(Clinical Practice.) Edited by Joseph F. Goldberg and Martin Harrow. 315 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1999. $49.95. ISBN 0-88048-768-2.
This book opens with a chapter, written by the editors, on "poor-outcomebipolar disorders." It is as though they are challenging readerswith the idea that this disorder, once thought to have a goodprognosis, does not have a favorable outcome. The rest of BipolarDisorders, written by some of the authorities on the courseof bipolar disorders, seems to echo this sentiment. But thisbook is by no means pessimistic, because it has several chapterson innovative psychopharmacotherapy, psychoeducation, and emergingpsychotherapies specific for bipolar disorder. Nonetheless,the thrust of the book documents the severe course that manypatients . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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