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There are many books that contain useful
information about depression and bipolar disorder (manic depression). For your
convenience, I have listed several books and included links to Amazon.com. I have read
some of these; others have been recommended to me but I haven't read them yet. When
possible, I have linked to the less expensive paperback editions.
Please let me know if you have any books
to add or notice a broken
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A Complete Guide to Its Diagnosis and
Treatment
Donald F. Klein MD and Paul Wender MD
I haven't read this book but I have heard the lead author, Donald Klein speak at an
MDSG lecture. He is one of the authorities on psychopharmacology |
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A Guide for Living with Depression and
Manic Depression
Mary Ellen Copeland, M.S.
This is a workbook for the day-to day management of the disease by a Social worker who
also suffers from manic depression |
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Essential Facts and Up-To-The-Minute
Information on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery (Books for Women by Women)
Jane S. Ferber M.D. and Suzanne Levert
A basic overview of depression with a focus on women, including physical (such as
hormones) factors and social factors. Recommended by E. |
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Harold H. Bloomfield, MD and Peter
McWilliams
This is an easy-to-read book with information in small bites and much of it in
bulleted lists. Even pages contain information and odd pages contain inspirational quotes.
- Recommended by E.
"While this book is not as comprehensive as many other books on depression, I found
this to be a very good book when my depression was at its worst, because I could read it
in small chunks."
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DSM-IV (4th Ed)
This book has all the official guidelines for diagnosing mental illnesses.
It is not
meant for the consumer, it is not a self-help manual, but rather a tool used by mental
health care professionals.
Publisher's Description:
The DSM IV provides the only comprehensive classification of all recognized psychiatric
disorders in print. This edition features increased emphasis on multicultural influences,
development across the lifespan, and substance abuse disorders. More than 1,000 clinicians
and researchers have contributed to the revision of this classic reference |
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Jack M. Gorman, M.D.
With detailed descriptions of all the psychiatric medications available today,
including their uses, side-effects, cost, dosage, and more, this book helps consumers take
an active role in their mental health and know what to expect from specific drugs |
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What You Need to Know about Prozac,
Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Serzone, Luvox and More
William S. Appleton, M.D.
A handy reference with information on the relatively newer drugs |
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53rd Edition
This is the standard drug reference for US Physicians. See below for the consumer version
Publisher's comment: The "1999 PDR" guarantees you the
security and safety of having up-to-minute official FDA-approved information on over 4,000
prescription drugs and important data on more than 250 drug manufacturers. New medicines,
new drug interaction data, the most recent side effects findings, and certain drugs now
removed from the market are all covered. |
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Edited by David W. Sifton, Physicians' Desk
Reference
This is the paperback, consumer version of the PDR. |
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Lewis A. Opler and Carol Bialkowski
Alphabetized by generic drug name and cross-indexed by brand name, this essential
guidebook profiles the drugs, outlining specific uses, side effects, special precautions,
risk of interactions, recommended dosage, dangers of overdosage, and affects on pregnancy
and lactation. |
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Living and Coping With Depression Fallout
Anne Sheffield
The author attended the NYC Mood Disorder Support Group while writing this book. Recommended
by Li |
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How to Stop Controlling Others and Start
Caring for Yourself
Melody Beattie
A guide for codependents on how to stop controlling others and start caring for
themselves. Recommended by Li |
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Melody Beattie
In the companion volume to her popular book, Codependent No More, Beattie teaches
individuals how to do more than just survive. She teaches them to grow and to realize that
recovery from codependency is a lifelong journey of self-care. Recommended by Li |
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Laura Epstein Rosen and Xavier
Francisco Amador |
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Essential Facts and Up-To-The-Minute
Information on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery
(Books for Women by Women)
Jane S. Ferber M.D. and Suzanne Levert
A basic overview of depression with a focus on women, including physical (such as
hormones) factors and social factors. Recommended by E |
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Susan M. Lark, M.D.
A woman's all-natural guide for relieving over 150 symptoms of PMS. Not
about depression, but it may be helpful to women whose illnesses are worsened by their
menstrual cycle. Recommended by E. |
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A Memoir
Elizabeth Wurtzel
This best-seller tells the story of a 20-something woman's journey through depression.
- Recommended by E:
"This book articulated many things about depression that I could not. While
reading this, I highlighted some passages I added comments so that when my boyfriend read
the book he could understand better some of the things I was going through."
