New Hope For People With Bipolar Disorder Revised

Starred review from August 1, 2007
There are a number of self-help titles for people with bipolar disorder, but this one has several singular features. For starters, it's written by a full-treatment teama psychiatrist (Fawcett), a psychologist (Bernard Golden), and a patient (Nancy Rosenfeld)so readers are given a unique combination of expertise and practical tips for daily coping. Medications, forms of therapy, suicide prevention, childhood and adolescent bipolar illness, how to deal with the stigma of mental illness, and information for family members and friends count among the topics covered. This revised edition includes a new chapter titled "Questions and Answers Regarding Bipolar Disorder," updated resources, and new information on medications; the latter alone justifies the price of updating for those libraries that own the first edition (2000). This book, along with E. Fuller Torrey and Michael Knable's "Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers", should be in every public library, no matter how small.Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA

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