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Depression / Jacqueline Langwith, book editor.

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Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press/Gale Cengage Learning, c2009.

Depression, Mental -- Popular works.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0904/2008026074.html

9780737742466 (hardcover)

0737742461 (hardcover)

Perspectives on diseases and disorders.

168 p. : col. ill., 1 col. map ; 24 cm.

Introduction -- 1: Understanding Depression -- 1: Causes, symptoms, and treatments of depression / Paula Anne Ford-Martin and Teresa G Odle -- 2: There are many kinds of depression / Hara Estroff Marano -- 3: Scientists are making progress in understanding what causes depressive disorders / Norbert R Myslinski -- 4: Deep brain stimulation is a promising new treatment for depression / Greg Mone -- 5: Millions of American men silently suffer with depression / Julie Scelfo, Karen Springen, and Mary Carmichael -- 6: Women are more likely than men to suffer depression / National Institute of Mental Health -- 2: Controversies About Depression -- 1: Depression is a disease / Peter D Kramer -- 2: Depression is not a disease / Bruce E Levine -- 3: Antidepressants my be underprescribed / Jonathan Haidt -- 4: Antidepressants are overprescribe / Deborah Kotz -- 5: Electroconvulsive therapy can help those who are depressed / Jane E Brody -- 6: Electroconvulsive therapy is harmful / Peter Breggin -- 3: Personal Stories -- 1: Depression: My hidden disability / Adam Kahn -- 2: Postpartum depression is a cruel condition / Alex Winter -- 3: Turning tragedy into greater awareness for depression / Al Kluesner -- 4: Antidepressants saved my life / Chris Rose -- Glossary -- Chronology -- Organizations to contact -- For further reading -- Index.

From the Publisher's Website: Each volume in this timely series provides essential information on a disease or disorder (including symptoms, causes, treatments and cures); presents the controversies surrounding causes, alternative treatments, and other issues; and offers first-person narratives from people coping with the disease-either as patients, family members or caregivers. Essays are carefully edited and introduced to make them easily accessible to student researchers as well as general readers. By focusing on the controversies surrounding diseases and disorders, this series supports debate assignments and helps develop critical thinking skills, and also helps patients and family members learn about and deal with a disease or disorder. Each volume includes numerous color photos, charts, graphs and tables as well as a glossary of key terms, a chronology of developments relating to the disease or disorder, a bibliography to assist with further research, a list of organizations to contact and an index.

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