Also by Wurtzel
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A Journey through Depression
Tracy Thompson
The story of a woman's journey through depression, which she refers to as "The
Beast".
- Recommended by E:
"This is another book which verbalized many of the things a depressed
person goes through and it helped me to better understand myself. While battling
depression, including a hospitalization, Thompson became a successful journalist.
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Kay Redfield Jamison
A memoir of life with Bipolar Disorder. This is the story of successful psychologist
who suffers from Manic-Depression. It is highly recommended. Jamison discusses both her
depressive and manic episodes and it is relevant for people who suffer from both bipolar
and unipolar depression. Recommended by E and Li |
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Susanna Kaysen
From Amazon: In 1967 18-year old Susanna Kaysen voluntarily admitted herself to a
two-year stay at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric institute, with a diagnosis of
"borderline personality." Twenty-five years later the author recalls her fellow
patients, their doctors and "keepers," and her journey to recovery.
- Recommended by E:
"Although Kaysen was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, her
story is very interesting to anyone with depression, especially her description of
mind vs. brain"
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- Living With Manic-Depressive Illness
Patty Duke, Mary Lou Pinckert, Gloria Hochman
From a review by Kirkus Reviews , April 1, 1992: Duke tells the story of
her manic-depressive illness and its successful treatment, while in alternating chapters
medical-writer Hochman explains the facts of the disease and the methods of treatment
currently available. . . . Her manic-depressive disorder began to manifest itself when she
was a young woman living in Hollywood, at the peak of her career, starring in The Patty
Duke Show. As the illness escalated, her life degenerated into frequent suicide attempts,
drug dependency, wrecked relationships, tantrums on the set. . .Finally, her illness was
diagnosed and successfully treated with lithium, which she takes to this day and to which,
she says, she owes her present stable, happy marriage and her very life. Hochman provides
information on the various forms of depression and the various guises that bipolar
(manic-depressive) illness can take, identifies people at risk for these diseases,
discusses the link between manic-depressive disorder and creativity, and surveys medical
treatments and family-support techniques that can help the sufferer. . . Duke shows
bravery in telling her story in all its humiliating flagrance, and undoubtedly sufferers
from this puzzling and devastating disease will find help in the explanations and
resources Hochman diligently provides. -- Copyright �1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All
rights reserved.
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A Life Beneath the Surface
Martha Manning
- From a review by Midwest Book Review:
A therapist tackles her depression and conducts an intriguing, unusual self-analysis in a
fine title which traces her downfall from a secure personality to a shattered soul.
Journal entries trace her slow downfall and eventual recovery.
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Conversations About Conquering Depression
Kathy Cronkite
From Amazon:
Uplifting, strongly researched but accessible book by Kathy Cronkite. Herself a victim of
what Winston Churchill called "the black dog,'' and here offering hope and courage,
Cronkite attacks the stigma of depression, describes the disease as it's known through the
latest research, and interviews well-known medical researchers and famed
victims--including Mike Wallace, Joan Rivers, Dick Clark, Kitty Dukakis, Rod Steiger, Rona
Barrett, Ann Buchwald, Jules Feiffer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Rose and William Styron, and
Judith Belushi Pisano. |
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My
personal selection of books written by or about people with depression or bipolar disorder
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Bo Bradley Mysteries
Abigail Padgett
The main character of these mystery novels is a woman named Bo Bradley
who happens have bipolar disorder. Bo is a child abuse investigator in San Diego who often
finds herself in the middle of a mystery. I'm a big mystery buff and I've read all
of them.
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Sylvia Plath
When I first read this semi-autobiographical novel, I didn't realize that I had
depression and that eventually I would understand the book much better than I ever wanted
to. I often wondered what would have happened to Sylvia Plath if she was born just a
a decade or two later.
Reviews On Amazon:
Literary Fiction and Classics Editor's Recommended Book
Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel.
The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a
summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s.
The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and
perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into
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Other works by Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes (Photographer)
From the Publisher: Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after
1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work.
Poems by Sylvia Plath |
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In Praise of Difficult Women
Elizabeth Wurtzel
I haven't read this, but I am a big fan of Prozac Nation
From Amazon.com:
Elizabeth Wurtzel, an ex-rock critic for The New Yorker, won controversial fame with her
best-selling 1994 memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, which described
how Prozac saved the precocious Harvard grad from suicide. Her second book, Bitch is a
celebration of the defiant, rock-and-roll spirit of self-destructive women through the
ages: Delilah, Amy Fisher, Princess Di, and hundreds more. |
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