This practical guide to mental health addresses everything from anxiety and PMS to depression and sexual dysfunction. It's an essential reference to how each stage of a woman's life may affect her mental and emotional well being, what happens when things go wrong, and what can be done about it --from self-help to the latest treatments in the fast-changing field of pharmaceuticals.
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What with social pressures, hormonal surges, and reproductive system vicissitudes, it's no wonder many women find themselves suffering some form of depression, anxiety, or eating disorder. And while men and women suffer equally from mental illness statistically, their patterns and vulnerabilities tend to be different. There is peace of mind in just owning a well-researched reference book written specifically for women, with their hormones, life cycles, family demands, brain chemistry, and mental health needs in mind.
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This third title in the NYU Medical Center series of health handbooks for women?following volumes on breast cancer and heart disease?focuses on what medical science currently knows about mental illness. Baron-Faust, a medical writer, notes that women suffer from depression and eating disorders in higher numbers than men, and that schizophrenia and other thought disorders are equally common in both sexes. Chapter discussions follow on these and other mental illnesses. Chapters on Mood Disorders, Anxiety and Panic, Personality Disorders and more feature informative descriptions, self-quizzes, suggested treatments utilizing psychotherapy and/or pharmacotherapy and lists of medications with their side effects. Brief and continuing stories of individual women speaking in their own words about their illnesses and treatments give the book a human face. Balanced consideration is given to the controversial issue of the role of female hormones on mental disorders, and the question of how life cycle events affect women's mental well-being is examined. There is also a chapter that delineates the differences between various psychotherapeutic approaches. The book concludes with a chapter of practical advice for maintaining mental wellness.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A book that many of us wish was available a couple of decades ago. It informs women of their options in treatment without being condescending. It says that you are not alone if you have developed psychiatric problems and you are female. It gives you the courage to confront these problems without going into denial. A must have book for every therapist working with women.
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