Depression is one of the commonest problems in clinical practice. It causes social, occupational, financial, and interpersonal difficulties. Moreover, depression also causes increased medical morbidity and mortality through suicide, accidents, and worsening of medical problems such as cardiac diseases, respiratory diseases and stroke. Most people suffering from depression first go to their general physicians or family physicians. However, most physicians are very busy and preoccupied with general medical problems. Moreover, the general physician is not well acquainted with psychiatric problems. This difficulty is further compounded by the fact that many medical illnesses may cause depression, either directly or indirectly.
Further, the medical treatment of number of physical illnesses can be complicated by depression. These many facets of depression are likely to pose a clinical problem or challenge to physicians and medical specialists.
This book attempts to help medical specialists and general physicians by introducing them to current developments and fundamental skills in appropriately diagnosing and treating depression.
Write your review for this book (optional)
Review Deleted
Your review has been deleted and won’t appear on the book anymore.
Santosh K Chaturvedi
The author of this book, Dr Santosh Kumar Chaturvedi, MD (Psychiatry) FRCPsych (UK), was previously associated with the National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, NIMHANS, Bangalore as Dean, Behavioral Sciences, and Senior Professor and Head of Department of Psychiatry. He was also the Head of Department of Mental Health Education, and Head of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services at NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
