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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.895
EAN num: 9780761530084
ISBN number: 0761530088
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: September 14, 2000
Publishing house: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: September 14, 2000
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Discover Exciting New Treatments For Bipolar Disorder
Now you can maintain control of your bipolar disorder and begin enjoying life again—today! This book dispels the myths and fears surrounding bipolar disorder. It offers compassionate, practical, and immediate guidance for anyone affected by this disorder. Inside, world-renowned experts present important, life-altering advances, including:
·The causes, symptoms, and patterns of bipolar disorder
·New medications
·The latest psychiatric findings
·Cutting-edge treatment models
·Complementary therapies that work
·Effective and practical tools for parenting your bipolar child
·And much more!
'This easy-to-read book demystifies the illness and teaches without scaring. A real addition to mental health literature!' —Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
'This creative, authoritative, state-of-the-art book is an enormously valuable tool in dealing with depression. Written from three unique perspectives, it is certain to profoundly impact the lives of patients and their families.' —Martin Keller, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University
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This is by far one of the most informative books on Bipolar Disorder. It's straight and to the point with tib bids of information for the family too. I highly recommend it to those who are seeking as much information as you can get and use it as a tool to educate your love ones.
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This book takes a different perspective on bipolar disorder. The book, while it has clinical elements, is not so cut and dried as many other books are on bipolar disorder. There is more discusion of the human impact of bipolar disorder, both on the patient and on their families and friends. I wish there were more books that really got into how this disease affects the people around the patient; most of them tend to concentrate on the patient, which is important, but bipolar disorder has an enormous impact on the families, friends and communities in which the patient lives. I really wish that the medical community would take that more into account and provide treatment plans that can involve the family and friends.
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I am bipolar & highly recommend this book. It's one of the few that actually offer some hope. While reading the reviews, I've noticed most of the 4-5 star reviews are by people such as myself, who are also bipolar. Others who give it low ratings seem to use anonymous names & refer to the bipolar co-author as "loopy" and "illogical." These terms strike me as common, but ignorant, stereotypes. The pharmaceutical companies are obviously going to be unhappy with this book.
This is one of the few books I won't give away. However, I will buy it for friends & give it as a gift.
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This book includes basic information on mood disorders, including major depression, mania, and hypomania, all components of what used to be called manic-depression and is now known as bipolar disorder.
I found other books more helpful as far as scientific knowledge and explication. I found Kay Redfield Jamison's books insightful, inspiring, as well as incredibly knowledgeable. I found this book annoying, and it relied too heavily on the double whammy of an explanation or point made by one of the medical authors with a lay person follow-up by Nancy, a patient with bipolar disorder whose experiences and anecdotes are leaned on heavily throughout the book. In trying to warm up what they perhaps feared might be an overly objective, medical reference book, which it is far, far from being anyway, the authors used Nancy as a device to humanize the condition.
I got very tired of Nancy and her loopy examples. When not preening over the authors' attention as the pet subject of the book, she was just illogical and somewhat strident or annoying. She had a very definite "voice," which to me was loud and probably possessing a strong New York accent. I feel for Nancy and her experiences with this disorder, but her examples had no resonance for me and detracted from any actual information.
Go for Jamison definitely and browse through some other newer sources. Skip this one.
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Unless you are a layperson and very new to bipolar disorder, this book is just a regurgitation of very old techniques. What's more, the regurgitation is often wrong. Anyone who has dealt with this illness for more than a year will know more than this book can teach them.
I would recommend almost any book over this one. Dr. Fieve's book Moodswing is particularly good, as is anything by Kay Jamison.
If all you want is a feel-good, fast read, not particularly enlightening book, this might be for you. Otherwise, keep looking. Anyone you know with bipolar, or you, if you are afflicted, will be thankful for it.
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