Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Integrative Approach to Evaluation and Treatment - Hardcover

Mark A. Demitrack, M.D., has been involved in the research and clinical care of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome for over a decade. A recognized authority on the topic, he has lectured widely at national and international conferences, and has published extensively in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. His work on the neuroendocrine correlates of the disorder was one of the pioneering efforts to suggest a role for central nervous system dysfunction in the pathophysiology of this disorder. He is currently working as a Research Physician at Lilly Research Laboratories, and is an Adjunct Associate professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical Center.

Susan Abbey, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), is the Director of the Program in Medical Psychiatry at the Toronto Hospital and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She completed psychiatric residency training at the University of Toronto, a clinical fellowship in medical psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, and a doctoral research fellowship related to the psychiatric aspects of chronic fatigue syndrome at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto.

Foreword, Straus
I. Background
1. Historical Overview and Evolution of Contemporary Definitions of Chronic Fatigue States, Demitrack and Abbey
2. Idiopathic Chronic Fatigue: Depressive Symptoms and Functional Somatic Complaints, Manu, Lane, and Matthews
3. Psychiatric Diagnostic Overlap in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Abbey
4. The Psychobiology of Chronic Fatigue: The Central Nervous System as a Final Common Pathway, Demitrack
II. Assessment
5. Neuropsychological Assessment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Grafman
6. Psychiatric Assessment of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Abbey and Demitrack
7. Medical Assessment of Fatigue and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Komaroff and Fagioli
III. Treatment
8. Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Abbey
9. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Why?, Wessely
10. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: How?, Sharpe
11. Psychopharmacological Principles in the Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Demitrack
12. Medically Oriented Therapy for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Conditions, Engleberg