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Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do about It
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J. RAYMOND DePAULO Jr., M.D., is the Henry Phipps Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and founder of the Affective Disorders Clinic at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Internationally known as a clinician, teacher, and research expert on depression and manic-depressive illness, Dr. DePaulo has won many awards for research and teaching, and he has been selected as one of the "Best Doctors in America" in each of the three editions of the book.
LESLIE ALAN HORVITZ is a freelance writer based in New York.
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Acknowledgments.

Foreword.

Introduction.

PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSION.

1. The Experience of Depression.

2. The Experience of Mania: Bipolar Disorder.

3. Who Is at Risk for Depression?

4. Recognizing Depression in All Its Forms and Guises.

5. Stressful Events: When People Get Depressed.

PART TWO: UNRAVELING THE SECRETS.

6. What Do We Know About the Brain?

7. Genes and Depression: The Fateful Inheritance.

8. Hormones, Headaches, and Heart Attacks.

PART THREE: DEPRESSION AND MANIA AND DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF THE WHOLE PERSON.

9. Depression, Manic Depression, and Relationships.

10. Destructive Behavior.

11. Facing up to Suicide.

PART FOUR: TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION.

12. Getting Help for Depression.

13. Making the Diagnosis Is the First Treatment.

14. Medical Treatment.

15. The Different Kinds of Drugs.

16. Psychotherapy: Treating the Person.

17. ECT, Light, and Other Medical Treatments.

18. Alternative Treatments.

19. Hospitalization: A Guide for Patients and Families.

20. Getting Back to Normal.

21. Going Forward.

Appendix A: Insurance.

Appendix B: Helpful Organizations.

Appendix C: Helpful Books.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index.

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