Taylor, Michael Alan & Fink, Max - Melancholia. The Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment of Depressive Illness.pdf

Melancholia
This book provides prehensive review of melancholia as a severe disorder of mood,
associated with suicide, psychosis, and catatonia. The syndrome is defined with a clear
diagnosis, prognosis, and range of management strategies, diVerentiated from other similar
psychiatric, neurological, and general medical conditions. It challenges accepted doctrines in
the classification and biology of the mood disorders and defines melancholia as a treatable
mental illness. Described for millennia in medical texts and used as a term in literature and
poetry, melancholia was included within early versions of the major diagnostic classification
systems, but lost favor in later editions. This book updates the arguments for the diagnosis,
describes its characteristics in detail, and promotes treatment and prevention. The book oVers
great hope to those with a disorder too often misdiagnosed and often fatal. It should be read by
all those responsible for the management of patients with mood disorders.
Michael Alan Taylor is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Rosalind Franklin University of
Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Max Fink is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook, USA.
Melancholia
The diagnosis, pathophysiology, and
treatment of depressive illness
Michael Alan Taylor, .
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Rosalind Franklin
University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL,
and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of Michigan School of Medicine,
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Max Fink, .
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus,
State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
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