Background
Badal, Daniel Walter was born on August 22, 1912 in Lowellville, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel S. and Angelina (Jessen) Badal.
(Depressive illness often becomes chronic or recurrent, an...)
Depressive illness often becomes chronic or recurrent, and patients may recover only partially. Despite all the new and effective drugs, at least 25 to 35 percent of patients with clear-cut mood disorders do not respond in a satisfactory way even though there can be some relief of symptoms. These chronically ill patients can be identified by careful examination and are characterized by what Badal calls a “predicament.” The predicament is caused by a combination of two factors: an intolerably painful and troublesome relationship with a significant other, and a personality deficit that prevents the patient from solving that relationship problem in an acceptable way. When patients do not respond to treatment and their cases become chronic, the doctor-patient relationship must become a long-term therapeutic alliance. The personality problems may require intensive psychodynamic treatment. Combined treatment―i.e., medication, psychosocial intervention, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation―is commonly required for these patients. The appropriate use of medication often makes it possible to conduct a successful psychotherapy. In identifying the problems causing the basic predicament of these chronic patients and successfully bringing them back into the mainstream, psychotherapists should have access to enough details and general principles of pharmacotherapy to evaluate the progress and the effects of the medication, and allow them to communicate intelligently with the person prescribing. Badal addresses five areas of treatment with these cases: The doctor-patient relationship, pharmacological treatment, psychosocial interventions, psychotherapeutic programs, and rehabilitation. He formulates an approach to recognition and treatment of all the various types of these hard-to-treat chronic and refractory mood disorders. A Jason Aronson Book
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765703300/?tag=2022091-20
(Since the first edition of this book was published, many ...)
Since the first edition of this book was published, many dramatic changes have taken place in the treatment of depressions and the related Mood Disorders. Daniel Badal discusses these changes in detail and provides psychotherapists with a general gasp of their own place and function in relation to the large field of mood or affective disorders, and to the various related depressive states. This book also presents these essential insights in a condensed but sufficiently comprehensive way in order to give those nonpsychiatrists who treat patients with mood disorders an intensive course in the clinical psychiatry as it is practiced today.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076570384X/?tag=2022091-20
Badal, Daniel Walter was born on August 22, 1912 in Lowellville, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel S. and Angelina (Jessen) Badal.
AB, Case Western Reserve University, 1934. Doctor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 1937.
Resident in medicine, neurology and psychiatry, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston City Hospital, 1937-1941; fellow in psychiatry and neurology, Harvard University, Boston, 1941-1945; assistant professor psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, 1945; member of faculty School Medicine, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, since 1946; associate clinical professor emeritus psychiatry, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, since 1983; practice medicine specializing in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Cleveland, since 1955. Member of faculty Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute, Cleveland, since 1975.
(Since the first edition of this book was published, many ...)
(Since the first edition of this book was published, many ...)
(Depressive illness often becomes chronic or recurrent, an...)
Fellow International Psychoanlytic Association (life), American Psychiatric Association. Member American Medical Association, Ohio Medical Association, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, Cleveland Psychiatric Society, Academy Medicine Cleveland, American Psychoanalytic Association, Philadelphia Association Psychoanalysis, Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society (president 1963).
Married Julia Lovina Cover, June 1939 (deceased May 1968). Children: Petrina Badal Gardner, Julia Badal Graf, Peter C. Married Eleanor Bosworth Spitler, September 5, 1969 (deceased February 1994).