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Family Practice Advance Access originally published online on June 21, 2006
Family Practice 2006 23(5):605-606; doi:10.1093/fampra/cml029
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Beyond depression: a new approach to understanding and management. Christopher Dowrick. (240 pages, £21.50.) Oxford Medical Publications, Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0198526326.

Amanda Howe

University of East Anglia, School of Medical Health Policy and Practice Earlham Road, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK Email: amanda.howe@uea.ac.uk

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Doctors can feel that depression just doesn't fit the box they have been taught to put it in. They can feel cynical, frustrated or irritated by their inability to make sense of this multifaceted problem in conventional medical terms. At best, they may construe it as a complicated and difficult clinical challenge to which conventional diagnostic reasoning and treating don't do justice. If this rings any kind of bell, read on.

This book can help clinicians to think differently about the problems which depressed patients present, and offers some reflections to inform that thinking. It is hard to pigeonhole: not a textbook, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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