Taming The Tyrant

Treating Depressed Adults

Author  Dean Schuyler
Taming The Tyrant

Depression tyrannizes a startling 17.4 million Americans today, irrespective of age, culture, or socioeconomic status.

It is not a simple or unitary disorder. It may appear as the high of mania, the nagging low of dysthymia, as seasonal blues or suicidal thoughts; it may be disguised as or occur along with other physical or mental disorders.

Taming the Tyrant guides clinicians in diagnosing, understanding, and treating the full spectrum of depressive disorders. An indispensable reference in today's time-restricted managed care environment, it is designed to reduce trial-and-error by enabling clinicians to identify each depressive disorder sooner and to respond with the treatments most likely to prove effective for that disorder.

Dr. Schuyler teams 25 years of clinical experience in psychiatry with an intelligent analysis…