
Bipolar
Resources
Description
Key Features
- Explains differences between Bipolar and Unipolar Disorders
- Provides crucial information on psychotherapy and mood-stabilizing medications as treatment options
- Demonstrates diagnostic interviewing for physicians and patients
- Discusses differential diagnoses for Bipolar
- Includes difficult-to-diagnose case studies of various presentations in Bipolar
Readership
Researchers and graduate students in psychology studying bipolar disorder. Psychologists and psychiatrists treating patients with bipolar disorder
Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Chapter Summaries
2. The Spectrum of Mood Disorders: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, and Unipolar
3. A 2,000-year History of Bipolar
4. Bipolar Is a Neurogenetic Disease of the Brain, Not a Psychological Condition
5. The Disaster of a Missed Diagnosis; How It Happens
6. The Introduction of "Schizophrenia" Deprived Bipolar Patients of Proper Care; a History
7. The Diagnosis of Bipolar Recovers from the 1970s to the Present; the Continuum Concept Ends the Kraepelinian Dichotomy and "Schizophrenia"
8. Psychotic Mood Disorders Are Disorders of Thought and Mood; A Damaged Brain Selective-Attention Filter Explains Psychotic Manic Thought
9. Paranoid Delusions Explained by Manic Grandiosity and the Guilt of Depression; There Is No "Schizophrenia"
10. The Differential Diagnoses for Bipolar
11. Difficult-to-Diagnose Case Studies Demonstrating Wide Variations in Presentations
12. Psychotic Perpetrators of Violence, Murder, and Mass Murder Are Bipolar
13. The Initial Diagnostic Interview for Physicians and Patients
14. Treatment of Bipolar: What to Expect; How to Manage the Chaos
15. Conclusions and Future Considerations for Bipolar
Product details
- No. of pages: 570
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: April 30, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128192566
- eBook ISBN: 9780128192573
About the Author
C. Raymond Lake
