Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 948
Publication Date: 2001-05
Sales Rank: 229662
ISBN / ASIN: 030646490X
EAN: 9780306464904
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer
Average Rating: 4.5
Total Reviews: 3
Book Description:
The third edition of Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology provides in-depth coverage of theoretical, research, and clinical positions in psychopathology.
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition
Outlines a highly improved classification scheme based on the DSM IV;
Includes two new chapters on schizophrenia that reflect renewed interest in this topic;
Puts new emphasis on cultural and developmental issues;
Contains increased coverage of the overlap of medicine and abnormal behavior. £/LIST£ Furnishing both empirical and research data useful to graduate students and practicing clinicians in the mental health profession, particularly clinical psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric nursing, and social work, this handbook is an ideal reference source.
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 190
Publication Date: 2003-06-30
Sales Rank: 346832
ISBN / ASIN: 0306477505
EAN: 9780306477508
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer
Average Rating: 5
Total Reviews: 1
Book Description:
This book describes a concise and up-to-date treatment program for insomnia intended for a range of health care providers. In a user-friendly manner it provides empirically-derived and clinically useful treatment procedures, comprising a cost-effective program that can be applied to large numbers of *****s with insomnia. This program fits readily into managed care (U.S.) and local health co-operative systems (U.K.), particularly as it offers an alternative to pharmacotherapy.
Chapters cover an introduction to sleep and its disturbance, as well as clear-cut assessment and treatment approaches. Most of the chapters are formatted for consistency and provide regular features in addition to the descriptive text, including clinical vignettes, a checklist of learning outcomes for the clinician, and recommendations for further reading on a given topic. Where applicable, assessment materials are reproduced and interpretation criteria provided. Additional features include guidance notes for the therapist in conducting each session, worksheets for patients to complete, and implementation criteria to increase patient compliance. For maximum convenience to the clinician the book comes with a CD containing materials that can be reproduced and customized for use in the assessment and treatment process.
Study Guide to the American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, Second Edition
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American Psychiatric Publishing; 2001; pp196; ISBN: 088048697X
This unique study guide offers readers the invaluable opportunity to evaluate their understanding of the material contained in The American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, Second Edition, a comprehensive, clinically focused textbook that provides the critical knowledge clinicians need to deliver the highest quality of care to their patients.
This concise study guide helps clinicians assess their knowledge of the important basic science foundations, diagnostic issues, psychiatric disorders and treatments, and specific care settings in geriatric psychiatry. Its multiple-choice format, which includes answers and references at the end of each chapter of questions, corresponds to the chapters in the Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry and enables readers to check their knowledge base, review given topics as needed, and confirm their mastery of the material. Every answer includes a specific citation to the Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry.
The guide’s four sections cover the following topics, corresponding to those in the Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry:
Section I, The Basic Science of Geriatric Psychiatry, reviews the myths, history, science of aging; physiological and clinical considerations of the geriatric patient; perceptual changes with aging; neuroanatomy/neuropathology of aging; chemical messengers; genetics; psychology of normal aging; social and economic factors related to psychiatric disorders, and epidemiology of psychiatric disorders.
Section II, The Diagnostic Interview in Late Life, reviews the psychiatric interview and the use of the laboratory in the diagnostic workup of older *****s.
Section III, Psychiatric Disorders in Late Life, reviews schizophrenia; cognitive, mood, anxiety, bereavement/adjustment disorders, and somatoform and psycho***ual disorders; sleep disturbances; and alcohol and drug problems.
Section IV, Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders in Late Life, reviews pharmacological treatment; diet, nutrition, and exercise; psychotherapy; clinical psychiatry in the nursing home and the movement from hospital- to community-based care.
Especially significant today, when clinicians must meet ever more stringent continuing education, certification, and licensing requirements, this study guide provides valuable assistance to ensure that their understanding of the many important areas in geriatric psychiatry is satisfactory. Medical students and instructors alike will also find this guide to be a thought-provoking addition to seminars on geriatric psychiatry, geriatric psychology, or the elderly as a special population.
Publisher: Gaskell (Royal College of Psychiatrists)
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Sales Rank: 3986186
ISBN / ASIN: 1901242048
EAN: 9781901242041
Developmental Psychopathology, Three Volume Set, 2nd Edition
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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 2700
Publication Date: 2006-01-27
Sales Rank: 1267765
ISBN / ASIN: 0471237353
EAN: 9780471237358
Book Description:
Developmental Psychopathology, Second Edition, Three Volume Set contains in three volumes the most complete and current research on every aspect of developmental psychopathology. This seminal reference work features contributions from international expert researchers and clinicians who bring together an array of interdisciplinary work to ascertain how multiple levels of analysis may influence individual differences, the continuity or discontinuity of patterns and the pathways by which the same developmental outcomes may be achieved.
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 440
Publication Date: 2003-07-16
Sales Rank: 747384
ISBN / ASIN: 0471419826
EAN: 9780471419822
Book Description:
Presents cutting-edge information on a variety of dementia-causing illnesses.
Provides relevant material for professionals working with AIDS patients, substance abusers, stroke or other vascular patients, and other individuals suffering from degenerative illness.
Edited by leading experts in geriatric health and dementia.
Product Details
pages: 290 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521547539
Year: 2006
Format: PDF
Summary:
Mood and anxiety disorders in women represent an increasingly important area of research and treatment development. The authors take a broad biopsychosocial and developmental approach to the issues, beginning with anxiety disorders in adolescence and progressing through the life phases of women to menopause and old age. All the disorders are covered, from anxiety and borderline personality disorder to stress and late-life depression. Particular attention is paid to questions of vulnerability; epidemiological and clinical evidence showing gender differences in such disorders; aetiological explanations in terms of biological (including hormonal) as well as psychosocial parameters, and treatment implications.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2003-08-06
Sales Rank: 145216
ISBN / ASIN: 0071389199
EAN: 9780071389198
Handbook of Parenting, Second Edition: Volume 1: Children and Parenting
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Book Description
Completely revised and expanded from four to five volumes, this new edition of the Handbook of Parenting appears at a time that is momentous in the history of parenting. Parenting and the family are today in a greater state of flux, question, and redefinition than perhaps ever before. We are witnessing the emergence of striking permutations on the theme of parenting: blended families, lesbian and gay parents, and teen versus fifties first-time moms and dads. One cannot but be awed on the biological front by technology that now not only renders postmenopausal women capable of childbearing, but also presents us with the possibility of designing babies. Similarly on the sociological front, single parenthood is a modern day fact of life, ***** child dependency is on the rise, and parents are ever less certain of their own roles, even in the face of rising environmental and institutional demands that they take increasing responsibility for their offspring.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 584
Publication Date: 2006-03-01
Sales Rank: 105109
ISBN / ASIN: 0781793408
EAN: 9780781793407
Book Description:
Based on the Second Edition of Marks' Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach, Marks' Essentials of Medical Biochemistry has been streamlined to focus on only the most essential biochemical concepts important to medical students. The authors present facts and pathways to emphasize how the underlying biochemistry is related to the body's overall physiological functions. This text presents patients to the students as the biochemistry is being discussed, which strengthens the link between biochemistry and medicine and allows the student to learn about this interaction as the biochemistry is presented. Each chapter includes clinical and biochemical notes and comments, questions and answers to encourage further thinking, and suggested references for those who would like to pursue a particular topic in more depth
Publisher: Open University Press
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Sales Rank: 975311
ISBN / ASIN: 0335191819
EAN: 9780335191819
Book Description:
This book is a collaborative production, based on the experiences of the co-authors in presenting a course over many years in Qualitative Methods to MSc students. All the team are members of staff of the Department of Psychology and Speech Pathology at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and have a wealth of experience in teaching and using qualitative methods. This is not an edited book; the authors have drafted particular chapters, but the team has collectively discussed, reworked and rewritten the text to produce a coherent review and guide to the area. This research guide is designed to be an introductory text to qualitative methods, intended for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. As well as furnishing an understanding of the assumptions underlying such research methods, the book is intended to present a practical guide as to how to carry out qualitative investigations, and in addition to provide the basis for a critical evaluation of these methods.
Book Description:
A completely revised and updated edition of an established and respected text, this is a concise and accessible review of the thoughts and methods which relate to undertaking research, and evaluating research and clinical treatment.
Written with the scientist-practitioner in mind, this text presents research methods and clinical treatment with a strong emphasis placed on the evaluation of research, which is so important to evidence based practice.
Research Methods in Clinical Psychology covers the essential aspects of training courses for new clinical psychologists, but will also be invaluable for practising clinicians updating their qualifications. Features to aid teaching and learning include:
· Case studies
· Chapter summaries
· Annotated further reading
· Glossary of key terms
· Web based extra material for seminars, practise evaluation, etc.
PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PERSPECTIVES ON RESEARCH; DOING THE GROUNDWORK; FOUNDATIONS OF MEASUREMENT; FOUNDATIONS OF QUALITATIVE METHODS; SELF-REPORT METHODS; OBSERVATIONS; FOUNDATIONS OF DESIGN; SMALL-N DESIGNS; THE PARTICIPANTS: SAMPLING AND ETHICS; SERVICE EVALUATION RESEARCH; ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION; CONCLUSION: EVALUATING AND USING RESEARCH
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 188
Publication Date: 2005-10-10
Sales Rank: 853248
ISBN / ASIN: 3211288643
EAN: 9783211288641
Book Description:
Arnheim, Gestalt and Art is the first book-length discussion of the powerful thinking of the psychologist of art, Rudolf Arnheim. Written as a complete overview of Arnheim’s thinking, it covers fundamental issues of the importance of psychological discussion of the arts, the status of gestalt psychology, the various sense modalities and media, and developmental issues. By proceeding in a direction from general to specific and then proceeding through dynamic processes as they unfold in time (creativity, development, etc.), the book discovers an unappreciated unity to Arnheim’s thinking. Not content to simply summarize Arnheim’s theory, however, Arnheim, Art, and Gestalt goes on to enrich (and occasionally question) Arnheim’s findings with the contemporary results of gestalt-theoretical research from around the world, but especially in Italy and Germany. The result is a workable overview of the psychology of art with bridges built to contemporary research, making Arnheim’s approach living and sustainable.
Publisher: Pergamon
Number Of Pages: 17500
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Sales Rank: 1459603
ISBN / ASIN: 0080430767
EAN: 9780080430768
Book Description:
This Encyclopedia is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale. Not since the publication in 1968 of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by David L. Sills, has there been such an ambitious project to describe the state of the art in all the fields encompassed within the social and behavioral sciences.
Available in both print (26 volumes) and online editions, it comprises 4,000 articles, commissioned by 52 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 7800
Publication Date: 2003-01-09
Sales Rank: 1361513
ISBN / ASIN: 0471176699
EAN: 9780471176695
Book Description:
First of its kind, sure to set the standard for future psychology reference works.
Provides psychologists, practitioners, researchers, and students with complete and up-to-date information on the field of psychology.
Twelve volumes cover all of the fundamental areas of knowledge in the field.
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Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder: The Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology and Psychiatry
Synopsis
Philosophical ideas about the mind, brain, and behaviour can seem theoretical and unimportant when placed alongside the urgent questions of mental distress and disorder. However, there is a need to give direction to attempts to answer these questions. On the one hand, a substantial research effort is going into the investigation of brain processes and the development of drug treatments for psychiatric disorders, and on the other, a wide range of psychotherapies is becoming available to *****s and children with mental health problems. These two strands reflect traditional distinctions between mind and body, and causal as opposed to meaningful explanations of behaviour. In this book, which has been written for psychiatrists, psychologists, philosophers, and others in related fields, the authors propose a radical re-interpretation of these traditional distinctions. Throughout the discussions, philosophical theories are brought to bear on the particular questions of the explanation of behaviours, the nature of mental causation, and eventually the origins of major disorders, including depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and personality disorder. First published in 1996, this volume played an important role in bridging the gap between philosophy and psychiatry, and introducing those in psychiatry to philosophical ideas somewhat neglected in their field. Completely updated, the new edition of this acclaimed volume draws on the strengths of the first edition, and will be a central text in the burgeoning field of philosophy of psychiatry.
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2 edition
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 412
Publication Date: 2003-02-21
Sales Rank: 519262
ISBN / ASIN: 0470849630
EAN: 9780470849637
Book Description
Be Guided by the Evidence... Dementia is at present under-diagnosed and under-treated all over the world. Discrepancies in the diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions implemented in the various clinical contexts are significant and, consequently, the need for a review of the currently available research evidence and a discussion of different clinical practices is urgently needed. This new edition of the third volume of the WPA Series, Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry, provides: State-of-the-art systematic reviews of the subject Accompanying commentaries by an outstanding line up of contributors Coverage of developments in diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, economic evaluation and quality improvement An unbiased and reliable reference point This new edition will provide invaluable information for all psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses, managers and policy makers.
Be Guided by the Evidence...Phobias are extremely common in the general population and can involve a very significant social disability and burden for the family. Most cases remain undiagnosed, and many of those that are diagnosed are treated inappropriately. It is therefore essential to reduce the gap between scientific evidence and clinical experience to improve diagnosis and treatment of these mental disorders. This volume provides Coverage of different types of phobias including agoraphobia, social phobia and specific phobias, including diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology, as well as a discussion of the social and economic burdens caused by phobias An unbiased and reliable reference point. The unique series format of review chapters followed by commentaries. This seventh volume in the World Psychiatric Association Series Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry is of relevance to all psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses and policy makers.
ISBN: 0306473658
Author: Stephen J. Morewitz
Publisher: Springer
Edition: 1 edition (December 31, 2002)</li><li><b>Language:</b> English
Hardcover: 150 pages
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Summary:
Stalking and Violence: New Patterns of Obsession and Trauma provides new perspectives on the prevalence, causes, and effects of stalking in intimate and non-intimate relations. Drawing on the results of a large random survey of restraining orders, this book found that stalking is highly prevalent in a variety of relationships and is a pattern of behaviors that is routinely regulated by the demographic and social characteristics of the victims and offenders. This book demonstrates that it is possible to develop reliable stalker profiles to help better detect and respond to the threat of stalking. These findings differ from previous studies that considered stalking limited to severely disturbed persons. Covering a wide range of topics from offender profiling, the dangers of stalking, cyberstalking, traumatic health effects, and the responses of the police and courts to stalking, this book will be relevant to a wide range of professionals and students in the fields of mental health, criminal justice, law, social work, medicine, nursing, public health, security/safety, and internet technology
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies
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»Book Publisher: Wiley (15 October, 2004)
»ISBN: 0470862858
»Book author: Gerald Rosen
»Amazon Rating: 5.0
Book Description:
Is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) an illness that arises after horrific and life-threatening events? Or is it a label that medicalizes human suffering, and brings with it more problems than it solves?
Still a relatively new diagnosis, PTSD has changed our vocabulary and shaped our views on human coping and resilience. Yet almost every assumption upon which the diagnosis rests has come under question. In this volume, Gerald Rosen brings together leading international scholars in posttraumatic studies to consider the most contentious debates. Each chapter offers an analysis of the issues, reviews current research, and clarifies implications for the practicing clinician.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies is essential reading for all practitioners, researchers, and students who work in the field of trauma. Professionals in related health fields and the law will also find this book useful.
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14-05-2007, 12:05 AM
Psychopathology: Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2004-07-20
Sales Rank: 207121
ISBN / ASIN: 080584077X
EAN: 9780805840773
Book Description:
Psychopathology: Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding is specifically designed to meet the needs of graduate students enrolled in a one semester course on abnormal psychology or psychopathology in master's or doctoral programs in clinical and counseling psychology and related fields, such as social work.
The authors, all leading experts, focus throughout on what has been demonstrated by research, not on what has been claimed by theories that may be accepted or traditional but lack empirical support. The first section presents and analyzes the basic concepts we need to understand any disorder; the second examines the disorders most frequently encountered in clinical practice.
Sure to be labeled immoral by some organized-religion enthusiast, balderdash by some ultrarational pragmatist, Schumaker's book makes a case for the essential sameness of religion, hypnosis, and psychopathology. Cogently reasoned, laboriously constructed, its arguments are obviously not for everyone, but they will inspire and animate adherents and opponents alike. Are these three areas of human behavior merely different manifestations of the desire, conscious or unconscious, to bend reality and the perception of it to personal ends? Schumaker deals with reality, sanity, culture, dissociation and suggestion, and the roles and interactions of society and the individual, reducing each to its essence and examining and evaluating it individually and in concert with the others. Citing noted researchers and observers, he demonstrates how humans generally are inclined to construct "insane" realities that distance them from objective but possibly undesirable reality. Furthermore, Schumaker's views and findings on the roles of ritual and perception in our lives and in our views of reality are fascinating.
Author: S. Clare Stanford (Editor)
Product Details
221 pages, Landes Bioscience; 1st edition (October 15, 1999) $119.00
Format: 1.5MB PDF
Summary:
The SSRIs have had a major impact on the treatment of depression and one, Prozac, has even attained cult status. Yet, their predecessors are still used with impunity and we have no definitive explanation for their therapeutic effects. In reviewing the established and novel indications for treatment with these drugs, SSRIs: Past, Present and Future, incorporates a frank and detailed appraisal of their safety, efficacy and tolerability as well as exploring their underlying neurobiology.
This book is specifically designed to be accessible and instructive to both students and experts in the clinical and preclinical sciences. Whenever feasible, individual chapters integrate material from these two areas and they all start by outlining the background to each topic before discussing more specialized research. As a result, readers who are dedicated to one of branch of this field will be encouraged to increase their understanding of, and interest in, others.
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SYNOPSIS
This review guide for USMLE steps two and three focuses on the core material on subjects like psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety, personality disorders, substance abuse, eating disorders, cognitive disorders, special clinical settings, antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics, adverse drug reactions, psychological theories, and legal issues. USMLE-style questions are provided, along with explanations for the answers.
Description: This book is a board review of psychiatric topics in USMLE step II and III for medical students and residents preparing for the exams.
Purpose: The book's purpose is to prepare students for the psychiatry questions found in USLME parts II and III in a concise and rapid manner. The authors state that it may be helpful for physician assistant students as well. This is a popular style of book in American medical schools due to time constraints and the daunting amount of material covered in part II and III. It is difficult to say if the authors meet their objectives because I did not use the-book for USMLE II and III. While the topics covered are often found in the tests, practicing the questions is more important than studying the very terse topic reviews found in books like this.
Audience: The targeted readers are medical students and junior residents preparing for step II and III who are not psychiatry residents.
Features: This board review book briefly covers the most common psychiatric disorders with little review of DSM-IV criteria for diagnosis. It covers the key terminology and commonly asked "facts". Important detail is lacking, and the book is good only for the third year medical school clerkship level.
Assessment: This book is adequate review of psychiatry for the USMLE II and III and would fit best with medical students or residents in a non-psychiatric residency program preparing for the exams.
Number Of Pages: 3344
Publication Date: 2000-01-15
Sales Rank: 535704
ISBN / ASIN: 0683301284
EAN: 9780683301281
If you are in psychiatry, then you know that this is the basic textbook of psychiatry training. If you are a medical student (unless you are going into psychiatry), this book is to comprehensive as a reference, and I strongly recommend the 10th edition synopsis book, which itself is around 1500 pages. This book has everything in it, and great tables to boot. I don't find it overwehlming to read as well. Though it may explain a lot of history behind a diagnosis and diffent changes throughout the course of it, it does not come off as being an "overwordy" text, like many comprehensive textbooks can be. It does not leave me with the "what did I just read, i need to re-read that" sense. So this is a good investment for the psychiatrist, and an absolute investment for any resident. This book, when actually used, will allow you to pass the boards.
