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I have already recommended this excellent book to several people. It is one of the best books I know on the topic of mood disorders written for a general audience. Whybrow, who directs the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, writes exceptionally well (e.g., “Mania is to depression as fire is to the ashes of the fire” p. xv), and he is a born teacher. He misses no opportunity to inform, and he always does so in a way that captures the reader's interest. The day after I received this book in the mail, an article in the Washington Post reported that the average amount of time psychiatric residents spend on dynamic psychotherapy has dropped from 50% to less than 3% of their training. Fortunately for Whybrow's patients and readers, he was trained in an earlier era, when psychiatrists like him who went on to specialize in biological approaches still had a solid foundation in psychodynamics and psychotherapy.
But what, you might ask, is a review of this volume doing in Psychoanalytic Books? Good question. Whybrow is not a psychoanalyst, and his book mentions psychoanalysis only infrequently. Nevertheless, I believe his book will interest many readers of this journal. You may want to recommend a good book on mood disorders to a student, a friend, a patient, or a patient's relative. Surveys have shown that a sizable percentage of patients in analysis