Anxiety and Depression by Stuart A Montgomery.
 
Anxiety and depression are now known to be inextricably linked, and their traditional separation into two distinct disorders is increasingly difficult and not always in the patient's best interest. Many depressed patients first present with anxiety and, without proper assessment, this can lead to inappropriate and potentially dangerous treatment. Large numbers of depressed patients also go unrecognised and consequently untreated. How, then, can busy practitioners best care for their patients?
 
Stuart Montgomery's book describes modern methods for the recognition and assessment of patients with depressive illness, highlighting the overlap with anxiety, and provides an up-to-date review of the various approaches to treatment and management including the most recently introduced drugs.
 
This is not an academic treatise but a readable text offering practical advice for treatment based on positive evidence of efficacy.
 
Special attention is given to the problems associated with drug dependence, drug overdose and the suicide risk in depressed patients, and the long-term management of depression. Separate chapters describe the recently recognised and much publicised disorders, brief recurrent depression and obsessive compulsive disorder.