Lithium and Manic Depression: A Guide

Lithium is the best established of all the medications to treat manic depression (bipolar disorder). Drs. Bohn and Jefferson give a thorough, up-to-date description of how lithium is used and answer the questions patients and their families often ask. They are practicing clinicians who are familiar with the latest research findings, as well as with how lithium has affected their patients and what those patients most wanted to know. This booklet, first published in 1982, has been revised ten times, most recently in 1996. Over 425,000 copies have been distributed.

James W. Jefferson, M.D., is a Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Dean Foundation for Health, Research and Education in Middleton, Wisconsin, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison. He is also cofounder and codirector of the Lithium Information Center and the Obsessive Compulsive Information Center, both now at the Dean Foundation. His major clinical and research interests are in mood and anxiety disorders, psychopharmacology, and the medical/psychiatry interface. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals and chapters in books, he has coauthored books such as Handbook of Medical Psychiatry, Depression and Its Treatment, Anxiety and Its Treatment, Primer of Lithium Therapy, Lithium Encyclopedia for Clinical Practice, and Neuropsychiatric Features of Medical Disorders, and the patient booklets in this series, Antipsychotic Medications and Schizophrenia: A Guide, Carbamazepine and Manic Depression: A Guide, Depression and Antidepressants: A Guide, Fearful Flyer's Guide, Lithium and Manic Depression: A Guide, Divalproex and Manic Depression: A Guide (originally Valproate and Manic Depression: A Guide), Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia: A Guide, Social Phobia: A Guide, and Trichotillomania: A Guide.

Dr. Jefferson received his M.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Following a medical internship at St. Luke's Hospital in New York, he completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin and a cardiology fellowship at the University of Chicago. After serving with the military as a research cardiologist, he completed a residency in psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin. He joined the faculty in 1974, was tenured in 1978, served as professor of psychiatry from 1981-1992 and as director of the Center for Affective Disorders from 1983-1992. He is board certified in both psychiatry and internal medicine.