Book Description
This book provides both the evidence and the guidance to enable doctors to improve their assessment and management of the psychological and behavioural aspects of the most common problems presenting in general medical care.It summarises the recent research evidence and provides common sense guidance on how psychological and psychiatric aspects of illness can be addressed within the medical consultation.
Book Info
(BMJ Books) Univ. of Oxford. UK. Text is an evidence-based overview of the psychological aspects of medical practice. Includes the assessment of anxiety, depression, and functional somatic symptoms. Focuses on the day-to-day practice and problems rather than psychological theory. For physicians and healthcare professionals. Softcover.
Publisher: World Health Organization,
Pub Date: 2005.
Pages: 540 p.
ISBN: 924156296X
Summary
Mental Health Alas-2005 provides essential information on mental health for all 192 Member States of WHO. The information for each of these countries includes: General information, epidemiology, mental health policy, substance abuse policy, national mental health programme, national therapeutic drug policy/essential list of drugs, mental health legislation, mental health financing, mental health facilities, psychiatric beds and professionals, non-governmental organizations, information gathering system, programmes for special population, and other relevant information.
This information has been collected from the countries and has been supplemented by a search of relevant literature and reports of WHO and other international and national organizations. Mental Health Atlas-2005 is perhaps the most comprehensive reference source for global mental health information.
Mental Health Atlas-2005 is the revised version of the first set of publications from the Project ATLAS titled, Atlas: Mental Health Resources in the World, 2001 and Atlas: Country Profiles on Mental Health Resources in the World, 2001. All information has been revised and updated and additional information has been provided where none was available earlier. One significant addition is the inclusion of information on epidemiology of mental disorders for all low and middle income countries.
Mental Health Atlas-2005 is likely to be useful to public health planners, mental health professionals, mental health service researchers, non-governmental organizations, international organizations and students.
The Atlas database is accessible at the following WHO website: http://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/atlas/
Book Description
For all busy health care professionals who work with troubled children and adolescents with behavioural and emotional problems. Presented in a concise, practical and accessible guide to the assessment and treatment of the child in distress.The first section offers a bird's eye view of psychiatric disorder, including definitions, demography, aetiology and assessment. Section two describes the clinical picture of the more common disorders and overviews their treatment. The finer details of the most commonly used treatments are presented in section three.The style is jargon free and to the point, with an emphasis on management with tips on what to say to families.
Book Info
Univ. of London, UK. Text offers a practical guide for the assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioral problems. Aimed for clinicians who are not necessarily trained in child and adolescent mental health. Discusses the background, assessment, and treatments for children in distress. Addresses psychosis, sleep problems, and eating disorders. Softcover.
Product Details
* Paperback: 400 pages
* Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group (March 1, 2003)
* Language: English
* ISBN: 0727915932
* Format: PDF
* Size: 4.79 MB
* Price: $60.95
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14-05-2007, 08:37 AM
A Matter of Security: The Application of Attachment Theory to Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2003-09
Sales Rank: 1110225
ISBN / ASIN: 1843101777
EAN: 9781843101772
Book Description:
Matter of Security provides an account of the development of arousal and affect regulation, which offers a new way of thinking about mental disorders in offenders. This book also discusses the development of personality in terms of interpersonal functioning and relationships with others, which is essential to understanding both interpersonal violence and abnormal personality development.
Book Description
This book is a must for anyone who wishes to understand the pitfalls of policy-making where euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are concerned. The book will be most useful in academic forums, and it will appeal to legislatures and judges who take the decisions and make the judgments necessary to protect the fabric of society in the face of technological medicine. In addition, this book is of relevance to medical doctors, ethicists, lawyers working in the field of medical law and ethics, and sociologists who are interested in end-of-life issues and social justice.
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14-05-2007, 08:48 AM
The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life
* Hardcover: 560 pages
* Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 3, 2002)
* Language: English
* ISBN: 0195079981
* Format: PDF
* Size: 8.03 MB
* Price: $99.00
Book Description
This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2002-09-20
Sales Rank: 1999560
ISBN / ASIN: 0470845163
EAN: 9780470845165
Book Description:
People in groups act aggressively as a group, not as a collection of individuals. The Psychology of Group Aggression's comprehensive journey starts with group dynamics theory and research by reviewing its relationship to aggression.
Arnold P. Goldstein then provides a unique and valuable insight into the different types and levels of intensity of anti-social behavior, examines its causes and considers its costs. In separate chapters he considers low intensity aggression, including ostracism, hazing, teasing; mid-intensity, e.g. bullying, harassment; and high intensity aggression e.g. mobs and gangs. In a final section, he considers management and intervention techniques, both those widely employed and emerging methods.
An important work for both a pure and an applied audience, this will be a key reference for many, including clinical and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, criminal justice workers, social psychologists and academics and students in criminology, psychology and sociology.
Published in the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology
Series Editors:
Professor Clive Hollin, University of Leicester, UK
and Dr Mary McMurran, Cardiff University, UK
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14-05-2007, 09:08 AM
Psychiatry, 2002 Edition
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»Book Publisher: Current Clinical Strategies Publishing (21 December, 2000)
»ISBN: 1929622023
»Book author: Rhoda K Hahn, Christopher Reist, Lawrence J. Albers
»Amazon Rating: 5.0
Book Description:
This popular handbook is a concise, authoritative guide to psychiatry. It includes American Psychiatric Association DSM IV guidelines. It is the most up-to-date psychiatry reference available for the psychiatry clerkship and residency. Comprehensive and practical, it has been used for years by thousands of psychiatrists, residents, and students.
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14-05-2007, 09:13 AM
The Roots of Consciousness: The Classic Encyclopedia of Consciousness Studies Revised and Expanded
Publisher: Marlowe & Co
Number Of Pages: 478
Publication Date: 1997-07
Sales Rank: 387908
ISBN / ASIN: 1569247471
was written by the world's one and only doctor in parapsychology, Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Few people are as well-connected with pioneers in the field of conciousness as Mishlove, and his lifetime of experience with psychic research is reflected in what is certainly the most complete compendium of consciousness studies ever.
Have you ever wondered whether people's feelings towards one another could be captured on film, or whether animals can communicate with humans? Would you like to better understand metal-bending, psychokinesis, UFOs and out-of-body phenomenons? If you answered, "yes" to any of the above, this is the book for you.
THE ROOTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS is large (wide, thick and heavy), with lots of excellent black and white photographs and illustrations, which makes it an ideal conversation-starter when placed atop your coffee table. By flipping this book open randomly to any given page, one is immediately rewarded with fascinating insights into the details of some branch of parapsychology. Mishlove's interdisciplinary expertise lends this book tremendous depth and breadth of scope, as it includes history, mathematics, physics, psychology, and religion
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Disease Control Priorities Related to Mental, Neurological, Developmental and Substance Abuse Disorders
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»Book Publisher: World Health Organization (30 October, 2006)
»ISBN: 924156332X
»Book author: World Health Organization
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This publication brings together five chapters from Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition (2006), along with an introduction and a conclusion by WHO. The chapters cover mental disorders, neurological disorders, learning and developmental disabilities, and alcohol and illicit opiate abuse. The purpose of this special package is to provide information on cost-effectiveness of interventions for these specific groups of disorders. This information should contribute to reformulation of policies and programmes and reallocation of resources, eventually leading to reduction of morbidity and mortality.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2001-06-15
Sales Rank: 745667
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EAN: 9781585620265
Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design
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Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Number Of Pages: 315
Publication Date: 2003-01
Sales Rank: 227169
ISBN / ASIN: 1557989796
EAN: 9781557989796
Qualitative Research in Psychology brings together a diverse group of scholars who share valuable qualitative research techniques and rich case examples. Qualitative methodologies and the different paradigms which guide them can be seen as both an alternative and complementary approach to quantification and positivism in social, personality, developmental, health, clinical, counseling, community and school psychology. Qualitative methodology seen as an alternative approach seeks to answer questions that cannot be answered through quantification, random sampling, probability testing and other measures, which seek to control the environment of the participant. Viewed as a complementary approach to research, qualitative methodology can be utilized alongside quantitative methods, bringing a new depth and richness to data analysis. The wide variety of innovative techniques and theoretical perspectives offered in this volume will challenge readers to think about and expand on their understanding of qualitative research and its continually emerging applications.
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Handbook of Drug Abuse Prevention
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»Book Publisher: Springer (05 May, 2006)
»ISBN: 0387324593
»Book author: Zili Sloboda, William J. Bukoski
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This wide-ranging handbook brings together experts in the sociology of drug abuse prevention. Providing a comprehensive overview of the accumulated knowledge on prevention theory, intervention design, and development and prevention research methodology, this work also promotes prevention science as an evolving field in the practice and policy of drug abuse prevention.
Included are sections on Theoretical and Empirical Foundations, Social Contexts of Prevention, Prevention as Social Control, Special Populations, Research Design and a Look at the Future. A major reference work, it will be of interest to social scientists, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and academics in the field of drug abuse prevention.
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»Book Publisher: The MIT Press (29 May, 1998)
»ISBN: 0262024411
»Book author: José Luis Bermúdez
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In this book, José Luis Bermúdez addesses two fundamental problems in the philosophy and psychology of self-consciousness: (1) Can we provide a noncircular account of fully fledged self-conscious thought and language in terms of more fundamental capacities? (2) Can we explain how fully fledged self-conscious thought and language can arise in the normal course of human development? Bermúdez argues that a paradox (the paradox of self-consciousness) arises from the apparent strict interdependence between self-conscious thought and linguistic self-reference. The paradox renders circular all theories that define self-consciousness in terms of linguistic mastery of the first-person pronoun. It seems to follow from the paradox of self-consciousness that no such account or explanation can be given.
Drawing on recent work in empirical psychology and philosophy, the author argues that any explanation of fully fledged self-consciousness that answers these two questions requires attention to primitive forms of self-consciousness that are prelinguistic and preconceptual. Such primitive forms of self-consciousness are to be found in somatic proprioception, the structure of exteroceptive perception, and prelinguistic forms of social interaction. The author uses these primitive forms of self-consciousness to dissolve the paradox of self-consciousness and to show how the two questions can be given an affirmative answer.
Principles of Neural Science
by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz, Thomas M. Jessell
McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange; 4 edition
ISBN: 0838577016
1414 pages
Now in resplendent color, the new edition continues to define the latest in the scientific understanding of the brain, the nervous system, and human behavior. Each chapter is thoroughly revised and includes the impact of molecular biology in the mechanisms underlying developmental processes and in the pathogenesis of disease. Important features to this edition include a new chapter - Genes and Behavior; a complete updating of development of the nervous system; the genetic basis of neurological and psychiatric disease; cognitive neuroscience of perception, planning, action, motivation and memory; ion channel mechanisms; and much more
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»Book Publisher: Gale Group (September, 1996)
»ISBN: 0787603724
»Book author: Susan Gall, Bernard Beins, Alan J. Feldman
»Amazon Rating: 5.
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2003-08-29
Sales Rank: 1785146
ISBN / ASIN: 047085099X
EAN: 9780470850992
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This book draws together contributions from some of the leading investigators in the field of autism to consider specific problem areas in current research. Each contributor brings expertise from a different field, providing a balanced view of the whole spectrum of study of this disorder. It covers four main areas:
* Twin and family studies indicate that the heritability of the underlying liability to autism exceeds 90% and point to a multifactorial causation, involving a relatively small number of susceptibility genes. The book discusses this issue in detail, along with the problem of why some additional symptoms are associated with autism while others are not.
pages: 2600 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198528108
Average Customer Review: Based on 1 review(s).
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This reference work covers all areas of general psychiatry in depth, and includes sections on each of the subspecialties (for example child psychiatry and forensic psychiatry). It is designed to be used by those in higher training, for continuing education and reaccreditation, and as a specialists\' reference.
The textbook is based on three themes of contemporary psychiatry -- evidence-based approach, social context, and global perspective.
The New Oxford textbook of Psychaitry is truly international, comprehensive, and scientifically based reference work which every practising psychiatrist will want to have available.
The book opens with a subject that is central to the editors\' view of the practice of psychiatry: the patient\'s experience of psychiatric illness.
pages: 684 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521651174
Format: PDF
Year: 2005
Price: $150
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development is a definitive, accessible and up-to-date account of all aspects of child development. Written by an international team of leading experts, it adopts an interdisciplinary approach covering topics that range from neonatal development to education, encompassing pediatrics, neuroscience, theories and research methods, physical development, social development, cognitive development, psychopathology and parenting. The contributors also l
ook at cultural issues, *** differences and the history of child development. Brian Hopkins is co-author of Crying as a Sign, a Symptom, and a Signal (Cambridge, 2000).
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This compact handbook features dosage, side effect, and drug interaction information for all psychiatric drugs. It includes information that is useful to the psychiatrist, internist, and student
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»Book Publisher: Wiley (03 March, 2005)
»ISBN: 0471484830
»Book author: Arthur W. Blume
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Part of the new Treating Addictions series, Treating Drug Problems is full of practical information on assessing, diagnosing, and treating drug problems, and represents an invaluable tool for anyone who works with clients experiencing drug dependence or addiction. The popular series format includes assessment scales; tables, checklists, and diagrams; features such as “Dos and Don’ts” and “Important Things to Remember”; problem-solving scenarios; “Self-Improvement Techniques”; and suggested resources, including an annotated bibliography and lists of contacts such as self-help groups, residential and outpatient treatment programs, support groups, and websites.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Pages: 418
Publication Date: 2002-05-22
Sales Rank: 1657338
ISBN / ASIN: 0801868408
EAN: 9780801868405
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"Descriptions and Prescriptions is one of the best accounts of the intense debates on the values underlying the DSM, the need for accountability in psychiatric diagnosis, and some of the chief philosophical and political issues in psychiatry."
Book Description
The main message of this monograph is that the appearance of the mammalian brain with the ability to acquire drives ensured the development of social life, and eventually led to the evolution of the human society. This most sophisticated form of organized life on earth is still in the trial and error phase of its development. It seeks to outgrow the myth-directed era of its history and come to its final state, the ration-directed human society.
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SCIENCE & JUSTICE
"The book is easy to read and needs little previous knowledge of psychology."
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"...the text is very useful in that it presents the most compelling and urgent issues facing the criminal justice system, and the Forensic Psychologist who works within it today. Students (and others) who read this text will come away with a strong sense of what controversies grip the field and how difficult they are to resolve."
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"Introduction to Forensic Psychology is very highly recommended reading for anyone studying pscyhology, law, the criminal justice system, or related public policy issues."
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"The book is easy to read and needs little previous knowledge of psychology."
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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 1092
Publication Date: 2006-08-30
Sales Rank: 467436
ISBN / ASIN: 0470018542
EAN: 9780470018545 Book Description:
Essentials of Psychiatry provides a synopsis of the most critical material in the field of psychiatry. It covers the whole field, including assessment of the patient, definitions of each disorder, all treatment options and prognosis. The phenomenological classification of disorders is based on the APA’s DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This is followed by full treatment plans for each condition and a review of each therapy option in a dedicated therapeutics section.
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The Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology encompasses applications of psychological knowledge and procedures in all areas of psychology. This compendium is a major source of information for professional practitioners, researchers in psychology, and for anyone interested in applied psychology. The topics included are, but are not limited to, aging (geropsychology), assessment, clinical, cognitive, community, counseling, educational, environmental, family, industrial/organizational, health, school, sports, and transportation psychology. The entries drawn from the above-referenced areas provide a clear definition of topic, a brief review of theoretical basis relevant to the topic, and emphasize major areas of application.
Also available online via ScienceDirect featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Number Of Pages: 124
Publication Date: 2002-02-22
Sales Rank: 1910837
ISBN / ASIN: 1850709424
EAN: 9781850709428
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This handsomely illustrated color atlas and clinical text presents a thorough and exhaustive graphical review of the diagnosis, management and treatment of the affective or "mood" disorders. It is an invaluable graphical aid to assist in the diagnosis of unipolar, bipolar (manic), seasonal affective disorder, generalized affective disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorders and all the other classes of anxiety. As the first work to bring together all the relevant illustrative resources in depression in one volume, it is a landmark title in its field.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: 2002-06-08
Sales Rank: 707772
ISBN / ASIN: 0199243816
EAN: 9780199243815
It is experience of the world that puts us in a position to think about it. Without experience, we would not know what the world is like. Those who have experiences of which we know nothing may be able to think in ways of which we know nothing. Those who do not have our experience of the world will not be able to think of it as we do. These points show up even at the simplest levels.
John Campbell investigates how consciousness of the world explains our ability to think about the world; how our ability to think about objects we can see depends on our capacity for conscious visual attention to those things. He illuminates classical problems about thought, reference, and
experience by looking at the underlying psychological mechanisms on which conscious attention depends.
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Publisher: British Psychological Society
ISBN: 1405115920
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This book provides a practical guide to, and critical review of, community and individual professional interventions that could ease the lives of children with developmental disorders and mental health problems.The book is structured around the developmental stages and tasks in a child's life span, from conception to teenage years. It covers inherited disorders, intrauterine problems, neonatal and perinatal problems, early childhood attachment and physical disorders, disabilities at school, and problems associated with socialisation. It also discusses problems that affect children at all ages, such as learning disabilities and abuse, and various psychological and psychiatric disorders. A constant theme of the book is the role of parents, the family, and the community, in interventions.Written by a leading expert in child and adolescent clinical psychology and social work, the book bridges the gap between psychosocial interventions and medically-based treatments. Its design allows it to be used alongside Martin Herbert's Typical and Atypical Development: From Conception to Adolescence (BPS Blackwell, 2003).
