psychopathology: depression
We often compare the psychiatric symptom depression or depressed mood to sadness or grief in response to a loss, but one of the essential features is loss of interest in life activities. The term is used interchangeably to refer to a mental disorder or to a mood state or symptom.
Also: depressive, major depression, dysthymia, Dysthymic Disorder, mania, bipolar disorder, manic depressive disorder, affective disorder
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
- Dealing with Depression (Pfizer)
- Depressed Anonymous
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depression
- National Foundation for Depressive Illness, Inc.
Practice Guidelines
- Agency for Health Care Policy & Research (AHCPR) (in Primary Care)
- American Medical Directors Association
- Harvard Psychopharmacology Algorithms Project
- University of Michigan Health System
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- Allen, Jon Coping With Depression: From Catch-22 to Hope
Paperback 2005
- About a Boy VHS | VHS subtitled in Spanish | DVD | DVD Widescreen 2002
- Bruno, Frank Joe Defeat Depression - Understand Your Sadness-And Banish It Forever! (Life's Little Keys - Self-Help Strategies for a Healthier, Happier You) Hardcover 1997
- Danqua, Meri Nana-Ama Willow Weep for Me - A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression - A Memoir Hardcover 1998 Meri Nana-Ama Danqua, the author, is a native of Ghana. She has written a powerful memoir of her struggle to understand and overcome clinical depression. What makes her journey so compelling is her relentless pursuit of what it means to be black, female and struggling with depression in a society that makes it difficult for black women to be recognized as vulnerable and emotionally complex. She describes, with remarkable honesty and an artist's sensibilities, what it feels like to be depressed. Willow Weep for Me illustrates how clinical depression is different for black women. From the difficulty of recognition of its symptoms, to finding therapists capable of relating to a black patient, to coping with the stigma of being viewed as weak, Ms Danqua alerts women who suffer in silence to the fact that depression is an illness they can recognize and fight. This book not only provides insight to anyone interested in how race and gender affect a person's treatment and recovery, but the courage found in the discovery of the resources needed to regain one's life. This meditation on survival will help pave the way for others to seek the treatment and support they need to overcome the stigma and alienation of clinical depression. Review by Barbara Grubel, W/AMI
- Ebert, D. (Editor), Ebmeier, K. P.(Editor) New Models of Depression (Advances in Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 19) Hardcover 1998
- Karp, David A. Speaking of Sadness - Depression, Disconnection, and the Meaning of Illness Hardcover 1996 | Paperback 1997
- Manning PhD, Martha Undercurrents - A Life Beneath the Surface 1996 Written from the author's own experience with depression, this book uses a narrative mode and reads as if you were "peeking into her diary." Her accounts of the descent into, and rise from depression, are honest, humorous and hopeful. Manning is a clinical psychologist and former professor of psychology at George Mason University. Reviewed by Susan Cleva, W/AMI
- Mathiasen, Patrick, MD, et al Late Life Depression Mass Market Paperback 1998
- Mays, John Bentley In the Jaws of the Black Dogs - A Memoir of Depression Hardcover 1999
- Medina, John Depression- How It Happens How It's Healed Paperback 1998 Provides an excellent overview for laymen covering every aspect of depression. -Jeanette J Chen, PhD
- Mondimore, Francis Depression, the Mood Disease Paperback 1995 | Hardcover 1993
- Mr. Jones DVD Richard Gere, Lena Olin 1993
- O'Connor, Richard Undoing Depression - What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You Paperback 1999 | Hardcover 1997
- Papolos, Janice and Dimitri Overcoming Depression Paperback 1997 Everything you want to know about depression is in this well organized book. Includes descriptions of the disease, up-to-date treatment, research and more. Reviewed by Susan Cleva, W/AMI
- Smith, Jeffery Where the Roots Reach for Water - A Personal & Natural History of Melancholia (Hardcover - August 1999)
- Solomon, Andrew The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Hardcover - June 2001)
- Styron, William Darkness Visible - A Memoir of Madness Paperback 1992 A first-hand account of the author's desolating descent into depression. Mr. Styron writes, "the agony and horror of my ordeal is so overwhelming as to be quite beyond expression." Depression is an illness that affects millions, but is still widely misunderstood. This book should help educate us all. Reviewed by Susan Cleva, W/AMI
- Williams, Christopher J. Overcoming Depression: A Five Areas Approach (Paperback - June 2001)
- Yapko, Michael D., Ph.D. Hand-Me-Down Blues: How to Stop Depression from Spreading in Families Hardcover | Paperback 2000
