[Therapy of affective disorders].

The article presents a brief review of therapies of the affective disorders. Two basic approaches are used: psychotherapeutic and biological, which comprises mainly pharmacotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy. The treatment may be divided into 3 stages as concerns the time course: acute treatment, continuation treatment, prophylactic treatment. Therapeutic strategies for depressive episode, recurrent depressive disorder, manic episode, bipolar affective disorder, dysthymia and cyclothymia are mentioned in the text.