Depressionen

Depression remained a manageable group of diseases for a considerable period, but today the diagnosis represents an endemic condition and encompasses a whole range of depressive-affective disorders. Due to the high demand for care, a variety of outpatient services, as well as special depression wards in many hospitals, have been developed at the authors= initiative to allow disorder-specific treatment of patients with severe depression. Against the background of the authors= decades of experience concentrating on patients with depression, this book shows the diversity of this clinical picture and of treatments for it & beyond the boundaries of ICD stereotypes & in a professional and scientific manner and with personal points of view, including social aspects and contemporary attitudes.

Prof. Manfred Wolfersdorf is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, as well as psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, and founder of the first depression ward in Germany. Prof. Gerd Laux is a specialist in psychiatry, psychotherapy and neurology, a qualified psychologist and, among other things, the principal editor of the journal Psychopharmakotherapie. Both authors were medical directors and chief physicians in departments of psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics for many years.