Book chapter
Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy in Mood Disorders: Bipolar Disorder
Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology, pp 105-123
2013
Abstract
Bipolar disorder, once considered an easily treatable illness, is a severe, recurrent mental illness that often poorly responds to treatment. Bipolar patients spend nearly 50% of their
lives with symptoms (Judd et al., 2002). Because the illness frequently begins in adolescence
or early adulthood, it has dual consequences-the burden of the illness and the ravaging
effects on normal development. Patients with bipolar disorder must accept that they have
a chronic illness, which requires long-term pharmacological treatment. Childbearing and
career choices are also impacted by the diagnosis.
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- Title
- Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy in Mood Disorders: Bipolar Disorder
- Creators
- Wei Du - Psychiatry
- Contributors
- Irismar Reis de Oliveira (Editor)Thomas Schwartz (Editor)Stephen M Stahl (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology, pp 105-123
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Other Identifier
- 991019174743804721