Dr. Aiken is the Editor in Chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report; director of the Mood Treatment Center in North Carolina, where he maintains a private practice combining medication and therapy along with evidence-based complementary and alternative treatments; and Assistant Professor NYU Langone Department of Psychiatry. He has worked as a research assistant at the NIMH and a sub-investigator on clinical trials, and conducts research on a shoestring budget out of his private practice.
""An important and remarkably readable book, simultaneously broad, deep, and concise, offers the most comprehensive guidance I have seen for navigating the challenge of treating this population. It reflects not just evidence-based treatment, but a humane, integrative stance that invites clinicians to think across the biopsychosocial spectrum about this most vexing clinical problem. There is no other resource quite like it."" -David Mintz, MD, Director of Psychiatric Education at the Austen Riggs Center and author of Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology ""Distills an astounding amount of information into 48 clearly-written chapters, each of which is loaded with terrific and very practical advice."" -David Osser, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, author of Psychopharmacology Algorithms ""A thoughtful, scholarly, and reader-friendly summary of depression. This book will be a source of pragmatic insight and wisdom for any clinician who wrestles with the challenge of depressed patients who respond suboptimally to traditional antidepressant medications."" -Joseph F. Goldberg, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, author of Practical Psychopharmacology ""A clear and concise survey of practical approaches to resistant depression, including both psychotherapy and medications, for busy clinicians."" -Conrad Swartz, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Southern Illinois University, and author of Psychotic Depression