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Full Description
When used correctly, lithium unquestionably produces the most dramatic benefits of any medication used in psychiatry. The aim of this practical guide is to provide patients and their families with up-to-date information about the correct use of lithium - essential knowledge they will require. A special and very important chapter deals with lithium's unique antisuicidal effect. When treated with lithium properly, most patients experience nothing unpleasant, but lithium has a potential to induce adverse effects. A patient who takes lithium without adequate instruction can thus run into trouble, just as a physician who is not well trained in its use. Authored by a renowned expert on lithium treatment, this book grew out of enormous experience and out of conviction that a well-informed patient is a critical element in effective and safe lithium treatment. In non-technical language, this guide is a complete information source for manic-depressive patients, their families and the doctors and nurses concerned with their care. (A Karger "Publishing Highlights 1890-2015" title)
Contents
Acknowledgments; Foreword by a Psychiatrist; Foreword by a Lithium Patient; Preface to the 6th, Revised Edition; Introduction; Bipolar Disorder, Depressive Disorder, and Their Treatment; Bipolar and Depressive Disorder; Mania; Depression; The Nature of the Illness; Are Patients with Bipolar and Depressive Disorder in Fact 'Patients'? Suffering from Mood Disorder; Treatment of Bipolar and Depressive Disorder; Electric Convulsive Therapy; Neuroleptics; Antidepressants; Lithium Treatment of Mood Disorders; What is Lithium? The History of Lithium Treatment; The Therapeutic Effect in Mania; The Prophylactic Effect in Bipolar and Depressive Disorder; Lithium Treatment of Mania; Lithium Treatment without the Patient's Consent; Lithium Treatment of Depression; Prophylactic Lithium Treatment; Prophylactic Treatment of Bipolar Disorder; Prophylactic Treatment of Depressive Disorder; Compliance; Does Lithium Gradually Lose Its Effect? How Long Should Lithium Treatment Continue? Treatment Pauses; Quiet before the Storm; When Should Lithium Not Be Given? How Does Lithium Work? Other Prophylactic Medications; Lithium Protection against Suicide; Being in Lithium Treatment; Benefits from Long-Term Lithium Treatment; Problems; Cooperation between Patient and Therapeutic Team and between Patients Themselves; Practical Management of the Treatment; Preparations; Type of Pills and Number of Daily Doses; Laboratory Tests; Dose Adjustment in Prophylactic Lithium Treatment; Side Effects; Physical Side Effects; Risk and Risk Situations; Interaction; Cognitive and Emotional Side Effects; Lithium and Creative Work; Pregnancy, Delivery and Breastleeding; Malformations; The 'Lithium Babies' at Five; Breastfeeding during Lithium Treatment; Epilogue; Supplementary Reading; Support Alliances Dealing with Depression and Bipolar Disorder; Subject Index
