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A basic resource guide for patients and their families, Everyone's Everyday Guide to Practical Psychiatry provides a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of modern psychiatric practice. This one-volume guide by author and psychiatrist W. Edison Houpt delivers, in layman's terms, an overview of how doctors think, why they make their medical decisions, and what those decisions might mean. With more than ninety diagrams, charts, and tables, Houpt answers a wide range of questions regarding mental illness, psychotherapy, and treatment with drugs. He also discusses major disorders such as...

The book is divided into three parts. PART ONE provides a very brief introduction to depression and gives an overview of our current understanding of depression. PART TWO is rather unique in that it presents a number of fictionalized-but realistic-cases of people who develop all the types of depression: the reader may want to compare his experiences to those of the fictionalized cases. PART THREE gives a succinct but comprehensive overview of all the current treatments available for depression. This newest book is offered in the hope that it will help readers recognize early warning signs of...