medicine.

Neurosciences.

Psychiatry.

by Peter C. Whybrow, Hagop S. Akiskal, William T. McKinney.

Hagop S Akiskal

Peter C Whybrow

William T McKinney

[Book]

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