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Endocrine Psychiatry - Solving the Riddle of Melancholia (Hardcover)
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Endocrine Psychiatry - Solving the Riddle of Melancholia (Hardcover)
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The riddle of melancholia has stumped generations of doctors. It is
a serious depressive illness that often leads to suicide and
premature death. The disease's link to biology has been intensively
studied. Unlike almost any other psychiatric disorder, melancholia
sufferers have abnormal endocrine functions. Tests capable of
separating melancholia from other mood disorders were useful
discoveries, but these tests fell into disuse as psychiatrists lost
interest in biology and medicine. In the nineteenth century,
theories about the role of endocrine organs encouraged endocrine
treatments that loomed prominently in practice. This interest faded
in the 1930s but was revived by the discovery of the adrenal
hormone cortisol and descriptions of its abnormal functioning in
melancholic and psychotic depressed patients. New endocrine tests
were devised to plumb the secrets of mood disorders. Two colorful
individuals, Bernard Carroll and Edward Sachar, led this revival
and for a time in the 1960s and 1970s intensive research interest
established connections between hormone dysfunctions and behavior.
In the 1980s, psychiatrists lost interest in hormonal approaches
largely because they did not correlate with the arbitrary
classification of mood disorders. Today the relation between
endocrines and behavior have been disregarded.
This history traces the enthusiasm of biological efforts to solve
the mystery of melancholia and their fall. Using vibrant language
accessible to family care practitioners, psychiatrists and
interested lay readers, the authors propose that a useful, a
potentially live-saving connection between medicine and psychiatry,
has been lost.
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