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The Women's Concise Guide to Emotional Well-Being
The Women's Concise Guide to Emotional WellBeing Author:Karen J. Carlson, Stephanie A. Eisenstat, Terra Ziporyn From Library Journal — This general overview is intended to enable the laywoman to take control of an emotional disorder. But once a problem has been diagnosed, the reader will need more in-depth information than is provided here. The work offers a five-page definition and discussion of each disorder, the controversies surrounding it, likely suff... more »erers, symptoms, and evaluation. Topics include panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsiveness, PTSD, anorexia and bulimia, personality disorders, psychosomatics, body image, and violence. A limited number of charts break up the text. The authors wrote the Harvard Guide to Women's Health (LJ 4/15/96) and the physicians, among them coedited Primary Care of Women (Mosby-Year Book, 1995). Laywomen would do better to consult either work for a thorough explanation of their conditions. The present work's greatest value is its 20-page list of sources for additional information. Readers can choose which disorder to read up on and then return the book to the reference shelf.« less