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STUDENT-TO-STUDENT GUIDE Discover med students' secret weapon for the clerkship Impress on the wards and succeed in the clerkship Get answers to shelf-exam questions from students who passed Remember the essentials with high-yield topics, mnemonics, and pocket-sized reminders Apply the First Aid formula for clerkship success! INSIDER'S GUIDE TO PSYCHIATRY CLERKSHIP SUCCESS The only student-to-student, step-by-step guide to clerkship success Hundreds of recently tested high-yield topics from shelf exams and the USMLE Step 2 Exam, Wards, and Typical Scenario boxes for last-minute review Insider tips for outstanding performance on the wards and exams "Classifieds" section does the research for you, featuring high-yield websites and top extracurricular opportunities and scholarships Bonus: Pocket-sized tear-out cards with essential wards information! ***** [five stars] "Awesome! Read it 3x the week before exam and did very well." -;Beatrice Aguado, MD, University of Illinois, online review ***** [five stars] "Great review book for the boards ... Buy this book now. You won't regret it." -;California physician, online review **** [four stars] "Contains the DSM IV criteria for psych illnesses as well as brief additional clinical/educational pearls. This is a perfect book for those who like to know the essentials in an easy-to-read format." -;Online review
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Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN. Exam review written by psychiatry clerkship veterans. Includes a special section devoted to high-yield web sites, top extracurricular opportunities, and scholarships. Provides tear-out cards with essential ward information in pocket-ready format. Softcover. DNLM: Mental Disorders. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Number Of Pages: 98
Publication Date: 2002-01-30
Sales Rank: 1989134
ISBN / ASIN: 1850700745
EAN: 9781850700746
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This comprehensive color atlas covers the clinical features, etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of schizophrenia including modern developments in treatment and directions of new research. It describes schizophrenia's profound effects on perception, understanding, communication, and social behavior; its identifiable antecedents in early brain growth and development; and morphological data from structural brain imaging and post-mortem studies. The atlas provides examples of the latest research developments in neuropsychology, psychophysiology and functional imaging along with in vivo receptor imaging and other advances in psychopharmacology.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 205
Publication Date: 2001-01-15
Sales Rank: 854893
ISBN / ASIN: 019513625X
EAN: 9780195136258
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Sales Rank: 1228276
ISBN / ASIN: 0470868767
EAN: 9780470868768
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Traditionally, obsessive-compulsive disorder has been classified as an anxiety disorder, but there is increasing evidence that it has schizotypal features - in other words it is a belief disorder. This book describes the ways in which reasoning can be applied to OCD for effective treatment regimes. It moves comprehensively through theoretical, experimental, clinical and treatment aspects of reasoning research, and contains a detailed treatment manual of great value to practitioners, including assessment and treatment protocols and case studies
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Obesity has become a major health epidemic. The psychiatric aspects of obesity--contributing to the condition as well as resulting from it--are important for every psychiatrist to understand. This issue examines obesity from a psychiatric standpoint, discussing topics such as body image, behavioral assessment and treatment, obesity and psychiatric status, and self-help programs. The issue also provides numerous articles on the medical treatment of obesity, giving psychiatrists a solid base of knowledge with which to council their obese patients.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2001-05
Sales Rank: 1946446
ISBN / ASIN: 1585620270
EAN: 9781585620272
Book Description:
More than any other professional activity, integrated treatment—the simultaneous use of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy to treat patients with mental disorders—defines the field of psychiatry and distinguishes it from other mental health disciplines and medical specialties. This volume represents cutting-edge discussions—including frequent use of clinical vignettes by skilled and senior clinicians—of the clinical indications, challenges, and approaches of this most common type of psychiatric intervention.
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Evidence-Based Treatment of Stuttering: Empirical Bases and Clinical Applications
The book begins by addressing the notion of "evidence-based practice" and considers its implications for stuttering treatment. Part II presents the intersection of the nature of stuttering; the theories of stuttering; and the implications of nature, theory, and other knowledge for stuttering treatment decisions. Part III provides two of the many measurement issues facing stuttering treatment followed by Part IV, which is devoted to the quality of treatment research evidence, for specific treatments and in terms of some more general methodological and professional issues. The final part summarizes the clinical recommendations made throughout the book and discusses evidence-based, outcomes-focused clinical decisions for stuttering.
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* Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (April 8, 2004)
* Language: English
* ISBN: 0805846328
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Attention Deficit Disorder
by Barbara C. Fisher, Ross A Beckley
ISBN: 0849318998 | year 1999 | English
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Attention Deficit Disorder: Practical Coping Methods eliminates the confusion common among professionals attempting to treat this disorder and family members affected by it by answering questions about ADD in a logical and systematic manner. This book reflects the authors' belief that ADD represents a very complex syndrome that requires very specific diagnosis, including identification not only of specific attentional symptoms but also of the other accompanying issues. The aim is to approach treatment from a whole perspective, using medication as well as coping mechanisms to address the specific problems and understand the emotional issues that may prevent the child, adolescent, or ***** from working to his or her full potential. This book will appeal to both professionals and lay readers alike because of it establishes a clear understanding of this pevasive disorder.
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2005-02-24
Sales Rank: 1292053
ISBN / ASIN: 0471569704
EAN: 9780471569701
Book Description:
This timely handbook provides practical information and evidence-based findings on the most effective and current prevention interventions and programmes available regarding ***** emotional, mental health, and social problems. Each innovative chapter summarizes the problem, addressing trends, incidence, and risk factors; describes effective prevention interventions; and discusses practice and policy implications, as well as areas for future research. An exceptional resource for practitioners, researchers, and students alike, the Handbook of Preventive Interventions for *****s is an important addition to the mental health field.
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 294
Publication Date: 2002-04-15
Sales Rank: 1694102
ISBN / ASIN: 0471496812
EAN: 9780471496816
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
This book provides an overview of the strengths and limitations of the currently available systems for the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders, in particular the DSM-IV and the ICD-10, and of the prospects for future developments.
Among the covered issues are:
The impact of biological research
The diagnosis of mental disorders in primary care
The usefulness and limitations of the concept of comorbidity in psychiatry
The role of understanding and empathy in the diagnostic process
The ethical, legal and social aspects of psychiatric classification
Psychiatric Diagnosis & Classification provides a comprehensive picture of the current state of available diagnostic and classificatory systems in psychiatry and the improvements that are needed.
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2002-05-30
Sales Rank: 2715900
ISBN / ASIN: 0471496820
EAN: 9780471496823
Book Description:
Psychiatry in Society provides an overview of the recent socio-economic and cultural changes affecting mental health and mental health care.
These changes include:
The increasing complexity of the economic contexts within which mental health services are funded and delivered
The demand for cost-effectiveness evidence
The rationing of access to new pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies
The emergence of quality of life as an essential criterion in the assessment of health care interventions
The growing awareness of the influence of stigma on shaping the long-term course of severe mental disorders
The enhanced role of advocacy groups in providing information, advice and support to sufferers
This book will be of interest to psychiatrists and psychologists, mental health workers, managers and policy makers
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
Sales Rank: 848392
ISBN / ASIN: 0202307093
EAN: 9780202307091
Book Description:
The polemical aspects of Mirowsky and Ross's first edition caused a stir both in public health and in sociological circles. The new, second edition traverses the same terrain, though updating, and adds sections on "patterns" and new surveys research. In these pages the authors summarize, synthesize, and elaborate their observations and thoughts from two decades of research. Their views remain, for the most part, firm, and in an age that is still more therapeutic than not, will cause new controversy.
CONTENTS
I Introduction • 1 Introduction • II Researching the Causes of Distress • 2 Measuring Psychological Well-Being and Distress • 3 Real-World Causes of Real-World Misery • III Social Patterns of Distress • 4 Basic Patterns • 5 New Patterns • IV Explaining the Patterns • 6 Life Change: An Abandoned Explanation • 7 Alienation • 8 Authoritarianism and Inequity • V Conclusion • 9 Why Some People Are More Distressed Than Others • 10 Appendix • References • Index
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Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 987
Publication Date: 2006-05-01
Sales Rank: 287158
ISBN / ASIN: 0781760461
EAN: 9780781760461
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Psychosomatic Medicine is a book and DVD package providing a fresh approach to mastering the concepts and practice of modern consult-liaison psychiatry for residents and practitioners. The comprehensive 2-color book includes psychosomatic medicine symptoms, diagnostic dilemmas, and the interaction between numerous physical and psychiatric conditions. The bonus DVD features the fully searchable text, references, questions and answers, Power Point lectures, and trial versions of psychosomatic medicine software applications.
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This compilation is the most pleasurable reading I found about Freud yet. Presuming it is accurate it's A to Z topics are easy and interesting adding information about the man, theory and events related. Maybe you are a specialist but I am certain that you find something you don't know and would like to know.
Publisher: University of California Press
Number Of Pages: 281
Publication Date: 1993-03-26
Sales Rank: 900283
ISBN / ASIN: 0520080297
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Wars against Freud have been waged along virtually every front during the past decade. Now Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable critics, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, and the philosopher Adolf Grünbaum.
Frank Sulloway contends that Freud took most of his ideas from Darwin and other contemporary thinkers--that he was something of a closet biologist. Jeffrey Masson charges that Freud caved in to peer pressure when he abandoned his early seduction theory (which Masson believes was correct) in favor of the theory of infantile ***uality. Adolf Grünbaum impugns Freud's claim to have grounded his ideas--especially the idea of the unconscious--on solid empirical foundations.
Under Robinson's rigorous cross-examination, the evidence of these three accusers proves ambiguous and their arguments biased by underlying assumptions and ideological commitments. Robinson concludes that the anti-Freudian writings of Sulloway, Masson, and Grünbaum reveal more about their authors' prejudices--and about the Zeitgeist of the past decade--than they do about Freud.
Beautifully crafted and full of surprises, Robinson's work is a compelling defense of one of history's most original and powerful minds. Freud and His Critics will earn an enduring place in the raging Freudian debate.
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Dementia is an illness that raises important questions about our own attitudes to illness and aging. It also raises very important issues beyond the bounds of dementia to do with how we think of ourselves as people - fundamental questions about personal identity. Is the person with dementia the same person he or she was before? Is the individual with dementia a person at all? In a striking way, dementia seems to threaten the very existence of the self. This book brings together philosophers and practitioners to explore the conceptual issues that arise in connection with this increasingly common illness. Drawing on a variety of philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, Hume, Wittgenstein, the authors explore the nature of personal identity in dementia. They also show how the lives and selfhood of people with dementia can be enhanced by attention to their psychosocial and spiritual environment. Throughout, the book conveys a strong ethical message, arguing in favour of treating people with dementia with all the dignity they deserve as human beings. The book covers a range of topics, stretching from talk of basic biology to talk of a spiritual understanding of people with dementia. Accessibly written by leading figures in psychiatry and philosophy, the book presents a unique and long overdue examination of an illness that features in so many of our lives.
About the Author
Dr Julian C. Hughes is currently the Chair of the Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Dr Stephen J. Louw is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of South Africa, of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is currently Vice Chair of the UK Network for Clinical Ethics Committees. He was formerly Professor of Geriatric Medicine in the University of Cape Town. Professor Steven R. Sabat is Associate Editor of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington D.C. chapter of the Alzheimer's Disease Association and has been a co-leader of a support group for people with Alzheimer's disease. He is currently Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University.
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"This reference gives fingertip access to the entire range of current knowledge. Chapters have been written by master clinicians and include easy-to-read checklists and valuable Internet sites, as well as practical advice."--ADOLESCENCE
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A thorough update of the highly successful first edition, this volume includes 58 entirely new chapters and a companion CD featuring hot links, graphics, PowerPoint presentations, primary sources, and much more.
Here is the revised and expanded edition of the indispensable companion for every mental health practitioner. Improved over the first edition by input and feedback from clinicians and program directors, the Psychologists' Desk Reference 2e presents an even larger variety of information required in daily practice in one easy-to-use resource. Covering the entire spectrum of practice issues—from diagnostic codes, practice guidelines, treatment principles, and report checklists to insight and advice from today's most respected clinicians—this peerless reference gives fingertip access to the entire range of current knowledge.
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 648
Publication Date: 2006-10-31
Sales Rank: 309284
ISBN / ASIN: 0387329307
EAN: 9780387329307
Binding: Hardcover
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Changes within the interdisciplinary field of intellectual and developmental disabilities are evolving at a rapid pace. Clinicians, academics, administrators, and a variety of mental health providers alike need easy-to-access, reliable information that enables them to stay abreast of the numerous advances in research, assessment, treatment, and service delivery within a real-world sociopolitical framework. To that end, the Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is an essential resource for any professional who works with this vulnerable population.
This volume examines in detail the numerous advances in the field, summarizing major domains and emerging subspecialties into one eminently useful reference. Its contributors comprise a panel of the leading scientist-clinicians, who offer much-needed insight and guidance into ongoing improvements in theory and practice as well as intervention and prevention. For example, the handbook:
- Opens with chapters that offer a comprehensive review of current definitions, classifications, etiology, and findings on the most prevalent conditions, including cerebral palsy, pediatric brain injury, genetic syndromes, and autism spectrum disorder
- Provides a survey of psychological and educational service delivery systems available to people with intellectual disabilities – for example, several chapters focus on explaining how agencies work, the politics of service delivery, residential versus day treatment, and program evaluation
- Offers a wide range of assessment and diagnostic tools and tactics, including cognitive and adaptive behavior assessments, assessing for psychopathology, developmental screening, family assessment, and forensic applications
- Reviews the latest evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies, from social skills training to self-harm reduction to pharmacotherapy
- Concludes with insightful chapters on the ethical issues social acceptance and advocacy
The Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities makes clear the far-reaching impact these disorders have on individuals, their families, and society in general. For clinicians, researchers, and advanced-level graduate students, this volume is a must-have resource and reference.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 328
Publication Date: 2003-02-05
Sales Rank: 1069341
ISBN / ASIN: 0195133595
EAN: 9780195133592
Binding: Hardcover
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In this volume, Zautra illustrates how experience with difficult or stressful emotional situations can, contrary to popular belief, be beneficial; for example, our ability to adapt to stress can be improved by experiencing difficult moments of emotional intensity. Although people often feel the need to cope with problems before beginning to pursue happiness, the ability to move forward does not depend solely on correcting problems. The quality of our lives depends upon how well we integrate both the negative and the positive. Zautra identifies a unique and important role for stressful life events in shaping awareness of our emotional experiences. He offers an insightful view of how stress and emotions can influence health and illness, demonstrates the wide applicability of this perspective across domains of love and marriage, work, aging, and community, and provides new insights into clinical problems through a review of research on chronic pain, depression, child abuse, and addiction.
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 497
Publication Date: 2006-08-16
Sales Rank: 1017315
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EAN: 9780387325606
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Some of the molecules critical for building neuronal contacts have been shown to be affected in psychiatric disorders such as autism and mental retardation. Also, a reduction in synapse number in specific brain regions has been found in patients with brain disorders. Thus, imbalance in synaptic contact formation may result in the formation of abnormal neuronal circuits and the aberrant behavior manifested in these brain diseases. Recent findings also suggest that fine tuning of neuronal circuits rather than a major loss of neurons may be the cause of some of these brain disorders. In certain cases, loss of neurons could be a secondary event reflecting problems in improper neuronal communication.
ISBN: 0471496561
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Edition: 1st edition (May 28, 2002)
Hardcover: 346 pages
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Psychiatry as a Neuroscience provides an overview of recent solid advances in biological psychiatry which are of clinical relevance.
These include
psychoneuroendocrinological and psychoimmunological findings in major depression genetic and neuroimaging data in schizophrenia molecular genetic findings in Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging data in obsessive-compulsive disorder. This book will be of interest to psychiatrists and psychologists, neuroscientists, managers and policy makers
Exploring the continuum from normal personality traits to the diagnosis and treatment of severe cases of personality disorders, Personality Disorders in Modern Life, Second Edition is unique in its coverage of both important historical figures and contemporary theorists in the field. Its content spans all the major disorders-Antisocial, Avoidant, Depressive, Compulsive, Histrionic, Narcissistic, Paranoid, Schizoid, and Borderline-as well as their many subtypes. Attention to detail and in-depth discussion of the subtleties involved in these debilitating personality disorders make this book an ideal companion to the DSM-IV(TM).
Fully updated with the latest research and theory, this important text features:
* Discussion of the distinctive clinical features and developmental roots of personality disorders
* Balanced coverage of the major theoretical perspectives-biological, psychodynamic, interpersonal, cognitive, and evolutionary
* Individual chapters on all DSM-IV(TM) personality disorders and their several subtypes and mixtures
* Case studies throughout the text that bring to life the many faces of these disorders
Including a new assessment section that singles out behavioral indicators considered to have positive predictive power for the disorders, this Second Edition also includes a special focus on developmental, gender, and cultural issues specific to each disorder. A comprehensive reference suitable for today's practitioners, Personality Disorders in Modern Life, Second Edition features a clear style that also makes it a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The most thorough book of its kind, this Second Edition is a powerful, practical resource for all trainees and professionals in key mental health fields, such as psychology, social work, and nursing.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: 2006-06-29
Sales Rank: 545373
ISBN / ASIN: 0838584349
EAN: 9780838584347
Book Description:
This edition of this popular text continues as a comprehensive and balanced introduction to general psychiatry for students and practitioners. Updated features include the latest diagnostic algorithms, new nomenclature from DSM-IV, updated coverage of neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Includes extensive clinical vignettes and case summaries.
Workplace health is now recognised as having major legal, financial and efficiency implications for organizations. Psychologists are increasingly called on as consultants or in house facilitators to help design work processes, assess and counsel individuals and advise on change management.
The second edition of this handbook offers a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date survey of the field with a focus on the applied aspects of work and health psychology.
An unrivalled source of knowledge and references in the field, for students and academics, this edition also reflects the need to relate research to effective and realistic interventions in the workplace.
Editors are outstanding leaders in their fields
Focuses on linking research to practice
Over 50ew chapters. New topics include Coping, The Psychological Contract and Health, Assessment and Measurement of Stress and Well-Being, the Effects of Change, and chapters of Conflict and Communication
Attachment Issues in Psychopathology and Intervention
ISBN: 0805836934
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Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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Attachment Issues in Psychopathology and Intervention, by Leslie Atkinson (Editor) and Susan Goldberg (Editor)
Addresses the psychopathology of attachment disorder, including the application of attachment, attachment and psychopathology, and the relationship between disorders of attachment and failure to thrive. Attachment patterns between disordered children and their parents, and the role of attachment in controlling strategies are explained. The author also discusses various intervention techniques. Intended for the professional.
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 212
Publication Date: 2005-09-23
Sales Rank: 23829
ISBN / ASIN: 0470017732
EAN: 9780470017739
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Enjoyable mental exercises to help boost performance on IQ tests
This engaging book offers readers the ultimate in calisthenics for the brain. Using the same fun, informative, and accessible style that have made his previous books so popular, Philip Carter helps people identify mental strengths and weaknesses, and provides methods for improving memory, boosting creativity, and tuning in to emotional intelligence. Featuring never-before-published tests designed specifically for this book, plus answers for all questions, this latest treasure trove from a MENSA puzzle editor outlines a fun, challenging program for significantly enhancing performance in all areas of intelligence.
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Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 1988
Publication Date: 2002-06
Sales Rank: 2209918
ISBN / ASIN: 0123430100
EAN: 9780123430106
Book Description:
Psychotherapy is the dialogue between patient and therapist in the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral, crisis, and mental disorders. Psychoanalysis as formulated by Sigmund Freud is the first modern form of psychotherapy and this approach has given rise to several score of psychodynamic therapies.
In more recent times behavioral, cognitive, existential, humanistic, and short-term therapies have been put into practice, each with a particular focus and each giving rise to variations in structure and content of treatment as well as therapeutic outcomes. These therapy approaches relate the patient/therapist dialogue to different aspects of the therapeutic process. For instance, behavior therapies focus on the patient's conduct and cognitive therapies treat the client's thought processes.
The Encyclopedia covers the major psychotherapies currently in practice as well as the classical approaches that laid the foundation for the various contemporary treatment approaches. In addition, the Encyclopedia identifies the scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of the therapies and review the theoretical basis of each therapy.
Summary:
Clinical Hypnosis has proved successful in a variety of clinical situations. This handbook, with its practical approach, covers both the scientific and clinical aspects of hypnosis providing information on a range of available psychological and physical treatments.
