2006•Medical Entomology and ZoologyRequires access

Melancholia: The Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment of Depressive Illness

Michael Alan Taylor, Max Fink

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List of patient vignettes Acknowledgements Preface 1. Melancholia: a conceptual history 2. Melancholia defined 3. Defining melancholia by psychopathology 4. Defining melancholia: laboratory tests 5. Examination for melancholia 6. The differential diagnosis of melancholia 7. Suicide in melancholia 8. Electroconvulsive therapy for melancholia 9. Achieving effective ECT 10. The validity of the pharmacotherapy literature in melancholia 11. Basic pharmacotherapy for melancholic patients 12. Pharmacotherapy of melancholia: complicating circumstances.

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Key concepts: Melancholia, Psychology, Electroconvulsive therapy, Psychotherapist, Pharmacotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Psychopathology, Psychiatry