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Previous Volume 356:646-647 February 8, 2007 Number 6

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By Michael Alan Taylor and Max Fink. 544 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. $150. ISBN 978-0-521-84151-1.

Depression is hardly a neglected subject. Not only is it recognized by the World Health Organization as the leading cause of disability worldwide, but library shelves groan with books on the subject. What distinguishes this book is its emphasis on an extreme form of depression, for which the authors, Michael Alan Taylor and Max Fink, use the old-fashioned term "melancholia." They believe that patients with melancholia are not receiving optimal treatment because the field has shifted its attention to milder mood disorders. Their aim is to put melancholia back on the map.

They begin by reconsidering the classification of mood . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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