* Explains how to learn and apply hypnosis in clinical situations
* World renowned editors
* Comprehensive coverage of relevant issues
This title will be invaluable to practising psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, medical hypnotists and mental health care workers.
by Philip Barker
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Whurr Publishers; 1 edition (July 15, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1861563922
ISBN-13: 978-1861563927
Book Description
This text explores spirituality and its relationship to mental health. It emphasizes the need to look inward and listen to the messages which are channelled through our beings, rather than dismiss these experiences as some form of ""disorder"". Part One considers spirituality as a reflection of the process of change. A brief overview of the contemporary history of spiritual inquiry in the field of mental health is provided. Part Two considers spirituality as a reflection of the process of meaning making. Part Three considers spirituality in terms of different forms of journey, including a consideration of the traditional concept of pilgrimage. Part Four considers the potential for healing that lies within even the most terrifying forms of madness. The book then concludes with a suggestion of the power of ""waiting"" and the rewards obtained by the careful, compassionate practice of life.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
Number Of Pages: 189
Publication Date: 2001-05
Sales Rank: 1981800
ISBN / ASIN: 1585620254
EAN: 9781585620258
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Uncommon therapy;: The psychiatric techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
Number Of Pages: 313
Publication Date: 1981-04-02
Sales Rank: 2147473
ISBN / ASIN: 0393011003
EAN: 9780393011005
A great reference to techniques of Milton Erickson by someone who spent a great deal of time working with him over the years.
Jay Haley is successful in showing just how amazing this man truly was and the impact he has on modern hypnosis and psychiatric techniques.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
Number Of Pages: 298
Publication Date: 2001-01
Sales Rank: 810085
ISBN / ASIN: 0880489553
EAN: 9780880489553
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Cultural diversity has always been a fact of life, nowhere more so than in the unique melting pot of U.S. society. Respecting and understanding that diversity is an important—and challenging—goals. Culture and Psychotherapy: A Guide to Clinical Practice brings us closer to that goal by offering a fresh perspective on how to bring an understanding of cultural diversity to the practice of psychotherapy to improve treatment outcomes.
This remarkable work presents the nuts and bolts of incorporating culture into therapy, in a way that is immediately useful and practical. Illustrated by numerous case studies that demonstrate issues, techniques, and recommendations, the topics in this wide-ranging volume focus not on specific race or ethnicity but instead on culture.
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 330
Publication Date: 2005-01-14
Sales Rank: 1239603
ISBN / ASIN: 0470021322
EAN: 9780470021323
Book Description:
Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can be applied to the treatment of a wide range of problems in many different settings. In this unique handbook, Frank Bond and Windy Dryden, have brought together a prominent cast of authors, to discuss issues concerning the definition, assessment and, in particular, the practice of brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).
Contents include:
* The difference between brief and regular CBT and evidence for its effectiveness.
* How to use brief CBT in your own area of practice.
* Applying brief CBT to emotional disorders, anxiety, workplace stress and more.
This handbook is accessible to a wide range of readers, including academics, practitioners, psychotherapists, counsellors, and students training in CBT.
Psychotherapy and counseling in the treatment of drug abuse
Publisher: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O
Number Of Pages: 135
Publication Date: 1990
Sales Rank:
ISBN / ASIN: 0160287057
EAN: 9780160287053
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: Collins
Number Of Pages: 736
Publication Date: 1999-04-06
Sales Rank: 24100
ISBN / ASIN: 0380731762
EAN: 9780380731763
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other 'black holes' of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist David D. Burns, M.D. outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life.
Now, in this updated edition, Dr Burns adds an all-new Consumer's Guide To Antidepressant Drugs, as well as a new introduction to help answer your questions about the many options available for treating depression.
Recognise what causes your mood swings.
Nip negative feelings in the bud.
Deal with guilt.
Handle hostility and criticism.
Overcome addiction to love and approval.
Build self-esteem.
Feel good everyday.
Simple Treatments for Complex Problems: A Flexible Cognitive Behavior Analysis System Approach to Psychotherapy
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Publisher: LEA, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2004-03-08
Sales Rank: 613378
ISBN / ASIN: 0805846433
EAN: 9780805846430
Binding: Hardcover Book Description:
This book describes the way in which a simple, flexible, and easily trainable cognitive-behavioral approach shown to be efficacious in the treatment of depression can be extended in the treatment of patients with a wide variety of psychological disorders
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2004-07-06
Sales Rank: 2163
ISBN / ASIN: 0399529950
EAN: 9780399529955
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
In recent years, mainstream Americans have begun to come around to meditation in a big way-and scientific studies are suggesting that the physical and mental benefits are solid and real. But to many, it remains something mystical and inaccessible...and spiritually-oriented tomes on the market don't do much to make it easier.
As interest in meditation continues to grow, this book offers a simple, no-nonsense program to help beginners experience reduced stress and increased focus in only eight minutes a day. Designed by meditation expert and bestselling author Victor Davich, this program teaches the basic principles of meditation while clearing up the misconceptions and myths that too often get in the way.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2006-03-05
Sales Rank: 303832
ISBN / ASIN: 0262162377
EAN: 9780262162371
Binding: HardcoverBook Description:
Our intuition tells us that we, our conscious selves, cause our own voluntary acts. Yet scientists have long questioned this; Thomas Huxley, for example, in 1874 compared mental events to a steam whistle that contributes nothing to the work of a locomotive. New experimental evidence (most notable, work by Benjamin Libet and Daniel Wegner) has brought the causal status of human behavior back to the forefront of intellectual discussion. This multidisciplinary collection advances the debate, approaching the question from a variety of perspectives.
The contributors begin by examining recent research in neuroscience that suggests that consciousness does not cause behavior, offering the outline of an empirically based model that shows how the brain causes behavior and where consciousness might fit in. Other contributors address the philosophical presuppositions that may have informed the empirical studies, raising questions about what can be legitimately concluded about the existence of free will from Libet's and Wegner's experimental results. Others examine the effect recent psychological and neuroscientific research could have on legal, social, and moral judgments of responsibility and blame--in situations including a Clockwork Orange-like scenario of behavior correction.
Contributors:
William P. Banks, Timothy Bayne, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Suparna Choudhury, Walter J. Freeman, Shaun Gallagher, Susan Hurley, Marc Jeannerod, Leonard V. Kaplan, Hakwan Lau, Sabine Maasen, Bertram F. Malle, Alfred R. Mele, Elisabeth Pacherie, Richard Passingham, Susan Pockett, Wolfgang Prinz, Peter W. Ross
Publication Date: 2004-12
Sales Rank: 1236935
ISBN / ASIN: 1587651998
EAN: 9781587651991
Binding: Library Binding
The first edition of Psychology Basics (1998) has been a popular, accessible, and affordable source of information about important theories and issues in this dynamic field. This revised edition is drawn from the 4-volume Magill's Encyclopedia of Social Science: Psychology (2003), which was named a 2004 Outstanding Reference Source by RUSA. Psychology Basics, Revised features approximately 125 essays, one-third of which are new. The remaining two-thirds have the same or similar titles but were either newly commissioned for the revision of the larger encyclopedia or feature updated text - bringing them in line with the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR (2000). "Sources for Further Study" sections offer the latest editions and scholarship. Additions to the Revised Edition include new top matter, tailored subheadings guiding readers through the text, photographs, helpful lists of diagnostic criteria from the DSM-IV-TR, and a Biographical List of Psychologists, with brief profiles of major figures in the field, both past and present.
Psychology Basics, Revised Edition supersedes the previous Psychology Basics and should prove to be even more valuable. Arranged in an A-Z format, Psychology Basics, Revised Edition highlights theories and concepts in the following areas: aging; childhood and adolescence; cognition; conditioning; consciousness; depression; development; diagnosis; emotions; experimentation; intelligence; language; learning; memory; methodology; motivation; origin/definition of psychology; personality; psychobiology; psychopathology; psychotherapy; sensation and perception; ***uality; social psychology; stress; thought; treatments; Entries range from 4-8 pages and begin with standard information: "Type of psychology"; "Fields of study"; Abstract defining the subject and summarizing its importance; "Key concepts" listing 5-10 important issues discussed; Each article offers a clear discussion of its topic. An entry on a mental illness addresses its cause, diagnosis, treatment, and impact. An entry on a theory or school examines its origin, history, and current status.
Descriptive subheadings divide the text, all terminology is explained, and context is provided to make the information accessible to general readers.
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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 246
Publication Date: 2005-11-29
Sales Rank: 2402788
ISBN / ASIN: 1861564635
EAN: 9781861564634
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
The book is the first of its kind to specifically outline the psycho-educational nursing interventions required by the anxious, ***** patient undergoing elective, ambulatory surgery. Anxiety management is a considerable issue for the majority of surgical patients and has been recognised as such for many decades. However, no formal nursing intervention currently exists to support patients during this acute phase.
This book is one of the first to provide strong evidence for the way in which patients can be assisted in the management of their anxiety. Moreover, it provides future direction for surgical nursing intervention in this new era of minimal invasive surgery where patients undergoing elective procedures increasingly require less physical nursing intervention and spend very little time within the acute hospital setting.
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Fast track route to mastering all aspects of stress management
Covers all the key techniques for reducing stress in yourself and your organization, from managing conflict to dealing with bullying and discrimination, and from ensuring a safe physical environment to improving labour relations
Examples and lessons from businesses that have successfully tackled stress, including Nike, Sony and Semco Inc, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Elaine Sternberg and Charles Handy
Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide
Expres***ec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world’s smartest thinkers.
Expres***ec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need:
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Publisher: Delta
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2002-11-26
Sales Rank: 16252
ISBN / ASIN: 0385336535
EAN: 9780385336536
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
As the legal controversy continues--this newly revised and updated third edition of the landmark bestseller contains new, critically important information for patients, loved ones, and medical personnel.
The original publication of Final Exit stunned the nation by offering people with terminal illness a choice on how--and when--to end their suffering. It helped thousands by giving clear instructions to doctors, nurses, and families on how to handle a patient’s request for euthanasia.
In the wake of court cases and legislative mandates, this revised and updated third edition goes far beyond the original to provide new information about the legality of euthanasia and assisted suicide, and a thoughtful examination of the personal issues involved. It has become the essential source to help loved ones and supportive doctors remain within existing laws and keep a person’s dying intimate, private, and dignified.
With deep compassion and sensitivity, it spells out why a living will may not be sufficient to have a person’s wishes carried out--and what document is a better alternative. It updates where to get proper drugs and exactly how to carry out the quickest, most peaceful way to make a final exit. Finally, it gently talks to a person considering self-deliverance about alternatives, planning, and the means to make every death a "good death" at our time of greatest need.
By David Semple, Roger Smyth, Jonathan Burns, Rajan Darjee, Andrew McIntosh,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 976
Publication Date: 2005-04-15
Sales Rank: 577154
ISBN / ASIN: 0198527837
EAN: 9780198527831
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry is a new book directed at medical students, doctors coming to psychiatry for the first time, psychiatric trainees, and other professionals who may have to deal with patients with psychiatric problems. It is written by a group of experienced, middle-grade psychiatrists and is designed to provide easy access to the information required by psychiatry trainees on the wards or on-call. It closely follows the familiar format of the Oxford Handbooks series, and provides coverage that is comprehensive, evidence based and practical. The content of the handbook is written in the concise, note-based style characteristic of the series, with topics confined to single pages. The book is divided into four sections: Fundamentals of Psychiatric Practice; General ***** Psychiatry; Psychiatric Subspecialties; and Useful Reference Material. Within each chapter, topics are covered in a clear, logical, manner. For the clinical disorders there is detailed information on the aetiology, epidemiology, clinical features, common differential diagnoses, assessment / investigation, management, and prognosis. There is in-depth coverage of psychiatric assessment, psychopathology, evidence-based practice, mental health legislation in the UK, therapeutic issues, transcultural psychiatry, and eponyms in psychiatry. The book is internally cross-referenced and has both key references to important papers and to further information resources. As well as being indexed alphabetically, it is also indexed by ICD-10 / DSM-IV codes, and there is a quick index for acute presentations. This Handbook is practical and directive in style, designed to provide portable reassurance to doctors beginning psychiatry. There is helpful advice for the management of difficult and urgent situations, and the text is peppered with clinical observations on the practice of clinical psychiatry and guidance based upon the experience of the authors.
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2004-10-05
Sales Rank: 34984
ISBN / ASIN: 0425196402
EAN: 9780425196403
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
The comprehensive examination into the frightening history of serial homicide.
In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century France, up to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee Lucas, Ted Bundy, and the emergence of what he classifies as the "serial rampage killer" such as Andrew Cunanan.
Vronsky not only offers sound theories on what makes a serial killer, but also provides concrete suggestions on how to survive an encounter with one-from recognizing verbal warning signs to physical confrontational resistance. Exhaustively researched with transcripts of interviews with killers, and featuring up-to-date information on the apprehension and conviction of the Green River Killer and the Beltway Snipers, Vronsky's one-of-a-kind book covers every conceivable aspect of an endlessly riveting true-crime phenomenon.
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"The comprehensive examination into the frightening history of serial homicide. In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century France, up to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee Lucas, Ted Bundy, and the emergence of what he classifies as the ""serial rampage killer"" such as Andrew Cunanan. Vronsky not only offers sound theories on what makes a serial killer, but also provides concrete suggestions on how to survive an encounter with one-from recognizing verbal warning signs to physical confrontational resistance. Exhaustively researched with transcripts of interviews with killers, and featuring up-to-date information on the apprehension and conviction of the Green River Killer and the Beltway Snipers, Vronsky's one-of-a-kind book covers every conceivable aspect of an endlessly riveting true-crime phenomenon."
By Kerry L. Jang
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2005-02-07
Sales Rank: 1805278
ISBN / ASIN: 0805843264
EAN: 9780805843262
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
New discoveries about the genetic underpinnings of psychopathology are now constantly being made. This book explores their impact on the ways in which the common mental disorders are best conceptualized and treated.
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How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now
Publisher: Basic Books
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: 1996-09
Sales Rank: 441005
ISBN / ASIN: 0465072771
EAN: 9780465072774
Binding: Hardcover
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William Calvin, a neurophysiologist and author of The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain, attempts to reclaim the study of human consciousness from physicists like Roger Penrose. Physicists, Calvin suggests, reduce the mind to subatomic particles and mathematical equations, whereas those in his specialty see the seat of consciousness and intelligence in higher levels of brain physiology--the neurons, synapses, and cortex. Calvin is a Darwinist who regards the unique level of human consciousness as the product of evolutionary forces that began with the ice ages two million years ago. The human response to this natural threat, he argues, was to develop mental faculties that allowed high-level communication and, thus, cooperation, leading to complex language capabilities and the distinguishing human characteristic of abstract thought.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 338
Publication Date: 2003-09-05
Sales Rank: 1051356
ISBN / ASIN: 0195141091
EAN: 9780195141092
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Selling Points - Presents the newest theoretical and empiral advances in the domain Relates clinical impliations and applications to basic research issues Gathers contributions in different sub-fields thate are rarely presented jointly During the past 25 years, the study of nonverbal behavior has become a signifcant subarea of psychology. Employing a variety of approaches and encompassing numerous perspectives, researchers have made important theoretical and empirical strides in discovering the origins, functions, and consequences of nonverbal behavior. This research has clearly shown that nonverbal behavior plays a far greater role than merely reflecting emotional experience -- it also plays a central role in psychological adaptation. This volume presents, in an integrated framework, contemporary perspectives on the role of nonverbal behavior in psychological regulation, adaptation, and psychopathology, and includes both empirical and theoretical research that is central to our understanding of the reciprocal influences between nonverbal behavior, psychopathology, and therapeutic processes. It has several objectives: One is to present fundamental theories and data relevant to researchers and clinicians working in such fields as psychopathology and psychotherapy. Another objective is to link contributions of basic research to clinical applications. Finally, the volume gathers contributions in different sub-fields that are rarely presented jointly, such as brain damage and non-verbal skills.
By Lisa L. Weyandt
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2005-08-16
Sales Rank: 1060256
ISBN / ASIN: 0805847197
EAN: 9780805847192
Binding: Paperback
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Up to twenty percent of the American population suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder, and cross-national studies suggest a high prevalence of such disorders elsewhere. In recent decades, advances in our knowledge of the brain are causing us to question many of the theories underlying traditional approaches to diagnosing and treating these disorders. Researchers in diverse fields—molecular genetics, behavioral, cognitive and clinical neuroscience, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, and neurology—have contributed to the advances. The new knowledge that has been amassed should inform work with clients, but for most practitioners and practitioners-in-training—who lack specialized background—it has been difficult to grasp. In this book, specifically designed to meet the needs of graduate students in clinical, counseling and school psychology programs, Lisa Weyandt offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, readable overview of our current understanding of the biological bases of psychopathology and its implications for intervention. Early chapters concisely and clearly explain the basics of brain structure and function and current research techniques; they set the stage for chapters examining each major group of disorders. An extensive art program underlines the important points.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 536
Publication Date: 2005-11-24
Sales Rank: 929448
ISBN / ASIN: 0198529619
EAN: 9780198529613
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
For many years the Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research (Scherer and Ekman, 1982) has been an invaluable text for researchers looking for methods to study nonverbal behavior and the expression of affect. A successor to this essential text, The New Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research is a substantially updated volume with 90% new material. It includes chapters on coding and methodological issues for a variety of areas in nonverbal behavior: facial actions, vocal behavior, and body movement. Issues relevant to judgment studies, methodology, reliability, analyses, etc. have also been updated. The topics are broad and include specific information about methodology and coding strategies in education, psychotherapy, deception, nonverbal sensitivity, and marital and group behavior. There is also a chapter detailing specific information on the technical aspects of recording the voice and face, and specifically in relation to deception studies. This volume will be valuable for both new researchers and those already working in the fields of nonverbal behavior, affect expression, and related topics. It will play a central role in further refining research methods and coding strategies, allowing a comparison of results from various laboratories where research on nonverbal behavior is being conducted. This will advance research in the field and help to coordinate results so that a more comprehensive understanding of affect expression can be developed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 202
Publication Date: 1993-01-15
Sales Rank: 317529
ISBN / ASIN: 0195062515
EAN: 9780195062519
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Developed from years of teaching psychiatry to medical students and residents, this comprehensive text devoted solely to describing the mental status examination (MSE) fills a void in the teaching literature and will be valuable to both students first learning about the MSE and seasoned clinicians seeking an informative reference. The introductory chapter offers basic advice on interviewing patients and eliciting information. Six major sections of the MSE follow and are thoroughly described with a chapter devoted to each: Appearance, Attitude, Activity; Mood and Affect; Speech and Language; Thought Content, Thought Process, and Perception; Cognition; and Insight and Judgement. Each chapter lists a detailed definition of reference for students describing their findings, and are an insightful review even for experienced practitioners. The clinical relevance of mental status abnormalities is illustrated through frequent examples of disorders that can cause the particular signs and symptoms defined in each chapter. A final chapter describing fictional case histories with hypothetical examples of written mental status reports will be particularly useful for those learning to write such reports. This text is an important addition to the libraries of students and practitioners who work with psychiatric patients and should help to simplify and organize a challenging task.
By Martin Knapp, David McDaid, Elias Mossialos, Graham Thornicroft,
Publisher: Open University Press
Number Of Pages: 488
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Sales Rank: 2744343
ISBN / ASIN: 0335214681
EAN: 9780335214686
By Louis H. Janda
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Number Of Pages: 108
Publication Date: 2001-05
Sales Rank: 1857471
ISBN / ASIN: 0471437239
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Dealing with Dementia: A Guide to Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
By Dr. Brian Draper
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2004-09-28
Sales Rank: 1477005
ISBN / ASIN: 1865088536
EAN: 9781865088532
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
This work examines dementia with a special focus on Alzheimer's disease. A down-to-earth, comprehensive, and compassionate resource, this guide provides guidance for anyone struggling to come to terms with a diagnosis of dementia for themselves or a loved one. Filled with practical advice on drug treatments, complementary therapies, and residential or respite care, this guide is an invaluable tool for anyone worried about the effects of aging on the mind.
