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Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression
The revolution in psychiatry that began in earnest in the 1960s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. Hailed as the most outstanding book in the biomedical sciences when it was originally published in 1990, Manic-Depressive Illness was the first to survey this massive body of evidence comprehensively and to assess its mean...more
Hardcover, 1262 pages
Published
March 1st 2007
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published 1990)
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It's twenty years old but it's still the best/practically only book of its kind: basically a giant, blisteringly dull and colossally thorough version of Robert Burton, but much more boring. Come on, guys, update this fucker. I've been rereading it since 1990 and I want at least a new typeface, if not a few handsome color plates. Oh, and you might finally join the DSM-V and give up and call it bipolar disorder, too.
EDITED TO ADD that I am a giant dork: the second edition came out in 2007.
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EDITED TO ADD that I am a giant dork: the second edition came out in 2007.
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