Depression and Cancer

“Well written and clearly indexed, it is extremely useful as a clinical guide but also could service as a sophisticated, but practical, overview of the psychiatric issues within oncology.  All health professionals who work with oncology patients in any capacity should have this on their desk. It is a gem that deserves many future editions.”  (The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1 February 2014)

"Depression and Cancer provides a comprehensive bio-psychosocial review and a thought-provoking discussion of the profound questions raised by the association of depression and cancer." (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, December 2012)


"This is a well-written topic-review book that achieves the remarkable feat of being broad enough to be useful to any clinician working at the interface of cancer and depression, yet delves into enough depth to be an invaluable resource to the academician interested in this topic ... For a short, in-depth view into where depression and cancer intermingle, this is an excellent, must-read book." (Doody's, 11 November 2011)

"Depression and Cancer would be of use to most radiation, medical, and surgical oncologists as well as general practitioners dealing with oncologic patients. The first half of the book may also be of use to nurses and other health care workers given the importance of all team members in caring for the depressed cancer patient." (Int. J. Radiation Oncology Biol. Phys, 2011)

"The present miniseries, Depression and Diabetes, Depression and Heart Disease and Depression and Cancer is a unique initiative to make physical diseases visible in psychiatry and to support the treatment ... To this reviewer the books have two strengths: their thematic broadness and the practical approach. The chapters about how to act clinically are excellent, pragmatic and consequently written .... The idea behind the series is excellent and the books are marvellous. After having read them no one will doubt that psychiatry is a medical speciality (that psychiatrists must be physicians first, psychiatrists next, that psychiatry must be done by psychiatrists and psychiatry must be lead by psychiatrists.)" (Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2011)