Mental Health Information Systems: Mental Health Policy And Service Guidance Package
Publisher: World Health Organization
Number Of Pages: 114
Publication Date: 2005-10-31
Sales Rank: 4030192
ISBN / ASIN: 9241546719
EAN: 9789241546713
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Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment: A Guide for Pastoral Counselors
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By Gregory B., M.D. Collins, Thomas Culbertson,
Publisher: Haworth Press
Number Of Pages: 131
Publication Date: 2003-09
Sales Rank: 166553
ISBN / ASIN: 0789018799
EAN: 9780789018793
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Take your rightful place on the holistic health care team, with the goal of restoring vitality of body, mind, and spirit to people suffering from emotional illness!
This book is designed to bring essential knowledge and skills to the religious professional who seeks to provide special ministry to the emotionally troubled. It provides a basic understanding of psychiatric illnesses, theory, and treatment modalities that is certain to enlarge the perspective of the pastoral worker.
In addition to an essential overview of psychiatry in general, Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment: A Guide for Pastoral Counselors will help you to better serve people suffering from depression, anxiety disorders, chemical dependency, reality impairment, or personality disorders. The book's format is designed specifically to help pastors grasp the principles of intervention in each of these disorders. Each of its five concise clinical chapters follows a four-part format that covers the duties and responsibilities of the clergyman as part of the holistic health care team, consisting of:
recognizing the disorder
assessing its severity
intervening in a crisis
counseling in the recovery phase
In their experience, the authors have observed that severe emotional or psychiatric illnesses often involve spiritual sickness as well. Spiritual sickness is a complex concept that may take many forms depending on the type of emotional illness it accompanies. Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment: A Guide for Pastoral Counselors shows you what spiritual symptoms to look for when assessing someone in your care. For example, did you know that:
severe depressive illness could include the loss of faith, abandonment of hope, loss of a right relationship with God, or even self-hatred, guilt, despair, and self-annihilation
a psychotic reaction marked by loss of contact with reality might involve abnormal self-importance, grandiosity, fear, or stubbornly mistaken perceptions of reality
a problem with alcoholism might involve immoral behavior, irresponsible conduct, denial of the loss of control over liquor consumption, or abject guilt, shame, and self-hatred
personality disorders may bring on profound disturbances in social relationships, self-centered anger, impulsiveness, dishonesty, impurity, or distrust of others
people with anxiety disorders can lose their trust in God, develop obsessive fears and tensions, and become unable to turn things over to God's divine care
In Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment: A Guide for Pastoral Counselors, you'll find the information you need to make effective judgments and assessments about the people seeking your help. The book provides you with fascinating case studies that highlight symptoms and illness patterns as well as treatment options and techniques for coordinating pastoral counseling with the mental health team. You'll learn to recognize the spiritual symptoms of disease—negative, inappropriate, of self-defeating attitudes or behaviors—and to deal specifically with these manifestations of illness through pastoral intervention and counseling.
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The Primary Care Physician's Guide to Common Psychiatric and Neurologic Problems: Advice on Evaluation and Treatment from Johns Hopkins
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: 2001-03-09
Sales Rank: 1040946
ISBN / ASIN: 0801865549
EAN: 9780801865541
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Studio: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Description:
This concise volume advises primary care physicians on how to recognize, evaluate, and treat common psychiatric and neurologic complaints in patients with medical illness. Patients with these problems used to be referred to specialists, but under the current system of health care they are increasingly being evaluated and treated by internists and family practitioners.
The book contains twelve problem-focused chapters, each written by a specialist faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who is experienced in consulting with primary care physicians. The problems discussed are sadness, nervousness, forgetfulness, unrealistic concerns about health, suicidal thoughts, alcoholism and drug dependence, weakness, numbness, back pain, headaches, dizziness, and tremor. Screening evaluations for psychiatric and neurologic disorders are also outlined and explained.
The book is designed to serve as both an introduction and a convenient reference. The authors emphasize improving communication with patients about issues of diagnosis and treatment.
By Matthias Bormuth
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 173
Publication Date: 2006-07-28
Sales Rank: 2942200
ISBN / ASIN: 1402047649
EAN: 9781402047640
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
This award-winning book investigates the critique of psychoanalysis formulated by the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) over a period of five decades. His arguments against Freud and his followers are examined from systematic perspectives. The study traces the medico-historical roots of Jasper’s criticism of psychoanalysis and then places it within the framework of scientific theory before devoting itself extensively to medico-ethical aspects of the controversy, which are ultimately treated in terms of a history of mentalities. According to this view, Jasper’s student Hannah Arendt saw to it that the philosopher be made aware of the socio-cultural impact which psychoanalysis was beginning to have in the USA. The philosopher came to look upon psychoanalysis as a theory – in particular as it was propagated after 1945 in Germany and the US – whose claim to scientific objectivity constituted a serious threat to the freedom of the individual. Max Weber’s theory of science and his concept of modernity serve as a critical guide for the interpretation. Thus the normative premise of the investigation is the liberal idea that in a secular and pluralistic society it is ultimately the individual who is to take responsibility for life conduct.
By Eric R. Kandel
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2006-03-27
Sales Rank: 52115
ISBN / ASIN: 0393058638
EAN: 9780393058635
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Nobelist Eric Kandel's account of how his personal quest to understand memory intersected with the emergence of a new science.
In Search of Memory relates the astonishing story of how four different and distinct disciplines—behaviorist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology—converged into a powerful new science of mind. Through its profound insights into thought, perception, action, recollection, and mental illness, this new science is revolutionizing our understanding of learning and memory while simultaneously showing great promise for more effective healing.
The narrative follows Eric R. Kandel through the last five decades, focusing on Vienna, where he became fascinated with memory. With intrepid scientific ardor, Kandel was captivated first by history and psychoanalysis, then by neurobiology, and finally by the biological processes of memory. His resulting, multifaceted perspective was the foundation for his path-breaking research that will continue to dominate modern thought—not only in science but in culture at large. 50 illustrations.
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By Alex J. Zautra
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 328
Publication Date: 2003-02-05
Sales Rank: 1019583
ISBN / ASIN: 0195133595
EAN: 9780195133592
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
In this volume, Zautra illustrates how experience with difficult or stressful emotional situations can, contrary to popular belief, be beneficial; for example, our ability to adapt to stress can be improved by experiencing difficult moments of emotional intensity. Although people often feel the need to cope with problems before beginning to pursue happiness, the ability to move forward does not depend solely on correcting problems. The quality of our lives depends upon how well we integrate both the negative and the positive. Zautra identifies a unique and important role for stressful life events in shaping awareness of our emotional experiences. He offers an insightful view of how stress and emotions can influence health and illness, demonstrates the wide applicability of this perspective across domains of love and marriage, work, aging, and community, and provides new insights into clinical problems through a review of research on chronic pain, depression, child abuse, and addiction.
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Neurobehavioral Genetics: Methods and Applications, Second Edition
Publisher: CRC
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: 2006-08-30
Sales Rank: 295224
ISBN / ASIN: 084931903X
EAN: 9780849319037
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Neurobehavioral Genetics: Methods and Applications, Second Edition features a broad spectrum of the most current techniques in neurobehavioral genetics in a single source. Providing solid historical background, the introductory chapters examine past conceptual streams of behavior genetics. Later chapters discuss the applications of quantitative and molecular genetics in basic and clinical research. This edition offers a contemporary approach to the study of the brain and behavior. It also serves as an excellent resource for investigators who want to incorporate genetic methods into neurobehavioral and psychiatric research.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Number Of Pages: 1206
Publication Date: 2003-01-30
Sales Rank: 493241
ISBN / ASIN: 0262523027
EAN: 9780262523028
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Consciousness is at the very core of the human condition. Yet only in recent decades has it become a major focus in the brain and behavioral sciences. Scientists now know that consciousness involves many levels of brain functioning, from brainstem to cortex. The almost seventy articles in this book reflect the breadth and depth of this burgeoning field. The many topics covered include consciousness in vision and inner speech, immediate memory and attention, waking, dreaming, coma, the effects of brain damage, fringe consciousness, hypnosis, and dissociation.
Underlying all the selections are the questions, What difference does consciousness make? What are its properties? What role does it play in the nervous system? How do conscious brain functions differ from unconscious ones? The focus of the book is on scientific evidence and theory. The editors have also chosen introductory articles by leading scientists to allow a wide variety of new readers to gain insight into the field.
By Doula Nicolson
Publisher: David Fulton Publish
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2004-03-31
Sales Rank: 2483394
ISBN / ASIN: 1843121409
EAN: 9781843121404
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
First published in 1997, this book has been updated and revised to bring it in line with new legislation and current concerns. It is an eclectic reference book on adolescent emotional and behavioural problems, covering a range of psychological theories and approaches in a readable style. The theory presented is tied in with practical application using illustrative case studies and there are time-saving interview sheets and other material for teachers/counsellors to use.
Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 574
Publication Date: 2002-01-15
Sales Rank: 558761
ISBN / ASIN: 0126382816
EAN: 9780126382815
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Scott Shannon is an MD, president elect of the American Holistic Medical Association, and considered a national expert on holistic psychiatry. In this book he brings together a comprehensive overview of CAM treatments, with information on their effectiveness and safety for specific patient populations and for use in treating specific disorders. Modalities covered include Acupuncture, Nutritional Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Meditation, Biofeedback, Aromatherapy and others. Coverage also includes chapters on the best CAM modalities for treatment of Anxiety and PTSD, Depression, ADD, and Addictions.
Each chapter will be in a similar template, beginning with a description of the treatment, it's safety, compatibility with conventional treatments and/or contrindications, scientific documentation of it's efficacy, discussion of which disorders it is best used for, and references.
Key Features
* Most comprehensive overview of rapidly expanding field
* Includes chapters by 24 leading psychiatric/psychological experts in these fields
* Documents and rates the research base in each area
* Offers practical clinical approaches for four common mental health concernsdepression, anxiety, ADHD, and addictions
* Areas not yet covered in professional training
* Practices commonly employed by the public (40-50% of the American public use complementary or alternative approaches)
* No previous book of this nature or scope
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The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes: Neurobiology and Illness Behavior in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Gulf War Illness, Irritable Bowel, and Premenstrual Dsphoria
By Peter Manu
Publisher: Haworth Press
Number Of Pages: 299
Publication Date: 2004-04
Sales Rank: 1027377
ISBN / ASIN: 078901260X
EAN: 9780789012609
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Learn how a patient's behavior can factor into the prognosis of medically unexplainable illness!
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes examines the link between mental illness and physical syndromes that lack organic disease explanations, including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, premenstrual dysphoria, irritable bowel, and Gulf War illness.
The author has evaluated the best research work of the past 20 years to determine the association between psychopathology and functional illness, the biological gradient between somatic and psychological symptoms, and the manifestations of dysfunctional coping.
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes challenges recent conceptualizations of functional somatic syndromes as brain disorders connected to affective spectrum disorder, serotonin deficiency, cerebral hypoperfusion or abnormal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function and highlights the importance of abnormal illness behavior, ***ual victimization, and maladaptive coping for the production and maintenance of these disorders.
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes explores observations on the neurobiology and the personality abnormalities of patients made from structured data collected over a period of several years. It describes modern perceptions of functional somatic syndromes and how they have evolved into a tightly knit family of self-standing syndromes with a common core. The book examines the correlation between the burden of psychopathology and the physical features of these illnesses; reviews advances made in the appraisal of the neuroanatomy, neuropsychology, and neurochemistry of functional syndromes; and focuses on the connection between measurable dimensions of personality, coping, and illness behavior and the prognosis of medically unexplainable illnesses.
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes examines:
psychiatric morbidity brain perfusion
post-traumatic stress in Gulf War illness the spectrum of mood disorders the hypothalamatic-pituitary-adrenal axis the ***ual victimization of patients and much more!
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes is an essential resource for psychiatrists and psychologists working in outpatient practice.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2005-08-16
Sales Rank: 989294
ISBN / ASIN: 0805857745
EAN: 9780805857740
Binding: Paperback
Product Description:
Emotional disorders such as anxiety, depression, and dysfunctional patterns of eating are clearly among the most devastating and prevalent confronting practitioners, and they have received much attention from researchers—in personality, social, cognitive, and developmental psychology, as well as in clinical psychology and psychiatry. A major recent focus has been cognitive vulnerability, which seems to set the stage for recurrences of symptoms and episodes. In the last five years there has been a rapid proliferation of studies. In this book, leading experts present the first broad synthesis of what we have now learned about the nature, of cognitive factors that seem to play a crucial role in creating and maintaining vulnerability across the spectrum of emotional disorders. An introductory chapter considers theory and research design and methodology and constructs a general conceptual framework for understanding and studying the relationships between developmental and cognitive variables and later risk, and the difference between distal cognitive antecedents of disorders (e.g. depressive inferential styles, dysfunctional attitudes) and proximal ones (e.g. schema activation or inferences). Subsequent chapters are organized into three sections, on mood, anxiety, and eating disorders. Each section ends with an integrative overview chapter that offers both incisive commentary and insightful suggestions for further systematic research. A rich resource for all those professionally concerned with these problems, Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders advances both clinical science and clinical practice.
Publisher: Nightingale-Conant
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 2003-06-01
Sales Rank: 40663
ISBN / ASIN: 0743530136
EAN: 9780743530132
Book Description:
With Magical Mind, Magical Body, Dr. Chopra helps listeners to uncover the healing power of the mind and utilize th epower of quantum healing to gain a perfect balance of mind, body and spirit.
In Magical Mind, Magical Body, Dr. Deepak Chpra shows you how to reconstruct the blueprint of your body so that you can enjoy perfect health, higher levels of energy and vitality, and enhanced inner peace. This revolutionary approach tells how you can achieve these results through the power of your mind.
Chopra explains the "quantum mechanical body" -- a level where thought is turned into physical reality. He tells you how to harness these new insights to make your cells think, and your thoughts move healing energy. In doing so, you will create the kind of health and mental state that you desire.
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10-07-2007, 06:13 AM
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Clinicians (Psychotherapy in Clinical Practice), 1st ed (2006
By Donna M Sudak
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 180
Publication Date: 2006-02-02
Sales Rank: 471638
ISBN / ASIN: 0781760445
EAN: 9780781760447
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
The Psychotherapy in Clinical Practice series incorporates essential therapeutic principles into clinically relevant patient management. This second volume, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Clinicians, familiarizes clinicians with the theory and clinical use of cognitive behavioral therapy. The book explains the historical development and theoretical foundations of cognitive behavioral therapy, the importance of individual case conceptualization, the patient-therapist relationship, the therapeutic process, and specific treatment techniques and presents models for the treatment of common psychiatric disorders, including depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, social phobia, and personality disorders. Several cases are presented at the beginning of the book and discussed as examples throughout the text.
Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
By Louise Rebraca Shives
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Sales Rank: 605837
ISBN / ASIN: 0781745179
EAN: 9780781745178
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Now with an exciting 4-color design, this core text continues to present succinct coverage of psychiatric-mental health nursing, emphasizing critical concepts in the continuum of care settings, client and family education and student self-awareness. This edition features two new chapters: “Student Issues and Concerns” and “Loss, Grief and End of Life Care.” The Sixth Edition also maintains popular features from previous editions including Self Awareness Prompts while adding research boxes and student worksheets at the end of each chapter.
A back-of-book CD-ROM includes NCLEX questions, clinical simulations on schizophrenia and depression, and psychotropic drug monographs. An Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM is also available.
Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 456
Publication Date: 1998-06-15
Sales Rank: 1373681
ISBN / ASIN: 0124756557
EAN: 9780124756557
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory provides an excellent overview of current information on this fast-growing field of neurobiology. The contents have been structured for use as a course text or as a handy resource for researchers in neuro- and cognitive psychology. It discusses learning and memory from developmental, pharmacological, and psychobiological perspectives, as well as changes in learning and memory with age. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory also includes research on invertebrates and vertebrates, presenting basics in anatomy and development along with computational models. It is written in an easy-to-follow format with summaries at the end of each chapter.
Key Features
* Provides an overview of information on the neurobiology of learning and memory
* Discusses learning and memory from developmental, pharmacological, and psychobiological perspectives, and changes in learning and memory with age
* Includes research on invertebrates and vertebrates
* Gives basics on anatomy and development
* Written for easy comprehension with chapter summaries
By Temple Grandin
Publisher: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2006-01-10
Sales Rank: 3247
ISBN / ASIN: 0307275655
EAN: 9780307275653
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.
In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in Thinking in Pictures is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity.
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Number Of Pages: 334
Publication Date: 2002-02-15
Sales Rank: 319222
ISBN / ASIN: 0262182246
EAN: 9780262182249
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, and brain imaging studies have helped to shed light on how the brain transforms raw sensory information into a form that is useful for goal-directed behavior. A fundamental question that is seldom addressed by these studies, however, is why the brain uses the types of representations it does and what evolutionary advantage, if any, these representations confer. It is difficult to address such questions directly via animal experiments. A promising alternative is to use probabilistic principles such as maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference to derive models of brain function.
This book surveys some of the current probabilistic approaches to modeling and understanding brain function. Although most of the examples focus on vision, many of the models and techniques are applicable to other modalities as well. The book presents top-down computational models as well as bottom-up neurally motivated models of brain function. The topics covered include Bayesian and information-theoretic models of perception, probabilistic theories of neural coding and spike timing, computational models of lateral and cortico-cortical feedback connections, and the development of receptive field properties from natural signals.
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Creativity in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: A Special Issue of the Creativity Research Journal
Publisher: TF-LEA
Number Of Pages: 136
Publication Date: 2001-02
Sales Rank: 1738414
ISBN / ASIN: 0805897399
EAN: 9780805897395
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
The articles in this special issue seek to re-examine the relationship between creativity and the schizophrenia spectrum of disorders in the wake of recent research and theorizing. They revisit both empirical and conceptual findings and issues regarding connections between the schizophrenia spectrum of disorders: schizotypy, psychotic-like traits, and creativity.
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REVIEW BY BARBARA LIPKIEN GERSHENBAUM
PsychNotes by Darlene Pedersen is more than a handbook for health care workers. The author says: "Although the intended audience, originally, was students and professionals in a clinical setting, [she] is finding that 'civilians' are very interested in this handbook." She goes on to say that, " ... the attraction may be the ease with which one can find the topics, or perhaps, it's the succint language used to describe disorders. I also include client/family/lay person education and even cover geriatrics ... dementia, depression, and the many conditions that emerge as people age. Now that life expectancy is so much longer than in the past families and loved ones need support and help which I have organized for them. It's a quick reference at the point-of-care. It also in essence summarizes all of psychiatry (***** and geriatric)"
Nonprofessionals (lay persons) who have received a copy, said:
" We devoured the book last night and find it so useful." Pedersen thinks that the geriatric section appeals to a lot of people as well as the sections on dementia. I try to help families by providing some tools for dealing with family members with dementia, depression, loss, grief, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia." She also provides sections on medications and their proper use.
Pedersen says she has gotten great feedback about the way PsychNotes is presented and explains that, "The basic Notes series was not my idea, nor the wipe-free pages, trim size, or tabular format. The wipe-free pages grew out of the need to be especially careful with patient information (HIPAA compliant) so that all personal/confidential information could be essentially deleted after a session and when charting was done."
