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An authoritative guide to understanding and treating depression in the medically ill

Depression in Medical Illness is based on the fact that depression and medical illness are inextricably bound together and must be viewed through a single lens in order to truly understand, diagnose, and treat them.

Throughout the book, the authors emphasize not simply a critical distillation and balanced summary of the available empirical data, but equally important, an active synthesis, formulation, and analysis of that evidence.This informs a contemporary biomedical understanding, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. All of the chapters are authored by members of the Department of Psychiatry at the world-renowned Brigham and Women's Hospital. In chapters devoted to specific medical disorders, psychiatrists with particular expertise in those areas have been joined by other eminent Brigham medical and surgical specialists or subspecialists. This makes these chapters valuable not just to psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, but to a wide range of medical specialists as well.

Logically Organized Into Four Sections:

Core Concepts - provides a conceptual and intellectual framework for understanding depressive illness in the context of medical illness

Assessment and Treatment of Depression in Medically Ill Patients - discusses the general principles of depression diagnosis and treatment

Depression in Medical Illness - assesses what we know about depression when it is comorbid with the full range of major medical disorders

Special Populations and Settings - devoted to special patient populations and the importance of the settings in which care is delivered

Editors:

Arthur J. Barsky, MD, Senior Psychiatrist, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital.

David A. Silbersweig, MD, Senior Psychiatrist, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for the Neurosciences, Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Associate Editor:

Robert J. Boland, MD, Vice-Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

Contents:

SECTION 1: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSION IN THE CONTEXT OF CO-OCCURRING MEDICAL ILLNESS: BASIC CONCEPTS
Chapter 1: The Relationships Between Depression and Medical Illness
Michael Mufson, David Gitlin
Chapter 2: The Neurobiology of Depression and Pathophysiological Mechanisms Common to Depression and Medical Disorder
David Silbersweig, Jill Goldstein, Arielle Stanford

SECTION 2: ASSESSING & TREATING DEPRESSION IN THE MEDICALLY ILL
Chapter 3: Assessment
David Wolfe, Jane Erb
Chapter 4: General Considerations in Treatment
Jane Erb, Megan Oser, Arielle Stanford

SECTION 3: DEPRESSION IN SPECIFIC MEDICAL ILLNESSES
Chapter 5: Depression and Neurological illness
Laura Safar, Samata Sharma; Neurology co-authors Allan Ropper, Kirk Daffner
Chapter 6: Depression and Cancer
Ilana Braun, Montie Meyer, John Peteet; Oncology co- Ross Berkowitz
Chapter 7: Depression and Cardiovascular Disease
Meghan Kolodziej, David Wolfe; Cardiology co- Eldrin Lewis
Chapter 8: Depression and Gynecological Conditions
Laura Miller, Geena Athappilly, Orit Avni-Baron, Danielle Carusi
Chapter 9: Depression in Obstetrical Conditions
Chapter 10: Depression and Rheumatological and Immune Disorders
Charles Surber; Rheumatology co- Nancy Shadick
Chapter 11: Depression & Infectious Disease
John Grimaldi, Megan Oser
Chapter 12: Depression and Dermatological Disease
Chapter 13: Depression and Gastrointestinal Disease
Sejal Shah, David Gitlin, Megan Oser
Chapter 14: Depression in Endocrine Disorders
Charles Surber, David Gitlin; Endocrinology co-author Ellen Seeley
Chapter 15: Depression in Renal and Metabolic Disorders
Chapter 16: Depression and Pulmonary Disease
David Wolfe

SECTION 4: SPECIAL TOPICS: POPULATIONS, SETTINGS, SERVICES, & THE LIFE CYCLE
Chapter 17: Depression in the Medically Ill Child
David DeMaso (Children's Hospital Boston)
Chapter 18: Depression in the Ill Elderly Patient
Olivia Okereke
Chapter 19: Depression in the Surgical Patient
David Wolfe, Meghan Kolodizej
Chapter 20: Depression in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Chapter 21: Depression and Pain
Ajay Wasan, Robert Jamison
Chapter 22: Depression and Sleep Disorders
John Winkelman
Chapter 23: Depression in the Addicted Patient
Joji Suzuki
Chapter 24: Cultural and Ethnic Influences on Depression in the Medically Ill
Hongtu Chen
Chapter 25: Depression in the General Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Room, & Primary Care Setting
David Gitlin, Arthur Barsky; Co- Lori Tishler,
Chapter 26: Delivering Depression Care

SECTION 5: FUTURE DIRECTIONS & IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 27: New directions in understanding and treatment
David Silbersweig