Heston, Leonard L.

Mending minds : a guide to the new psychiatry of depression, anxiety, and other serious mental disorders / Leonard L. Heston. - New York : W. H. Freeman, c1992. - xi, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm + pbk - Series of books in psychology .

Bibliography: p. 214-221. - Includes index.

Part 1: Mood -- Depression -- Bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness) -- Part 2: Thinking -- Schizophrenia -- Alzheimer's disease and other dementing illnesses -- Part 3: Anxiety -- Anxiety disorders -- Part 4: Drug abuse -- Abuse of alcohol and other sedatives -- Abuse of stimulant, hallucinogenic and narcotic drugs -- Part 5: Behavior -- Antisocial personality and somatoform disorder -- Sex, Syphilis and AIDS -- Part 6: The future of psychiatry -- The causes of mental illness.

0716721589 (hbk) 0716721678 (pbk)

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Psychiatry--Popular works.
Depression, Mental--Popular works
Anxiety--Popular works.
Mental illness.

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