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Science 28 May 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5419, p. 1474
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5419.1474
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MENTAL HEALTH:
Light on Darkened Minds

A review by Norman E. Rosenthal

Malignant Sadness The Anatomy of Depression
Lewis Wolpert
Faber and Faber, London, 1999. Paper, 208 pp. £9.99. ISBN 0-571-19172-X.

Wolpert provides a detached and clinical account of his own illness in this comprehensive overview written for a general audience (and accompanied by a BBC television series on depression).
The author is at the National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Building 10, Room 3S-231, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. E-mail: ner{at}box-n.nih.gov

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