David W. Kissane & Mario Maj 
Depression and Cancer 

Recently, there has been a growing awareness of the multiple interrelationships between depression and cancer. Depression and Cancer is devoted to the interaction between these disorders. The book examines various aspects of this comorbidity and describes how the negative consequences of depression in cancer could be avoided or ameliorated, given that effective depression treatments for cancer patients are available. Renowned psychiatrists and oncologists summarize the latest evidence on the epidemiology, pathogenesis, screening and recognition, and cultural and public health implications of depression in persons with cancer, among other topics.

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List of Contributors.

Preface.

1 The Prevalence of Depression in People with Cancer (Mary
Jane Massie, Mari Lloyd-Williams, Greg Irving and Kimberley
Miller).

2 Psychological Adaptation, Demoralization and Depression in
People with Cancer (David M. Clarke).

3 Biology of Depression and Cytokines in Cancer (Dominique L.
Musselman, Andrew H. Miller, Erica B. Royster and Marcia D.
Mc Nutt).

4 Recognition of Depression and Methods of Depression Screening
in People with Cancer (Steven D. Passik and Amy E.
Lowery).

5 Impact of Depression on Treatment Adherence and Survival from
Cancer (M. Robin Di Matteo and Kelly B.
Haskard-Zolnierek).

6 Suicide and Desire for Hastened Death in People with Cancer
(William Breitbart, Hayley Pessin and Elissa Kolva).

7 Pharmacotherapy of Depression in People with Cancer (Luigi
Grassi, Maria Giulia Nanni, Yosuke Uchitomi and Michelle
Riba).

8 Psychotherapy for Depression in Cancer and Palliative Care
(David W. Kissane, Tomer Levin, Sarah Hales, Christopher Lo and
Gary Rodin).

9 Depression and Cancer: the Role of Culture and Social
Disparities (Christoffer Johansen, Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton and
Pernille Envold Bidstrup).

Acknowledgement.

Index.

O autorze

David W. Kissane is an academic consultation-liaison
psychiatrist, psycho-oncologist and psychotherapy researcher in
cancer and palliative care. He is the incumbent in the Jimmie C.
Holland Chair in Psycho-Oncology, attending Psychiatrist at The
Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, and Professor of
Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He
is a past President of the International Psycho-Oncology Society
(2000-03) and recipient of their Arthur Sutherland Award for
Lifetime Achievement in Psycho-oncology in 2008. He is the author
of over 150 publications, including two books, Family Focused
Grief Therapy (2002) and Handbook of Communication in Oncology and
Palliative Care (2009). At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, he has
established a state-of-the-art Communication Skills Training and
Research Laboratory and a Psychotherapy Research Laboratory.

Mario Maj is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of
Naples, Italy. President of the World Psychiatric Association.
Formerly President of the Italian Psychiatric Association;
President of the Italian Society of Biological Psychiatry (since
1990); Secretary-General of the Association of European
Psychiatrists (2001-2002); President of the Association of European
Psychiatrists (2002). He is the Italian psychiatrist with the
highest number of citations in indexed journals in the period
1981-2008.

Norman Sartorius, Association for the Improvement of
Mental Health Programmes, Geneva, Switzerland. Professor Sartorius
is President of the International Association for the Promotion of
Mental Health Programmes. Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists, of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of
Psychiatrists and of the American College of Psychiatry;
Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health. Member of
WPA Council.