Norman Sartorius

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is probably the psychiatric disorder for which most significant progress has been made on the last 20 years concerning p…

Research evidence concerning the precursors (a sign or symptom that heralds another) and prodromes (an early or premonitory symptom of a disease) of t…

According to the World Health Organization’s World Health Report 2001, one family in four worldwide has at least one member currently suffering from a…

Recently, there has been a growing awareness of the multiple interrelationships between depression and cancer. Depression and Cancer is devoted to the…

Around the world, a vast number of children and adolescents suffer from mental and neurological disorders and only a small proportion of them receive …

Recently, there has been a growing awareness of the multiple interrelationships between depression and various physical diseases. Patients with psychi…

Dementia is most frequently associated with aging and is, at present, under-diagnosed and under-represented all over the world. Discrepancies in the d…

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the multiple interrelationships between depression and various physical diseases. The WPA is pr…

This title provides a comprehensive overview of clinical, epidemiological, psychobiological, psychosocial and service organization aspects of disaster…

This book describes clearly how legislation can be used to advance the rights and entitlements of people with mental health problems. Straightforward …

Bipolar disorder is a serious mental disorder involving episodes of serious mania and depression and affects approximately one to three percent of the…

Depressive disorders have profound social and economic consequences, owing to the suffering and disability they cause. They often occur together with …

This series acknowledges the substantial gap that still exists in psychiatry between research evidence and clinical practice: clinicians are sometimes…

Substance abuse disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric disorders and are frequently comorbid with other psychiatric and health conditions …

Many mentally ill people are the victims of stigma, which leads to additional suffering and humiliation. Negative stereotypes and prejudicial attitude…

From Chapter 1 «Depression, like many other mental disorders, is characterised by the presence of a number of symptoms which are changeable over time.…