- Caring for Depression
- Kenneth B. Wells
- Roland Sturm
- Cathy D. Sherbourne
- Lisa S. Meredith
- Although depression is a major illness affecting millions of people, it is seriously undertreated in the United States. The ongoing shift of mental-health care away from specialists and toward primary medical-care providers is causing fewer depressed patients to be appropriately diagnosed and treated. The authors urge the integration of both medical and economic considerations in designing policies for the treatment of depression.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1999
- Constructing Panic
- Lisa Capps
- Elinor Ochs
- Foreword by Jerome Bruner
- Constructing Panic offers an unprecedented analysis of one patient's experience of agoraphobia. In this novel interdisciplinary collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist, the authors propose a new view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. Capps and Ochs open up the largely overlooked potential for linguistic and narrative analysis by revealing the roots of panic and by offering a unique framework for therapeutic intervention.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- The Creation of Psychopharmacology
- David Healy
- Healy follows The Antidepressant Era with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication. Once pharmaceutical companies recognized their commercial potential, financial as well as clinical pressures drove the development of ever more aggressively marketed medications.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- A Safe Place
- Leston Havens
- Drawing on his rich experience within psychiatry, Leston Havens takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through the vast and changing landscape of psychotherapy and psychiatry today. Closely examining the dynamics of the doctor-patient exchange, he seeks to locate and describe the elusive therapeutic environment within which psychological healing most effectively takes place.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1996