Psychoanalytic Diagnosis Book

I read this book to learn more about bipolar as I have a friend with this diagnosis. This book was recommended to me by another friend and I was glad I could get my hands on it.
Its written in professional language and sometimes it was hard to understand some things, because I'm not a doctor and psychology is just something of an interest of mine.
But it answered all my questions. It is a very interesting reading, but be prepared to what you might find out, the author just puts the info out there as this book is meant for professionals.
I really liked the way the book is structured. It not only gives you the description of the outer signs of the diagnosis, but it also gives you the idea of inner life of the person with that diagnosis. Scary.
After I finished reading about bipolar, I couldn't help myself and read the rest of the book.
And then I read it again, this time with a highlighter and markers.
A great read. I will definitely be rereading it from time to time.
By the way, after reading this book I talked to a friend of mine, who is a practicing psychiatrist, to see if I understood the information right and to my surprise (I did mention its kinda hard to understand some things in the book) everything I read I understood spot on.
It didn't make me feel better though as bipolar is a scary diagnosis, but at least now I understand what my friend is going through on daily basis and can if not help, but ease some of his pain or at least make it easier for him to go through what he's going through.