"Psychiatric Disorders: New Frontiers in Affective Disorders" by Edited by Dieter Schoepf

This book brings together leading experts to create a volume of equal interest and usefulness to students, clinicians and researchers alike, which should serve as common knowledge. Specific themes of major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder are critically reviewed, addressing topics such as neurobiological mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis, treatment resistant depression, translational research and challenging stigma of serious mental illness.

Particular emphasis is put on novel developments in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and on attention to causal mechanisms of behaviour change in the Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy.

Contents
Preface
Section 1 Neurobiological Frontiers
1 Neurobiological Background of Affective Disorders
2 HPAAxis Modulation in the Treatment of Mood Disorders
3 The Pharmacological Frontiers in Treatment Resistant Major Depression
Section 2 Translational Search for Targets to Improve Treatment
4 Altered Associative Learning and Learned Helplessness in Major Depression
5 Emotional and Motivational Processes in Bipolar Disorder: A Neural Network Perspective
6 CBT in Affective Disorders - New Frontiers
Section 3 Novel Psychotherapeutic Developments
7 CBASP with Intensified Significant Other History Exercise for Chronic Major Depression with Antecedent Dysthymic Disorder in Outpatient Treatment: Rationale, Assessment and Effects on the Hypothesized Core Content of the Patient's in-Session Interpersonal Fear in Relation to Symptom Reduction
8 Adaptation of Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy in a 29 Year Old Female Patient with Chronic Major Depression and Antecedent Dysthymic Disorder Who Switched Under Combined SSRI/CBASP Outpatient Treatment into Bipolarity: A Case Report
9 Group Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (Group-CBASP): Adaptation to a Group Modality for the Treatment of Chronic Depression
Section 4 Co-Morbidity Frontiers
10 Co-Occurring Chronic Depression and Alcohol Dependence: A Novel Treatment Approach
11 Psychosocial Intervention for Co-Existing MDD and PTSD
12 Group Intervention for Chronic Depression and PTSD
13 Depression, Vascular Conditions and Chronicity
Section 5 Challenging the Stigma of Serious Mental Illness
14 A Journey Through Schizophrenia