Description
Book Synopsis Seasonal Affective Disorder and Beyond is an invaluable reference tool for clinicians, researchers, scientists, students, and consumers who want the latest information and opinion about the therapeutic uses of light compiled in one succinct, comprehensive volume.
Trade ReviewAs a reference text this book is well laid out and referenced with key topics indexed. A worthwhile volume for clinicians and researched involved in treatment of seasonal and circadian disorders. As for the Dad or light therapy skeptics. . . the authors can only hope that after a read even they shall see the light!
-- Oyedehi Ayonrinde, Affective Disorders Unit, The Maudsley Hospital, London, United Kingdom * International Review of Psychiatry *
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Beyond is for everyone who is—ideologically at least—from Missouri: everyone who wants to be shown how (and how laboriously) these scientific conclusions have been obtained. Each chapter contains detailed summations of the major research projects and papers, weaving them together so as to present both the tenable conclusions to date and the questions raised but left unanswered.
* Bulletin of Menninger Clinic *
The 17 contributors in this collection offer a broad survey of research and theory on light therapy. . . .The text is well researched and documented. . .this volume should be a valuable resource for researchers in the field or those interested in observing its development.
* Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health *
Table of ContentsPreface. The healing light: interface of physics and biology. Light therapy for seasonal affective disorder. On the specific action and clinical domain of light therapy. Psychobiological studies of light therapy in seasonal affective disorder. Dawn simulation and bright light therapy for subsyndromal seasonal affective disorder. Light treatment for nonseasonal major depression: are we ready? Light therapy of premenstrual depression. Seasonality of bulimia nervosa and treatment with light therapy. Light and melatonin treatment of circadian phase sleep disorders. Bright light treatment for jet lag and shiftwork. Bright light treatment of sleep maintenance insomnia and behavioral disturbance. SAD and beyond: a commentary. Index.
