Saturday, September 12, 2009

Complete Mental Health

COMPLETE MENTAL HEALTH: A GO-TO GUIDE FOR CLINICIANS AND PATIENTS

To be published by WW Norton 2010

LIST OF CHAPTERS

Chapter 1: Behind the Wizard’s Curtain: What’s Normal?                                                           

Chapter 2:  Bedlam Classified: Overview of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment             

Chapter 3:  Despair’s Pit:  The Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression                                   

Chapter 4:  Up the Down Elevator: The Bipolar Spectrum                                                           

Chapter 5:  A Mind Besieged: Schizophrenia and Delusional Disorders                                   

Chapter 6:  Freeze Frame:  Anxiety and Related Disorders                                                           

Chapter 7:  Worry Wounds:  Psychosomatic Illness                                                                        

Chapter 8: Those Low Down, Mind Messin’ Waiting in the Doctors Office Blues:                        

Somatoform and Factitious Disorders

Chapter 9:  Excuses Extraordinaire:  Personality Patterns, Conflicts, and Disorders                       

Chapter 10:  Traitors of Denial:  Addictions and Abuse                                                           

Chapter 11:  Childhood Interrupted: Emotional Problems of Children and Adolescents           

Chapter 12:  Dulled Wit:  Alzheimer’s and Other Memory Problems                                   

Chapter 13:  The Viagra Monologues:  Sexual Dysfunction and Romantic Resolution           

Chapter 14:  Nature’s Soft Nurse:  Sleep Disorders                                                                       

Chapter 15:  Pills, Poisons, and Placebos: Psychopharmacology                                               

Chapter 16:  Mending Shadows:  Psychotherapy                                                                       

Chapter 17: Making Change: Overcoming Emotional Illness