PsychNotes is an extraordinary guide and throughout Pedersen has provided Clinical Pearls that translate the knowledge to practice. She says, "Information in a vacuum is useless - how does it relate to the individual client to assure good and safe care? Does glaucoma in and of itself matter? Yes, if one needs to prescribe an antipsychotic as glaucoma is a contraindication. Why do you need to know if there is a family history of diabetes when prescribing an antipsychotic? What herbals must you watch out for when taking an antidepressant or over the counter medications? A rash in a patient on anticonvulsants could be life threatening. Very important information."
Darlene Pederson also has a
Website: F.A. DAVIS COMPANY.COM/PSYCHNOTES
where you can find many resources for families/clients/patients/anyone interested in or needing information relevant to various disorders.
PsychNotes is a revolutionary handbook that brings together a plethora of topics described in approachable language and form to allow everyone to learn about health concerns.
REVIEWED BY BARBARA LIPKIEN GERSHENBAUM
Psych notes: Clinical Pocket Guide
By Darlene D. Pedersen
Publisher: F. A. Davis Company
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: 2005-03-30
Sales Rank: 34921
ISBN / ASIN: 0803612869
EAN: 9780803612860
Binding: Spiral-bound
Manufacturer: F. A. Davis Company
Studio: F. A. Davis Company
By John Barell
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
Number Of Pages: 244
Publication Date: 2003-02
Sales Rank: 272211
ISBN / ASIN: 0871207192
EAN: 9780871207197
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
After the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, many people questioned why no one had anticipated the terrorists' acts, even when events and intelligence seemed to point toward them. John Barell wonders if the attacks speak to a greater societal problem of complacency. He believes many students have become too passive in their learning, accepting information and "facts" as presented in textbooks, classes, and the media. Drawing on anecdotes from educators and his own life, Barell describes practical strategies to spur students' ability and willingness to pose and answer their own questions. Antarctica expeditions, outer space discoveries, dinosaur fossils, literature, and more help define the importance of developing an inquisitive mind, using such practices as
* Maintaining journals on field trips,
* Using questioning frames and models when reading texts,
* Engaging in critical thinking and problem-based learning, and
* Integrating inquiry into curriculum development and the classroom culture. To become habits of mind, students' daily curiosities must be nurtured and supported. Barell draws a vivid map to guide readers to "an intelligent revolution" in which schools can become places where educators and students imagine and work together to become active citizens in their society.
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After the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, many people questioned why no one had anticipated the terrorists' acts, even when events and intelligence seemed to point toward them. John Barell wonders if the attacks speak to a greater societal problem of complacency. He believes many students have become too passive in their learning, accepting information and "facts" as presented in textbooks, classes, and the media. Drawing on anecdotes from educators and his own life, Barell describes practical strategies to spur students' ability and willingness to pose and answer their own questions. Antarctica expeditions, outer space discoveries, dinosaur fossils, literature, and more help define the importance of developing an inquisitive mind, using such practices as * Maintaining journals on field trips, * Using questioning frames and models when reading texts, * Engaging in critical thinking and problem-based learning, and * Integrating inquiry into curriculum development and the classroom culture. To become habits of mind, students' daily curiosities must be nurtured and supported. Barell draws a vivid map to guide readers to "an intelligent revolution" in which schools can become places where educators and students imagine and work together to become active citizens in their society.
By David J. Lieberman
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2000-05-10
Sales Rank: 97823
ISBN / ASIN: 0312209045
EAN: 9780312209049
Binding: Hardcover
Amazon.com:
Tired of being manipulated and taken advantage of? Want to learn how to influence and motivate others, turn associates into friends, and win in any competition? Then consider reading Get Anyone to Do Anything and Never Feel Powerless Again by David J. Lieberman, bestselling author of Never Be Lied to Again and nationally recognized leader in the field of human behavior.
Based on psychological principles, this book is less about manipulation and more about observing and influencing people (including yourself) and learning how to take control of situations. Most of Lieberman's techniques are straightforward, user-friendly, and practical. You'll learn simple ways to make a fantastic first impression, get people to return your phone calls, and stop a rumor before it ruins you. You don't even have to read the text to benefit. To help you get the upper hand quickly, strategies are reviewed at the end of each chapter. While some suggestions are obvious (smile and make eye contact), the five sections and 40 chapters contain many gems that can help improve your life. --Ellen Albertson
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Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2001-07-10
Sales Rank: 30026
ISBN / ASIN: 0802138195
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Can you fix your own neurologic problems without resorting to drugs? Science writer Jim Robbins suggests that some such conditions--like epilepsy, autism, and depression--could yield to a recently developed technique called neurofeedback. His book A Symphony in the Brain describes the process, its evolution from the 1970s fad of biofeedback, its practitioners, and some of its success stories. Using computers to quickly provide information on real-time EEG, practitioners train patients to control global or local brain states--or so the theory goes. Unfortunately for its proponents, there are still no rigorous research data showing conclusive results. Robbins makes a good case that the lack of research is due more to scientific turf battles and a drug-dependent medical establishment than to any fault of neurofeedback. Some of the case studies he explores, of children and *****s brought out of comas or trained to reduce their epileptic seizure frequency, suggest that we ought to look more deeply and rigorously into the technique. Whether it works can only be determined by controlled studies, which may be forthcoming. In the meantime, Robbins provides contact lists and additional research information for interested readers, as well as the inspiration to pursue a potentially life-saving treatment. --Rob Lightner
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Imagine a procedure versatile enough to treat epilepsy, autism, attention deficit disorder, addictions, and depression with no drugs or side effects; to bring patients out of vegetative states; and to improve everything from golf scores to opera singers' voices. These are only some of the claims made for neurofeedback, a controversial but effective treatment that is revolutionizing the way an incredibly diverse range of medical and psychological conditions are treated. In A Symphony in the Brain, Jim Robbins traces the fascinating, untold story of the development of neurofeedback, from its discovery by a small corps of research psychologists, to its growing application across the country and around the world, to present battles for acceptance in the conservative medical world. Offering a wealth of powerful case studies, accessible scientific explanations, and dramatic personal accounts, Robbins journeys through a remarkable field, which he brings to the public eye for the first time.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: 2005-06-16
Sales Rank: 663969
ISBN / ASIN: 0198520646
EAN: 9780198520641
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
With the publication of this book psychotherapy finally arrives at the mainstream of mental health practice. This volume is an essential companion for every practising psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, psychotherapy counsellor, mental health nurse, psychotherapist, and mental health practitioner. It is integrative in spirit, with chapters written by an international panel of experts who combine theory and research with practical treatment guidelines and illustrative case examples to produce an invaluable book. Part One gives a comprehensive account of all the major psychotherapeutic approaches. Parts Two and Three systematically describe psychotherapeutic approaches to the major psychiatric disorders and personality disorders. Many chapters are multi-authored and describe the psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural and other approaches for treating these illnesses. Part Four examines applications and modifications of psychotherapy across the lifecycle. Part Five describes psychotherapy with specific populations such as medical patients and those where gender is an issue, and finally Part Six tackles some of the special topics of concern to psychotherapists including ethics, legal issues, and psychotherapy and neuroscience. The first of its kind, this is a 'must have' volume for all trainee and practising psychological therapists, whatever their background - psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing.
By David Matsumoto, Linda Juang,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: 2003-07-25
Sales Rank: 225544
ISBN / ASIN: 0534535917
EAN: 9780534535919
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
David Matsumoto and new co-author Linda Juang show students the importance of culture in explaining and understanding human behavior in this new edition of the market-leading text, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY. Using a cross-cultural framework to evaluate psychology, and reflecting the most current research, the authors engage students by inviting them to understand and raise questions about traditional knowledge and theories, and about the relationship of culture and psychology.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
Sales Rank: 106925
ISBN / ASIN: 0781751861
EAN: 9780781751865
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
The psychiatric interview is your window into the mind of your patient. With this practical, how-to handbook, you'll examine each aspect of the psychiatric interview in detail. Your journey begins with the general principles essential to effective interviewing--including techniques for approaching threatening topics, improving patient recall, and dealing with challenging patients. The sections that follow show you how to obtain the psychiatric history, interview for diagnosis, and interview for treatment. The Practical Guides in Psychiatry series provides quick, concise information for professionals on the front lines of mental health care. Written in an easy-to-read, conversational style, these invaluable resources take you through each step of the psychiatric care process, delivering fast facts and helpful strategies that help you provide effective and compassionate care to your patients. Make The Psychiatric Interview your bridge to understanding. . Useful appendices include data forms, patient education handouts, and other frequently referenced information in a format that's easy to photocopy. . Handy pocket cards that accompany the book provide a portable, quick-reference to often needed facts. NEW to the Second Edition... . Updated chapters on the major psychiatric disorders to help you refine your diagnostic skills. . New chapters on Techniques for the Malingering Patient and Assessing Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. . New Clinical Vignettes let you see the basic components of the psychiatric interview in action. When you're at the forefront of mental health care, let this practical handbook show you how to make the most of the psychiatric interview. Order your copy today.
By Richard I Shader, Richard I. Shader,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: 2002-10-28
Sales Rank: 781158
ISBN / ASIN: 0781724708
EAN: 9780781724708
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Thoroughly updated in a Third Edition, Dr. Shader's popular Spiral(R) Manual is a practical, authoritative, easy-to-use guide to the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. This edition features new chapters on pharmacotherapy for children and youth and on pain management and an expanded chapter on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in youth and *****s. Coverage also includes complete updates on all psychotropic drugs and an expanded, totally revamped chapter on drug interactions. A new appendix presents a bibliography of algorithms for psychopharmacology and lists Websites to consult for updated iterations. This edition is also available electronically for handheld computers. See Media listing for details.
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Help Yourself Move Out of Depression and Anxiety
Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Research
Number Of Pages: 110
Publication Date: 2001-02
Sales Rank: 2572649
ISBN / ASIN: 0864313489
EAN: 9780864313485
twelve simple steps this program will help you become the person you would like to be. It will lead you to greater enjoyment of life. You will feel better about yourself and the world around you because the program teaches you to be in control of how you think and feel. The program will work for you because: SUCCESS with this program requires that you COMMIT YOURSELF TO FOLLOW IT DAILY This Introduction explains why you should try the program and how to commit yourself to following it daily. The Contents gives an overview of the program structure by showing what is involved in each step. Note that each step is important in its own right, and each is designed to move you further in a natural progression towards your goal. Combining all the steps, and applying them consistently, will achieve the final result of lifting you from and keeping you clear of anxiety and depression. Please take the steps in the order in which they are presented, and keep a record of your progress for your own information. It is easy to monitor how you are going if you use the weekly record sheets in the Appendix
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How to Develop a Super Power Memory
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By Harry Lorayne
Publisher: Frederick Fell Publishers
Number Of Pages: 217
Publication Date: 1989-09
Sales Rank: 617658
ISBN / ASIN: 0811901815
EAN: 9780811901819
Memory is money!
Memory is power!
Memory improves relationships!
Imagine you are taking a crucial exam and suddenly you forget some major facts! Or you are at a business meeting and the name of the all-important client escapes your mind! Or you are wooing this girl,and call her by a different name!
Memory can turn the tide in your favour, or against it. Now with this book tap into your most precious resource and unleash the natural powers within you. You will never again have to be told anything twice...
Some insights into developing Super Memory:
*There is no such thing as poor memory-only a trained,and untrained one. There is no limit to the capacity of the memory.
*If you can remember anything by association-you can do it with anything else.
*Use link-method which shows how to associate ridiculous mental images with the items you want to remember.
*Memorise the Morse Code in just half an hour.
*Remember the lay and play of cards in any card game.
About the author:
TV infomercial star Harry Lorayne reveals his positive methods of developing a photographic memory. If knowledge is powerful then memory is super powerful! You will increase your memory capacity by tenfold and learn to accurately recall anything, anytime, anywhere - such as : Prices, Phone Numbers, Names, Codes, Details, Facts, Orders etc.
Harry Lorayne appears frequently on his US-wide television infomercials. He is recognised as the most respected and foremost authority on memory and the author of a dozen books, including several best-sellers (Secrets of Mind Power, The Memory Book, and Memory Makes Money). His exceptionally productive memory training programmes continue to be used by many of leading American Corporations.
By Harry Lorayne
Publisher: Frederick Fell Publishers
Number Of Pages: 217
Publication Date: 1989-09
Sales Rank: 617658
ISBN / ASIN: 0811901815
EAN: 9780811901819
Memory is money!
Memory is power!
Memory improves relationships!
Imagine you are taking a crucial exam and suddenly you forget some major facts! Or you are at a business meeting and the name of the all-important client escapes your mind! Or you are wooing this girl,and call her by a different name!
Memory can turn the tide in your favour, or against it. Now with this book tap into your most precious resource and unleash the natural powers within you. You will never again have to be told anything twice...
Some insights into developing Super Memory:
*There is no such thing as poor memory-only a trained,and untrained one. There is no limit to the capacity of the memory.
*If you can remember anything by association-you can do it with anything else.
*Use link-method which shows how to associate ridiculous mental images with the items you want to remember.
*Memorise the Morse Code in just half an hour.
*Remember the lay and play of cards in any card game.
About the author:
TV infomercial star Harry Lorayne reveals his positive methods of developing a photographic memory. If knowledge is powerful then memory is super powerful! You will increase your memory capacity by tenfold and learn to accurately recall anything, anytime, anywhere - such as : Prices, Phone Numbers, Names, Codes, Details, Facts, Orders etc.
Harry Lorayne appears frequently on his US-wide television infomercials. He is recognised as the most respected and foremost authority on memory and the author of a dozen books, including several best-sellers (Secrets of Mind Power, The Memory Book, and Memory Makes Money). His exceptionally productive memory training programmes continue to be used by many of leading American Corporations.
By T.J. Wray, Ann Back Price,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2005-02-18
Sales Rank: 393096
ISBN / ASIN: 0787976784
EAN: 9780787976781
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
"A program for using dreams as a tool for healing loss The universal experience of grief dreams can help us heal after the death of a loved one. T.J. Wray and Ann Back Price show how dreams can be uplifting, affirming, consoling, and inspiring. The authors guide readers in ways to understand and value their dreams, how to keep a grief dream journal, and how to use dreams as tools for healing and consolation. This book is designed to help mourners reclaim some measure of power in navigating the most difficult journey of their lives. And, because it is helpful for any type of loss, Grief Dreams is an ideal condolence gift. Dr. T. J. Wray, author of Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an ***** Brother or Sister Dies, is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island and the creator of www.griefdreams.com. Ann Back Price is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice and a Clinical Teaching Associate at Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island."
By Ron Hale-Evans
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 330
Publication Date: 2006-02-06
Sales Rank: 7819
ISBN / ASIN: 0596101538
EAN: 9780596101534
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
You're smart. This book can make you smarter. Mind Performance Hacks provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace of today's information economy, managing your life requires hacking your brain. With this book, you'll cut through the clutter and tune up your brain intentionally, safely, and productively. Grounded in current research and theory, but offering practical solutions you can apply immediately, Mind Performance Hacks is filled with life hacks that teach you to:
Use mnemonic tricks to remember numbers, names, dates, and other flotsam you need to recall
Put down your calculator and perform complex math in your head, with your fingers, or on the back of a napkin
Spark your creativity with innovative brainstorming methods
Use effective systems to capture new ideas before they get away
Communicate in creative new ways-even using artificial languages
Make better decisions by foreseeing problems and finding surprising solutions
Improve your mental fitness with cool tricks and games
While the hugely successful Mind Hacks showed you how your brain works, Mind Performance Hacks shows you how to make it work better.
Book Description
This revised title in the Magill's Choice series features 127 essays. One-third of these topics did not appear in the previous edition of Psychology Basics. The remaining two-thirds have the same or similar titles but were either newly commissioned for the revision of the larger encyclopedia or feature updated text--bringing them in line with the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR (2000)--and "Sources for Further Study" sections offering the latest editions and scholarship. Additions to the Revised Edition include new top matter, tailored subheadings guiding readers through the text, photographs, helpful lists of diagnostic criteria from the DSM-IV-TR, and an appendix Biographical List of Psychologists with brief profiles of major figures in the field, both past and present. As a result, Psychology Basics, Revised Edition supersedes the previous Psychology Basics and should prove to be even more valuable.
A Parent's Guide to Special Education: Insider Advice on How to Navigate the System and Help Your Child Succeed
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By Linda Wilmshurst, Alan W. Brue,
Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
Number Of Pages: 262
Publication Date: 2005-07-30
Sales Rank: 145782
ISBN / ASIN: 0814472834
EAN: 9780814472835
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
The term 'special education' encompasses dozens of learning challenges: developmental delay, learning and physical disabilities, emotional disturbance, retardation, language impairment, autism, and others. By nature of this diversity, navigating even well-run, well-funded special education programs can be daunting. A Parent's Guide to Special Education offers guidance to parents and their children -- as well as to teachers, counselors, and administrators -- on issues including:
* diagnosis and awareness
* special education laws
* eligibility issues and requirements
* programs
* parenting issues
* communication between parents and schools
* and much more
A Parent's Guide to Special Education offers invaluable information and a positive vision of special education that will help them through a potentially overwhelming process. Filled with practical recommendations, sample forms, and enlightening examples, this is a priceless resource for helping every child learn.
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By Hubbard/Martin
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Number Of Pages: 326
Publication Date: 2001-07-27
Sales Rank: 2077276
ISBN / ASIN: 0824705874
EAN: 9780824705879
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
This up-to-the-minute reference explores current trends, disease etiology and associations, novel assessment tools, and modern laboratory tests to promote coordinated treatment of comorbid substance abuse, psychiatric disease, and general medical conditions-recognizing the causal relationship between substance abuse and medical and psychiatric disorders and the effect of addiction on the outcome of individual patient recovery. Provides a discussion by Pietro Castelnuovo-Tedesco on the psychodynamic principles that guide the treatment of patients with substance abuse disorders-with or without concurrent medical or psychiatric illnesses! Reviewing major epidemiological studies on psychiatric comorbidity, Substance Abuse in the Mentally and Physically Disabled addresses · diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver, stroke, depression, dementia, AIDS, and those of the neurological and cardiovascular systems that are closely related to alcohol and drug abuse · withdrawal symptoms, drug cravings, and agitation in recovery of drug-dependent patients · delay of emotional healing in drug abusers · substance misuse, behavior, and physical health in the elderly · additional topics! Written by seasoned experts in the field, Substance Abuse in the Mentally and Physically Disabled is a timely and comprehensive tool for psychiatrists, neuropsychiatrists, and neuropsychopharmacologists; psychologists and substance abuse and addiction specialists, social workers, and counselors; primary care physicians; rehabilitation specialists; pharmacologists; behavioral scientists, and medical school and graduate students in these disciplines.
