Antidepressants and Suicide: A Balanced Overview

by Julio Licinio (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA); Ma-Li Wong (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA)

• ISBN13: 9780470042601
• ISBN10: 0470042605
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Antidepressants and Suicide: A Balanced Overview fills the need for a book treating the issue of antidepressant use and suicide with careful attention to real data and thorough scholarship. This unique title presents this important and often painful issue with balanced, unbiased perspective. Carefully reviews the science and clinical therapy for treating depression and suicide, with special focus on antidepressant medications Thoroughly covers antidepressant use and suicide in the international context Includes special chapters on antidepressant use and suicidal tendencies in children and adolescents Contributors include internationally renowned, top authorities in depression, suicide, and psychopharmacology Antidepressants and Suicide: A Balanced Overview is an essential resource for psychiatrists and other physicians, as well as pharmacologists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and other allied health personnel who deal on a daily basis with patients suffering from depression. The book is also prepared with educated patients and their families in mind, and offers clear, rational discussion in non-technical language of depression and its treatment.