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Mood Disorders - Toward a New Psychobiology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Mood Disorders - Toward a New Psychobiology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
Series: Critical Issues in Psychiatry
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In this book we present a conceptually integrated approach to
disorders of mood. These disorders are defined narrowly as the
clinical syndromes of mania and melancholia. The latter is our
particular focus, for the simple reason that it is more common and
thus more is known about it. Our approach owes much to Adolf Meyer,
who first used the term psychobiology. It was he who emphasized in
a practical way the importance of the clinician consider ing the
joint contribution of psychosocial and biological factors in the
genesis of mental disorders. However, until the 1960s, our relative
ignorance of basic mechanisms that link brain and behavior
prevented the development of a genuine psychobiological
perspective. Thus Meyer's work was concerned largely with teaching
the importance of the personal biography and a consideration of
social history in the development of mental disorder. We feel that
sufficiently rigorous data have now emerged in psychia try to
permit tentative but real psychobiological integration. Affective
illness is proba bly the most promising area for an attempt at such
a synthesis. It is our belief that the theory and clinical practice
of psychiatry now can be woven into a coherent theme, integrating
insights and evidence generated by the psychodynamic, biological,
and behavioral methods; hence in part we review the emerging
psychobiology of mood disorders with the hope that it can serve as
a generic paradigm for other psychiatric syndromes."
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