The Bipolar Spectrum - Joel Paris

The Bipolar Spectrum

Diagnosis or Fad?

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
120 Seiten
2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-11716-7 (ISBN)
59,95 inkl. MwSt
Dr. Paris opens discussion about the over-diagnosis of bipolar disorder and the negative impact of this development on clinical care. Combining research findings and personal experiences, Dr. Paris documents the damage of over-diagnosis and explores alternative treatments patients could benefit from.
In the 1970s, author Joel Paris was one of the first doctors in his hospital to prescribe lithium to a psychiatric patient. In the wake of the drug’s success, both in that case and countless others, why this book? As Dr. Paris’ historical examination of bipolar diagnosis and critique of the spectrum demonstrates, medicine has often been prone to fads that are assumed correct until proven wrong by science. This book opens discussion about the overdiagnosis of bipolar disorder and the negative impact of this development on clinical care. Dr. Paris explores why patients are being classified as bipolar on dubious grounds and are being prescribed drugs they do not need. He explains the differences between bipolar disorder and depression without mania, personality disorders characterized by unstable mood, and impulsive disorders. A separate chapter discusses the unique issues present in the field of child psychiatry. Fads remain popular as long as they answer elusive and complex questions. Unfortunately, the bipolar spectrum being used to explain a wide variety of psychopathological phenomena has caused classic bipolar disorder to become almost lost in the shuffle. Combining research findings and personal experiences, Dr. Paris documents the damage of overdiagnosis and explores alternative treatments patients could benefit from.

Joel Paris, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University. He is also a Research Associate at the SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, and heads personality clinics at two hospitals. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

Introduction. Part I: Concepts. The Bipolar Diagnosis. "Diagnostic Creep" in the Bipolar Spectrum. Affective Instability. Part II: Disorders. Differential Diagnosis of Unstable Mood. Bipolarity and Personality Disorders. Bipolarity and Childhood Behavioral Disorders. Part III: Implications. How Psychiatric Fads Develop. The Impact of Overdiagnosis.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Neurologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 1-138-11716-1 / 1138117161
ISBN-13 978-1-138-11716-7 / 9781138117167
Zustand Neuware
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