Handbook of Lithium Therapy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

   PDF

2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

      PDF

   2. The Place of Lithium in Biological Psychiatry

      • Ronald R. Fieve

      Pages 3-6

3. The Clinical Uses of Lithium

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

      PDF

   2. Lithium in the Acute Treatment of Mania

      • J. H. Kocsis

      Pages 9-16

   3. Lithium in the Acute Treatment of Depression

      • T. Alan Ramsey, J. Mendels

      Pages 17-25

   4. Lithium in the Prophylactic Treatment of Recurrent Affective Disorders

      • Poul Chr. Baastrup

      Pages 26-38

   5. Special Cases of Affective Disorder and their Treatment with Lithium

      • Shosuke Watanabe, Hiroshi Ishino

      Pages 39-46

   6. Inappropriate Use of Lithium in the Treatment of Reactive Depressive Cycles

      • D. M. Hawkins

      Pages 47-50

   7. Lithium Therapy in Combination with Other Forms of Treatment

      • Jonathan M. Himmelhoch, John F. Neil

      Pages 51-67

   8. The Psychiatric Uses of Lithium Outside Manic-Depressive Illness

      • Mogens Schou

      Pages 68-72

   9. The Range of Non-Psychiatric Uses of Lithium

      • Mogens Schou

      Pages 73-79

   10. The Relative Efficacies of Lithium and Alternative Modes of Treatment

       • G. K. Spring

       Pages 80-91

4. Factors Determining Therapeutic Outcome

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

      PDF

   2. Acceptance of Lithium Therapy by the Patient

      • A. Villeneuve

      Pages 95-102

   3. Rejection of Lithium Maintenance Therapy by the Patient

      • Theodore Van Putten, Kay R. Jamison

      Pages 103-108

   4. Recurrences of Manic-Depressive Episodes During Lithium Treatment

      • Athanasio Kukopulos, Daniela Reginaldi

      Pages 109-117

   5. Predicting Lithium Responders and Non-Responders: Physiological Indicators

      • James L. Marini

      Pages 118-125

   6. Predicting Lithium Responders and Non-Responders: Psychological Indicators

      • F. N. Johnson

      Pages 126-132

   7. Predicting Lithium Responders and Non-Responders: Illness Indicators

      • Robert F. Prien

      Pages 133-136

As a medical student in the 1930s, I remember well that a very clear line of distinction was drawn between physical illness and mental illness. Physical illness resulted from pathology which could be identified and studied in detail and the cause could often be deduced. Treatment thus was often specific and based upon a proper appreciation of underlying basic science. Mental illness, on the other hand, could not, it was believed, be based upon identifiable changes in basic science. It was literally 'all in the mind' and, occurring in the absence of causes that could be identified, analysed and remedied, had no treatment that could in any way be called specific. N ow it is all too easy, in Medicine, for a doctor to become so immersed in a specialty that he fails to notice how his colleagues in other specialties are faring and, through laziness, to miss advances even of fundamental importance in fields other than those in which he himself works. As a consultant surgeon, after W orId War II, although I realized the importance of keeping in touch with those medical specialties which appeared to have a common interface with my own surgical interests, such as general medi­ cine, gastro-enterology, hepatology and endocrinology, it did not occur to me that there was any pressing need to ask what was new in Psychological Medicine.

• blood
• cardiovascular
• cognition
• depression
• hand
• hepatology
• management
• medicine
• monitoring
• outcome
• pregnancy
• psychiatry
• therapy
• treatment
• women

• University of Lancaster, England

  F. Neil Johnson

Policies and ethics