The Bipolar Spectrum: Diagnosis or Fad?

by Joel Paris

Book Overview

In the 1970s, author Joel Paris was one of the first doctors in his hospital to prescribe lithium to a psychiatric patient. In the wake of the drug's success, both in that case and countless others, why this book? As Dr. Paris' historical examination of bipolar diagnosis and critique of the spectrum demonstrates, medicine has often been prone to fads that are assumed correct until proven wrong by science. This book opens discussion about the overdiagnosis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415891817
• ISBN13: 9780415891813
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"