Depression

Part of a series of expert reviews on health topics in fields where significant developments are occurring. As a reference source, it allows those working in other specialities and younger clinicians and scientists to update their knowledge in important and well-defined subject areas. The text includes: written and computer-based self-help treatments for depression; developments in understanding the psychosocial aspects of depression; information about depression, suicide and deliberate self-harm in adolescence; insights from neurobiology; and the link between depression and sexual dysfunction.