By Ghaemi
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Number Of Pages: 346
Publication Date: 2002-05-15
Sales Rank: 1745221
ISBN / ASIN: 0824707761
EAN: 9780824707767
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
This practical reference examines the advantages and disadvantages of polypharmacy in psychiatry, and provides up-to-date clinical guidelines on the appropriate use of combinations of pharmacological therapy in major psychiatric disorders-including multidisciplinary approaches to treatment, such as social work and psychopharmacology, and an examination of the psychotherapeutic and historical aspects of polypharmacy. Consolidates all available and current material on polypharmacy and psychiatry into one comprehensive volume. Polypharmacy in Psychiatry discusses therapy of · schizophrenia and the use of atypical antipsychotic agents · anxiety disorders · post-traumatic stress disorder and the roles of serotonin, opioids, and glutamate · bipolar disorder and the use of novel anticonvulsants · clinical depression and the use of thyroid hormone and lithium augmentation, serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and neuroleptic agents · psychiatric disorders in children, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, tic disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, and conduct disorders · the medically ill psychiatric patient · the elderly Polypharmacy in Psychiatry also discusses · the use of alternative and herbal medications · psychosocial aspects of polypharmacy · the psychology of polypharmacy · cultural components of polypharmacy · historical background Featuring more than 700 works cited, this invaluable reference is essential reading for psychiatrists; psychopharmacologists; behavioral neurologists; psychiatric nurse practitioners; social workers; clinical psychologists and other psychotherapists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2002-01-11
Sales Rank: 692431
ISBN / ASIN: 0824706420
EAN: 9780824706425
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Contains guidelines and recommendations-in tabular form for quick reference-on patient evaluation and optimal treatment for long-term care! Based on evidence from recent systematic clinical research studies, this comprehensive reference provides the latest information on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of schizophrenia-highlighting modern diagnostic tools and current therapeutic advances for the prevention of hallucinations, thought disorganization, and negative symptoms. Emphasizes family education and psychoeducation, and community-centered treatments for patient rehabilitation and adherence to management programs! With consideration of the chronic nature of the disease, Schizophrenia details · the effect of substance abuse and drug dependence on rehabilitation and treatment · second-generation antipsychotic drugs, including olanzapine, quetiapine, risperiodone, and ziprasidone · contemporary strategies to prevent depression and suicide · patterns of patient compliance and noncompliance · violence and forensic hospitalization With over 600 useful references, Schizophrenia is an essential source for psychiatrists and psychopharmacologists, clinical neurologists and neuropsychopharmacologists, psychologists, primary care physicians, social workers, nurses, and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.
By Patricia Ainsworth
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Number Of Pages: 174
Publication Date: 2000-03
Sales Rank: 440717
ISBN / ASIN: 1578061695
EAN: 9781578061693
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Univ. of Mississippi, Jackson. Explores the reality of the illness known as depression. Discusses the different types of depression, the kinds of people at risk, and the risk factors of suicide. Covers how the brain works, body communication with it, and how in depression, the process fails. For consumers. Softcover, hardcover not yet available.
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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 2003-12-02
Sales Rank: 150082
ISBN / ASIN: 0471486930
EAN: 9780471486930
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Rumination (recyclic negative thinking), is now recognised as important in the development, maintenance and relapse of recurrence of depression. For instance, rumination has been found to elevate, perpetuate and exacerbate depressed mood, predict future episodes of depression, and delay recovery during cognitive therapy.
Cognitive therapy is one of the most effective treatments for depression. However, depressive relapse and recurrence following cognitive therapy continue to be a significant problem. An understanding of the psychological processes which contribute to relapse and recurrence may guide the development of more effective interventions.
This is a major contribution to the study and treatment of depression which reviews a large body of research on rumination and cognitive processes, in depression and related disorders, with a focus on the implications of this knowledge for treatment and clinical management of these disorders.
First book on rumination in depressive and emotional disorders
Contributors are the leaders in the field
First editor is a rising researcher and clinician with specialist interest in depression, and second editor is world renowned for his work on cognitive therapy of emotional disorders
Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 486
Publication Date: 2000-03
Sales Rank: 456143
ISBN / ASIN: 0121993701
EAN: 9780121993702
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Clinicians and mental health practitioners are regularly called upon to treat patients of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Not only do these patients differ from Anglos in culture and language, but also in customs, beliefs, values, and practices. Understanding these differences is vital to performing an accurate diagnosis/assessment of psychopathology as well as in determining an effective treatment regimen.
This book provides vital information to clinicians worldwide in bettering their treatment of diverse populations. Each chapter identifies relevant cultural variables specific to each racial/ethnic group, along with ethnocultural measures and their relevant psychometric properties. Part 1 presents introductory material on the definition of mental illness and pathological behavior in differing cultures, epidemiological data on the prevalence of different disorders between differing population groups, culture specific beliefs (e.g. hexes), and the influence of culture on treatment. Part 2 discusses assessment issues including how specific measures (Rorschach, MMPI, etc.) are best interpreted with different population groups, and the existence and use of ethnocultural specific measures. Part 3 discusses assessment and treatment of specific population groups (e.g., Indians, Asians, Latinos, etc.).
Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 855
Publication Date: 2001-05
Sales Rank: 852581
ISBN / ASIN: 0127016325
EAN: 9780127016320
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Cultural psychiatry is primarily concerned with the transcultural aspects of mental health related to human behavior, psychopathology and treatment. At a clinical level, cultural psychiatry aims to promote culturally relevant mental health care for patients of diverse ethnic or cultural backgrounds. From the standpoint of research, cultural psychiatry is interested in studying how ethnic or cultural factors may influence human behavior and psychopathology as well as the art of healing. On a theoretical level, cultural psychiatry aims to expand the knowledge and theories about mental health-related human behavior and mental problems by widening the sources of information and findings transculturally, and providing cross-cultural validation. This work represents the first comprehensive attempt to pull together the clinical, research and theoretical findings in a single volume.
Key Features
* Written by a nationally and internationally well-known author and scholar
* The material focuses not only on the United States but also on various cultural settings around the world so that the subject matter can be examined broadly from universal as well as cross-cultural perspectives
* Proper combination of clinical practicalities and conceptual discussion
* Serves as a major source for use in the training of psychiatric residents and mental health personnel as well as students of behavior science in the areas of culture and mental health
* A total of 50 chapters with detailed cross-referencing
* Nearly 2000 references plus an appendix of almost 400 books
* 130 tables and figures
Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 350
Publication Date: 2003-10-16
Sales Rank: 840382
ISBN / ASIN: 0126789576
EAN: 9780126789577
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
This book stands as the first unified overview of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying higher-order learning and memory. It integrates modern discoveries concerning learning and memory disorders such as mental retardation syndromes and Alzheimer's Disease, while also emphasizing the results gained from the cutting-edge research methodologies of genetic engineering, complex behavioral characterization, proteomics, and molecular biology. This book provides a foundation of experimental design that will be useful to all students pursuing an interest in laboratory research. This book is an enlightening and invaluable resource for anyone concerned with memory mechanisms.
* Presents a unified view of memory mechanisms from behavior to genes and drawing examples from many different brain regions, types of learning, and various animal model systems
* Includes numerous practical examples for the new investigator on how to implement research program in the area of learning and memory
* Provides a balanced treatment of the strengths and weaknesses in modern experimental design
Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 140
Publication Date: 1998-05-22
Sales Rank: 1818879
ISBN / ASIN: 0415179408
EAN: 9780415179409
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
With more than 1,300 entries, this edition of The Concise Dictionary of Psychology is comprehensive, clear, concise and user-friendly. With extensive cross-referencing to related entries, it includes many additional entries as well as entries from peripheral fields, such as Bibinski reflex, Doppler effect, Little Albert and Murphy's Law. Updated to take account of recent developments in psychology, it is a lean and efficient source of information, written in a straightforward and readable manner.
Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic/Object Relations
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 622
Publication Date: 2002-04-26
Sales Rank: 2334857
ISBN / ASIN: 0471382639
EAN: 9780471382638
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Now available in paperback. In this volume, different approaches to Psychodynamic/Object Relations approaches are examined. It covers the important issues in the field, with topics ranging from "psychodynamic psychotherapy with undergraduate and graduate students" to "a relational feminist psychodynamic approach to ***ual desire" to "psychodynamic/object relations group therapy with shizophrenic patients."
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2004-03-12
Sales Rank: 1944893
ISBN / ASIN: 0470863420
EAN: 9780470863428
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Almost a million people die by suicide every year (WHO estimate)
The sheer numbers have made suicide prevention a major health target, but effective prevention is not straightforward. Suicide is a complex event, more complex than most of us imagine, calling for an equally complex response.
Psychotherapy with Suicidal People provides a multi-component approach, with rich clinical data including many case histories, to guide the reader. Based on decades of research from across the globe, Antoon A. Leenaars takes the reader into the mind of the suicidal person, from the young to the elderly, from the anonymous to the famous. There is no better way to know, and thus to treat, a person.
A plethora of special features makes this volume an international classic and includes:
Reflections of many suicidologists such as Heraclitus, Plato, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim and Edwin Shneidman.
A unique window on the clinical mind of the author.
Empirically supported definition, with applications across age, gender, historical time, as well as culture.
The report of the International Working Group on Ethical and Legal Issues in Suicidology.
Psychotherapy with Suicidal People: A Person-centred Approach is essential reading for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and their trainees, and all clinicians who work with suicidal people.
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Without complete knowledge of a suicidal individual’s circumstances, effective therapy cannot be given. This book takes a person-centered approach to psychotherapy with suicidal people, taking into account the biological, psychological, and sociological contexts that bring them to therapy. Based upon the work of Edwin Shneidman, the author provides detailed descriptions of his own work with suicidal children and *****s from which other clinicians can benefit. Thoughtful and comprehensive, the book covers the complexity of suicide and suggests a template to understand the suicidal person and contains details of psychotherapy with suicidal people, illustrated by a wealth of case studies.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Practical Tried-and-Tested Strategies to Overcome OCD
By Reinhard Merkel, G. Boer, J. Fegert, T. Galert, D. Hartmann, B. Nuttin, S. Rosahl,
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 533
Publication Date: 2007-05
Sales Rank: 2825558
ISBN / ASIN: 354046476X
EAN: 9783540464761
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
The preceding decade has witnessed tremendous progress in clinical as well as theoretical neuroscience. In its wake, powerful new instruments of neuromodulation acting directly on the brain have been developed. However, few areas of scientific development seem to exhibit as close a connection between dreams of progress and nightmares of disaster as contemporary neuroscience. "Mind doping" is a populist slogan at hand, suggesting a deprecatory parallel to the practice of doping in sports.
The present book subjects the whole range of questions associated with these problems to a thorough exploration. Extensive state-of-the-art accounts of the relevant clinical and theoretical neurosciences are followed by an in-depth philosophical analysis of the problems of personal identity and a comprehensive disquisition on legal and ethical questions posed by present and foreseeable future practices of neuroenhancement. A concluding chapter presents the study’s main results as recommendations, addressing clinical practitioners and researchers in the field as well as to politicians, legislators, law courts, philosophers, lawyers, and anybody fascinated by or concerned about the dawning era of intervening in the brain.
By Barbara Fadem
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2001-06-15
Sales Rank: 48445
ISBN / ASIN: 0781730848
EAN: 9780781730846
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Following the best-selling First Edition, this highly acclaimed behavioral science review book is now in its Second Edition. Ideas are presented visually and information is in a concise format, true to the High-Yield™ style. Topics covered include developmental psychology, behavioral genetics, psychopathology and its treatment, substance abuse, human ***uality, and much more.
By Eugene C. Toy, Debra L. Klamen,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 2006-08-16
Sales Rank: 32309
ISBN / ASIN: 0071462821
EAN: 9780071462822
Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2000-05-10
Sales Rank: 43374
ISBN / ASIN: 0312209045
EAN: 9780312209049
Binding: Hardcover
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Tired of being manipulated and taken advantage of? Want to learn how to influence and motivate others, turn associates into friends, and win in any competition? Then consider reading Get Anyone to Do Anything and Never Feel Powerless Again by David J. Lieberman, bestselling author of Never Be Lied to Again and nationally recognized leader in the field of human behavior.
Based on psychological principles, this book is less about manipulation and more about observing and influencing people (including yourself) and learning how to take control of situations. Most of Lieberman's techniques are straightforward, user-friendly, and practical. You'll learn simple ways to make a fantastic first impression, get people to return your phone calls, and stop a rumor before it ruins you. You don't even have to read the text to benefit. To help you get the upper hand quickly, strategies are reviewed at the end of each chapter. While some suggestions are obvious (smile and make eye contact), the five sections and 40 chapters contain many gems that can help improve your life. --
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The Case Study Guide to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy of Psychosis
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Number Of Pages: 252
Publication Date: 2002-12-06
Sales Rank: 2716004
ISBN / ASIN: 0471498602
EAN: 9780471498605
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
This is a practical volume which reflects how treatment programmes can be compatible with the reality of service delivery and mental health provision in an organisational context. It also supports both training and clinical practice by presenting examples of clinical cases to illustrate the assessment, treatment planning and implementation processes of CBT for psychosis.
· Based on extensive clinical experience and real life service settings
· Deals with the roles of several mental health disciplines, as they combine in the these treatment programmes
· Cases from a variety of settings: inpatient, outpatient community
· Describes techniques used with the full range of symptoms
Part of the Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology
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"Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is radically changing the way people manage problems in their lives and has a profoundly positive effect on job satisfaction for mental health workers. The Case Study Guide to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy of Psychosis is written by practitioners from differing clinical backgrounds and at different stages in their use of CBT. It provides vibrant and colourful descriptions of patient and therapist problems and the use of various techniques with them. Although founded in theory and research, the focus is on the practical use of CBT with patients whose symptom types will be recognisable instantly to mental health workers world-wide. There is a brief description of therapeutic methods at the start followed by the collection of case studies. At the end, a training, supervision and implementation section enables practitioners to move from contemplation to adoption of these remarkable developments in their own practice and service. Trainees on courses in psychosocial interventions e.g THORN and CBT courses, and professional trainees e.g those on Clinical Psychology, Mental Nurse and Psychiatry courses will find this book an essential resource and fascinating read. Mental health workers in mental health teams and services will also find the book of major importance to their work, and it will be of considerable interest to voluntary service workers in mental health charities. "
By Michael H. Ebert, Peter T. Loosen, Barry Nurcombe,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: 2000-03-20
Sales Rank: 301032
ISBN / ASIN: 0838514626
EAN: 9780838514627
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A convenient, up-to-date, time-saving reference for the diagnosis, psychopharmacologic treatment, and psychotherapeutic management of the full range of psychiatric disorders. Includes a highly useful separate section devoted to psychiatric disorders occurring in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Extensive Index and detailed Table of Contents afford easy access to material.
By Raymond DiGiuseppe, Raymond Chip Tafrate,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2006-08-14
Sales Rank: 761906
ISBN / ASIN: 0195170792
EAN: 9780195170795
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Since classical times, philosophers and physicians have identified anger as a human frailty that can lead to violence and human suffering, but with the development of a modern science of abnormal psychology and mental disorders, it has been written off as merely an emotional symptom and
excluded from most accepted systems of psychiatric diagnosis. Yet despite the lack of scientific recognition, anger-related violence is often in the news, and courts are increasingly mandating anger management treatment. It is time for a fresh scientific examination of one of the most fundamental
human emotions and what happens when it becomes pathological, and this thorough, persuasive book offers precisely such a probing analysis.
Using both clinical data and a variety of case studies, esteemed anger researchers Raymond A. DiGiuseppe and Raymond Chip Tafrate argue for a new diagnostic classification, Anger Regulation and Expression Disorder, that will help bring about clinical improvements and increased scientific
understanding of anger. After situating anger in both historical and emotional contexts, they report research that supports the existence of several subtypes of the disorder and review treatment outcome studies and new interventions to improve treatment. The first book that fully explores anger as a
clinical phenomenon and provides a reliable set of assessment criteria, it represents a major step toward establishing the clear definitions and scientific basis necessary for assessing, diagnosing, and treating anger disorders.
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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 948
Publication Date: 2001-05
Sales Rank: 53945
ISBN / ASIN: 030646490X
EAN: 9780306464904
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
The third edition of Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology provides in-depth coverage of theoretical, research, and clinical positions in psychopathology.
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition
Outlines a highly improved classification scheme based on the DSM IV;
Includes two new chapters on schizophrenia that reflect renewed interest in this topic;
Puts new emphasis on cultural and developmental issues;
Contains increased coverage of the overlap of medicine and abnormal behavior. £/LIST£ Furnishing both empirical and research data useful to graduate students and practicing clinicians in the mental health profession, particularly clinical psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric nursing, and social work, this handbook is an ideal reference source.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 438
Publication Date: 1992-03-11
Sales Rank: 1778296
ISBN / ASIN: 0195069218
EAN: 9780195069211
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
This book brings together an internationally respected group of researchers for the purpose of examining neuroplasticity, a topic of immense current interest in psychology, neuroscience, neuropsychology, and clinical neurology. The chapters represent state-of-the-art work on neuroplasticity at all levels: behavioral, neural, and molecular. They describe recent work on memory ranging from cellular morphological studies in invertebrates to research on the human brain made possible by new advances in neuroimaging technology. The book begins with an introductory chapter that considers the psychology of memory at the global, structural level. The remainder of the volume is divided into three related parts. The first focuses on recent approaches, which are based in part on new technology, that aim to measure and describe activity in relatively large populations of neurons. The second focuses on memory at the level of brain systems. One major theme to emerge from work at this level is that memory is composed of multiple, separable components that can be identified with specific anatomical structures and connections. The third part of the book focuses on molecular and cellular studies that show how individual neurons and their synapses behave in a history-dependent manner. This research concerns both brief changes in synaptic plasticity as well as more lasting changes in connectivity, which depend on altered gene expression and morphological growth and change. Altogether, the chapters provide a rich summary of the breadth and excitement of contemporary research on the biology of memory.
By Michael H. Ebert, Peter T. Loosen, Barry Nurcombe,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: 2000-03-20
Sales Rank: 301032
ISBN / ASIN: 0838514626
EAN: 9780838514627
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
A convenient, up-to-date, time-saving reference for the diagnosis, psychopharmacologic treatment, and psychotherapeutic management of the full range of psychiatric disorders. Includes a highly useful separate section devoted to psychiatric disorders occurring in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Extensive Index and detailed Table of Contents afford easy access to material.
By Ruth K Westheimer, Sanford Lopater,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 768
Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Sales Rank: 55984
ISBN / ASIN: 0781760763
EAN: 9780781760768
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Westheimer and Lopater’s Human ***uality, Second Edition now includes bonus online faculty support and tutoring services powered by Smarthinking™. Instructors and students can log on and post questions, which will be answered within 24 hours by an experienced human ***uality educator. Instructors can get advice on topics such as lesson plans, how to present difficult topics, test questions, learning activities and more. Students can get personal tutoring and instruction to help them grasp difficult concepts.
Additional free instructor and student ancillaries are available. Visit http://connection.LWW.com/go/***uality for more information.
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Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 500
Publication Date: 2003-11-01
Sales Rank: 23508
ISBN / ASIN: 0781736692
EAN: 9780781736695
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Behavioral Science in Medicine is intended as a primary textbook for the behavioral science/psychiatry course in the first two years of medical school. Each chapter includes representative clinical case scenarios illustrating important facets of the material in that chapter. All material presented in the text will be consistent with the DSM-IV-TR.
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Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: 2005-04-14
Sales Rank: 1957976
ISBN / ASIN: 0824758269
EAN: 9780824758264
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Offering an authoritative collection of chapters from clinicians and researchers in the United States, Canada, and Europe, this reference comprehensively covers the latest understanding in the etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of ***ual dysfunction.
