A Mood Apart : The Thinker's Guide to Emotion and Its Disorders
Author: Peter C. Whybrow
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ISBN: 006097740X
Publisher: Perennial (01 March, 1998)
Sales Rank: 87,668
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Moving
If someone were to ask me, "What scientist, by nature of their perspective, could ever understand the depths of humanity?" - I would pluck this book from my shelf and hand it to them. Whybrow truly investigates the subjective and the objective aspects of 'mood disorders' (in the clinical sense) and, by way of dialogue, synthesizes the two approaches into a singular perspective. He explores the emotional continuum - from mania to melancholia - in such a clear and concise fashion that anyone (scientist or humanist) can acquire knowledge, as well as wisdom, through Whybrow's book, A Mood Apart.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The best book I've read on this subject by far.
Dr. Whybrow is amazing. He's a good writer (most doctors are not!) and clearly cares deeply about both his patients and his readers. He conveys an enormous amount of information about the workings of the brain, well and otherwise, in an engaging style. He also provides the only remotely plausible explanation of how ECT works that I've ever read. I have those sticky-tab note-things porcupining out from nearly every page, to be referred to again and again.
Rating: 5 out of 5
A Review Apart
I whole heartedly agree with all of the other reviews. This book is tremendously insightful. I would like to add that this is not a book solely about bi-polar and manic depression. It is also about unipolar depression. I found that to read about all these types of depression together to be very insightful about my own place amongst all the variations. And this was a very interesting point made by the book that all these types of variables do occur in people without the dehabilitating forms of these illnesses. The form of the illness is not out of the ordinary, so to speak. Excellent book. Layered with insights into biology, psychology, history, genetics, and evolutionary adaptation. Similar Products
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