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By Richard Lawrence Miller
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Number Of Pages: 504
Publication Date: 2002-12-30
Sales Rank: 1477931
ISBN / ASIN: 0313318077
EAN: 9780313318078
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
This comprehensive reference guide describes more than 130 alphabetically arranged drugs of abuse, including both pharmaceutical and natural products. The book begins with a discussion of federal drug scheduling and drug categories. Individual entries for particular substances of abuse follow. Drug descriptions include: correct pronunciation, nicknames or street names, legal status, historical and present uses and misuses, abuse factors, interactions with other drugs, and findings of cancer risks and birth defects. Scientific information is presented in a clear, simple manner designed for students and general readers alike. In addition to the A-Z descriptions, Miller provides an explanation of general drug types, such as stimulants and hallucinogens, as well as the aspects of drug abuse, including tolerance and withdrawal. A list of print and electronic sources is also included for readers seeking further information.
Encyclopedia of Addictive Drugs
Richard Lawrence Miller
ISBN: 0-313-31807-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31807-8
DOI: 10.1336/0313318077
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Hooked on Heroin: Drugs and Drifters in a Globalized World
By Philip Lalander, Aisling O'Neill,
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2004-04-17
Sales Rank: 1920240
ISBN / ASIN: 1859737676
EAN: 9781859737675
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Alarmingly, heroin is growing in popularity amongst young people. This is despite the fact that it is - more than any other drug - associated with failure, death, misery and poverty. This book explores why people are tempted by heroin and how globalization has played a key role in increasing the number of abusers.
Rather than offer lofty and abstract theories on addiction, the author grounds his study firmly in the day-to-day lives of heroin users themselves. Norrköping in Sweden is a mid-sized former industrial city like countless others throughout the world. It has suffered high unemployment as a result of its rapid decline as a hub of commerce. Once well known for housing the giant telecommunications company Ericsson, it sadly gains more notoriety today through its associations with heroin, which continues to be the drug of choice for Norrköping’s young people. Through privileged access to users themselves, Lalander is able to show us the real motivations and lifestyle choices behind addiction. Personal testimonies candidly expose the underground activities of a thriving subculture and spark vexing questions as to why these young people choose to flirt with fatality. What media representations influence heroin users? Is this phenomenon the inevitable by-product of modern life? What are the root causes at play?
Lalander’s in-depth investigation overturns many of the stereotypes associated with heroin use. Accessible and gripping, Hooked on Heroin brings a disturbing reality closer to home and shows how global and local practices are intimately linked.
By Shakti Gawain
Publisher: New World Library
Number Of Pages: 191
Publication Date: 1995-04
Sales Rank: 188966
ISBN / ASIN: 1880032627
EAN: 9781880032626
Binding: Hardcover
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When it comes to creating the life you want, Shakti Gawain literally wrote the book. Now considered a classic, Creative Visualization teaches readers how to use their imaginations to manifest their deepest desires. In a straight-talking narrative, Gawain uses the first part to cover the basics, with chapters such as "How to Visualize," "Affirmations," and "Creative Visualization Only Works for the Good." Once she shows readers how visualization actually works, Gawain moves on to loftier discussions, such as "Contacting Your Higher Self," "Meeting Your Guide," "Setting Goals," and "Treasure Maps."
Fear not; this isn't a spiritual-lightweight book for people with a severe case of the "gimmes." Gawain has her priorities in the right place, and she cautions readers that creative visualization will not serve greed or shallow-minded thinking. For example, she discourages the cycle of trying to have more money, so you can do what you want in life, so you will be happier. "The way it actually works is the reverse," she explains. "You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." Yet she also writes an excellent chapter on letting go of the misguided guilt that inhibits readers from becoming truly prosperous. --Gail
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By Alan Cohen
Publisher: Bantam
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2005-11-29
Sales Rank: 53548
ISBN / ASIN: 0553383620
EAN: 9780553383621
Book Description:
The in-your-face, no-hype guide to getting happy…
Your life sucks if…
• You routinely make someone or something more important than you
• The life you are living on the outside doesn’t match who you are on the inside
• You say yes when you mean no
• You try to fix other people
• You’ve forgotten to enjoy the ride
When your life sucks, it’s a wake-up call. Now self-help guru and bestselling author Alan Cohen invites you to answer that call, change your course, and enjoy the life you were meant to live. In ten compelling chapters, Cohen shows you how to stop wasting your energy on people and things that deaden you–and use it for things you love.
With great humor, great examples, and exhilarating directness, Why Your Life Sucks doesn’t just spell out the ways in which you undermine your power, purpose, and creativity–it shows you how to reverse the damage. Here is an encouraging but loud-and-clear reminder that in every moment we generate our own experience by the choices we make, and that today is the best day to begin your new life.
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By Donald E. Super, Charles Super,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 2001-03-31
Sales Rank: 129334
ISBN / ASIN: 0658010530
EAN: 9780658010538
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Opportunities in Psychology Careers offers job seekers essential information about a variety of careers in the field of psychology. The book includes training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources.
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Opportunities in Psychology Careers offers job seekers essential information about a variety of careers in the field of psychology. The book includes training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 412
Publication Date: 1997-03-26
Sales Rank: 1942427
ISBN / ASIN: 0195103343
EAN: 9780195103342
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
The basic idea of the particular way of understanding mental phenomena that has inspired the "cognitive revolution" is that, as a result of certain relatively recent intellectual and technological innovations, informed theorists now possess a more powerfully insightful comparison or model for mind than was available to any thinkers in the past. The model in question is that of software, or the list of rules for input, output, and internal transformations by which we determine and control the workings of a computing machine's hardware. Although this comparison and its many implications have dominated work in the philosophy, psychology, and neurobiology of mind since the end of the Second World War, it now shows increasing signs of losing its once virtually unquestioned preeminence. Thus we now face the question of whether it is possible to repair and save this model by means of relatively inessential "tinkering", or whether we must reconceive it fundamentally and replace it with something different. In this book, twenty-eight leading scholars from diverse fields of "cognitive science"-linguistics, psychology, neurophysiology, and philosophy- present their latest, carefully considered judgements about what they think will be the future course of this intellectual movement, that in many respects has been a watershed in our contemporary struggles to comprehend that which is crucially significant about human beings. Jerome Bruner, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Boden, Ulric Neisser, Rom Harre, Merlin Donald, among others, have all written chapters in a non-technical style that can be enjoyed and understood by an inter-disciplinary audience of psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, linguists, and cognitive scientists alike.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2005-01-25
Sales Rank: 1781314
ISBN / ASIN: 0199264333
EAN: 9780199264339
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
The notions of 'function', 'feature' and 'functional feature' are associated with relatively new developments and insights in several areas of cognition. This book brings together different definitions, insights and research related to defining these notions from such diverse areas as language, perception, categorization and development. Each of the contributors in this book explicitly defines the notion of 'function', 'feature' or 'functional feature' within their own theoretical framework, presents research in which such a notion plays a pivotal role, and discusses the contribution of functional features in relation to their insights in a particular area of cognition. As such, this book not only presents new developments devoted to defining 'function', 'feature' and 'functional feature' in several sub-disciplines of cognitive science, but also offers a focused account of how these notions operate within the cognitive interface linking language and spatial representation. All book chapters are accessible for the interested novice, and offer the specialized researcher new empirical and theoretical insights into defining function, both with respect to the language and space interface and across cognition. The introduction to the book presents the reader with the main issues and viewpoints that are discussed in more detail in each of the book chapters.
Hughes' Outline of Modern Psychiatry
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By David Gill
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 2007-06-15
Sales Rank: 1601648
ISBN / ASIN: 0470033924
Book Description:
Hughes' Outline of Psychiatry, Fifth Edition presents a comprehensive account of current practice in psychiatry, summarising up-to-date knowledge of the subject in a concise way.
Part I touches on general classification, causes and prevention of mental disorders. It also outlines the basics of the psychiatric interview, examination and investigation. Part II gives an overview of the most common clinical syndromes, covering frequency, epidemiology, causes, clinical features, clinical types, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis and treatment for each disorder. Part III focuses on all different treatment options, from Psychological Treatment to Psychosurgery.
Fully up-to-date in respect to drugs and treatments, classification systems, and recent legal developments
Concentrates on practical clinical techniques rather than psychiatric theory
Includes plenty of case studies
Format ideal for quick reference or revision
This new edition of a well-established and well-received book is an invaluable textbook for medical and psychology students, trainees and psychologists. It is also a helpful resource for mental health nurses, professionals working in health service management and occupational therapy, general practitioners, and other non-specialists who need grounding in all practical aspects of mental health care.
From the reviews of the previous edition:
“The chapters are well structured, maintaining a balance between remaining comprehensive and interesting. The addition of illustrative case histories is welcome… a highly recommended text” JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY
“…very easy to read and the general layout is excellent… useful as a quick summary…” THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
By Robert Anton Wilson
Publisher: New Falcon Publications
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 1990-06
Sales Rank: 23421
ISBN / ASIN: 1561840718
EAN: 9781561840717
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Throughout human history, thoughts, values and behaviors have been colored by language and the prevailing view of the universe. With the advent of Quantum Mechanics, relativity, non-Euclidean geometries, non-Aristotelian logic and General Semantics, the scientific view of the world has changed dramatically from just a few decades ago. Nonetheless, human thinking is still deeply rooted in the cosmology of the middle ages. Quantum Psychology is the book to change your way of perceiving yourself --- and the universe. Some say it's materialistic, others call it scientific and still others insist it's mystical. It is all of these --- and none. The book for the 21st Century, complete with exercises. Picks up where Prometheus Rising left off. Some say it's materialistic, others call it scientific and still others insist it's mystical. It is all of these --- and none. Second Revised Edition
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John F. Schumaker
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2001-09
Sales Rank: 1724660
ISBN / ASIN: 0275970523
EAN: 9780275970529
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
The often misunderstood "modern person syndrome" is a disorder linked to the conditions of living in our contemporary society. The author argues that the conditions of modernity have introduced new processes, forces, and cultural motivations that have major implications for all aspects of mental health and social well being. While modernity offers unprecedented opportunities for personal enhancement and creative expression, there is mounting evidence of a mental health crisis that demands the immediate attention of mental health professionals. In order to address the new challenges that have arisen under conditions of modernity, mental health professionals must rethink fundamental assumptions about the relationship between society and mental health, as well as the impact of modern social concerns upon individual behavior and psychological well being. This innovative approach to mental health seeks to explain a variety of psychological trends, including the steep rise in depression, the sharp increase in the prevalence of existential disorders, and the emergence of consumption disorders. By shedding light on the interaction between modernity and mental health, Schumaker illuminates the emerging patterns of mental disturbance while also offering new and more effective intervention and prevention strategies.
By Paul Thagard
Publisher: The MIT Press
Number Of Pages: 278
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Sales Rank: 125162
ISBN / ASIN: 026270109X
EAN: 9780262701099
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Cognitive science approaches the study of mind and intelligence from an interdisciplinary perspective, working at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. With Mind, Paul Thagard offers an introduction to this interdisciplinary field for readers who come to the subject with very different backgrounds. It is suitable for classroom use by students with interests ranging from computer science and engineering to psychology and philosophy.
Thagard's systematic descriptions and evaluations of the main theories of mental representation advanced by cognitive scientists allow students to see that there are many complementary approaches to the investigation of mind. The fundamental theoretical perspectives he describes include logic, rules, concepts, analogies, images, and connections (artificial neural networks). The discussion of these theories provides an integrated view of the different achievements of the various fields of cognitive science.
This second edition includes substantial revision and new material. Part I, which presents the different theoretical approaches, has been updated in light of recent work the field. Part II, which treats extensions to cognitive science, has been thoroughly revised, with new chapters added on brains, emotions, and consciousness. Other additions include a list of relevant Web sites at the end of each chapter and a glossary at the end of the book. As in the first edition, each chapter concludes with a summary and suggestions for further reading.
Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, 2006
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 910
Publication Date: 2006-08-14
Sales Rank: 600770
ISBN / ASIN: 0198526954
EAN: 9780198526957
Binding: Paperback
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Mental health research and care in the twenty first century faces a series of conceptual and ethical challenges arising from unprecedented advances in the neurosciences, combined with radical cultural and organisational change. The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry is aimed at all those responding to these challenges, from professionals in health and social care, managers, lawyers and policy makers; service users, informal carers and others in the voluntary sector; through to philosophers, neuroscientists and clinical researchers. Organised around a series of case studies in five key topic areas - concepts of disorder, the philosophical history of psychopathology, philosophy of science, ethics and philosophical value theory, and philosophy of mind - the book provides a detailed introduction to the field and a framework for study and skill development. Each case study is supported by selected readings from both philosophy and mental health, thinking skills exercises, self-test questions, key learning points and detailed guides to further reading. There is an introduction for philosophers to classification and descriptive psychopathology, and for practitioners to philosophical methods (including logic). The philosophical topics covered include philosophical methods (analytic and Continental); phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism, logical empiricism and its successors; idealism and realism; reasons and causes; and modern theories of mind and brain, free will and personal identity. Topics from mental health include psychiatry and 'anti-psychiatry'; Jaspers' psychopathology and the new neurosciences; the future of psychiatric classifications; strengths-based approaches, recovery practice, social inclusion and diversity; and key topics in psychopathology, such as delusion, autism, disorders of volition, thought insertion and other experiences in schizophrenia. The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry aims to secure the skills-base of the discipline by bringing philosophers closer to the realities of practice in mental health, and mental health practitioners closer to the resources of philosophy as a partner to the sciences in responding to the challenges of twenty-first century mental health and social care.
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Promoting Self-Change from Addictive Behaviors: Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention, and Treatment
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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 260
Publication Date: 2007-08-10
Sales Rank: 1656843
ISBN / ASIN: 0387712860
EAN: 9780387712864
Binding: Hardcover
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Many are addicted. Few are treated. Yet many who are not treated recover. Promoting Self-Change from Addictive Behaviors examines natural recovery as a clinical phenomenon, a field of inquiry, and a vital component of therapy. It also brings clinicians and counselors to a new understanding of addiction and recovery.
One of the few books on the topic, this updated edition offers alternatives to disease models of addiction by exploring personal pathways to recovery. Focusing on alcohol and drug problems, it provides a literature review of 40 years of studies on self-change with particular emphasis on the current decade and methodological issues (starting with how much or how little treatment constitutes “treatment”). The 24 experts keep the coverage consistently readable, and dozens of brief narratives from individuals who have successfully recovered from an addictive behavior without formal help lend valuable personal perspectives.
More of the book’s key features: Core factors in self-change, from cognitive processes to social issues; Case examples of natural recovery from smoking, binge eating, problem gambling, and criminal behavior; Redefining the role of treatment in changing addictive behaviors; Cross-cultural, community, and prevention perspectives on promoting self-change; “Self-change toolbox” chapter offering assessment tools, recovery strategies, web links, and other online resources.
With Promoting Self-Change from Addictive Behaviors, health care professionals and researchers (from psychologists and social workers to nurses, sociologists, and physicians) can find more effective methods to fit client needs, and develop new insights into the recovery process. Public health workers and policymakers will also find informative strategies for tapping this rich therapeutic resource.
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Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality
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By Laurence Tancredi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2005-09-19
Sales Rank: 100106
ISBN / ASIN: 0521860016
EAN: 9780521860017
Binding: Hardcover
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In many areas of modern life rapid developments in science are overwhelming established norms. Brain biology, through DNA testing and advanced brain imaging techniques, has given medical scientists new insights into the functioning of the human mind. This erosion of long-standing beliefs has many implications for understanding and treating what society considers to be aberrant or immoral behavior. What medical science is indicating is that the focus of our emphasis on mental processes--particularly free will and intentionality--is shifting to recognition of the important role the physical brain plays on human thought and behavior. In Hardwired Behavior the author argues that social morality begins in the brain, for without the brain there would be no concept of morality. Individual responsibility, therefore, must be reconsidered in the light of biological brain processes. The question of whether new scientific findings destroy the relevance of free will, placing it in the context of biological forces that may operate outside the conscious control of the actor, is one of intense debate. Hardwired Behavior takes this question and moves it into the open by clearly detailing neuroscience discoveries and explaining how the ancient precepts of "morality" that have guided mankind throughout its history must now be seen through the new lens of brain biology.
How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now
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Title: How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now (Science Masters)
Authors: William H. Calvin
Publisher: Basic Books; 1st ed edition (September 1996)
Hardcover: 184 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 0465072771
List Price: $15.00 (paperback)
Amazon Sales Rank: #902,070
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William Calvin, a neurophysiologist and author of The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain, attempts to reclaim the study of human consciousness from physicists like Roger Penrose. Physicists, Calvin suggests, reduce the mind to subatomic particles and mathematical equations, whereas those in his specialty see the seat of consciousness and intelligence in higher levels of brain physiology--the neurons, synapses, and cortex. Calvin is a Darwinist who regards the unique level of human consciousness as the product of evolutionary forces that began with the ice ages two million years ago. The human response to this natural threat, he argues, was to develop mental faculties that allowed high-level communication and, thus, cooperation, leading to complex language capabilities and the distinguishing human characteristic of abstract thought.
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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 500
Publication Date: 2007-06
Sales Rank: 830129
ISBN / ASIN: 3540714626
EAN: 9783540714620
Binding: Hardcover
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Our contemporary understanding of brain function is deeply rooted in the ideas of the nonlinear dynamics of distributed networks. Cognition and motor coordination seem to arise from the interactions of local neuronal networks, which themselves are connected in large scales across the entire brain. The spatial architectures between various scales inevitably influence the dynamics of the brain and thereby its function. But how can we integrate brain connectivity amongst these structural and functional domains?
Our Handbook provides an account of the current knowledge on the measurement, analysis and theory of the anatomical and functional connectivity of the brain. All contributors are leading experts in various fields concerning structural and functional brain connectivity. In the first part of the Handbook, the chapters focus on an introduction and discussion of the principles underlying connected neural systems. The second part introduces the currently available non-invasive technologies for measuring structural and functional connectivity in the brain. Part three provides an overview of the analysis techniques currently available and highlights new developments. Part four introduces the application and translation of the concepts of brain connectivity to behavior, cognition and the clinical domain.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 314
Publication Date: 2000-12-30
Sales Rank: 449331
ISBN / ASIN: 0195130634
EAN: 9780195130638
Binding: Hardcover
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This book brings together the research of a number of scholars in the field of knowledge creation and imparts a sense of order to the field. The chapters share three characteristics: they are all grounded in extensive qualitative and/or quantitative research; they all go beyond the mere description of the knowledge-creation process and offer both theoretical and strategic implications; they share a view of knowledge creation and knowledge transfer as delicate processes, necessitating particular forms of support from managers.
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Deep Learning: Enhance Memory & Concentration [Audio Book
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Publisher: Brain Sync
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Publication Date: 1995-04-01
Sales Rank: 106521
ISBN / ASIN: 1881451925
EAN: 9781881451921
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Improve memory & concentration Absorb, retain, and recall information Expand awareness and increase creativity Do you ever wonder why as children we learn more in our first few years of life? The answer lies in the mysterious and elusive Theta brain wave state. Up until the age of six, children are predominantly in Theta. This frequency allows the brain to absorb and retain massive amounts of information that gets stored in long-term memory. You can restore this magical ability through daily Theta brain wave training. When you need to study and assimilate new information, slip on your headphones, relax and listen to Deep Learning. Within minutes, memory receptors are gently stimulated as precision-engineered frequencies shift your brain into perfect balance. In this state of heightened receptivity, the clarity and speed with which you can concentrate, study, and integrate and store information is profoundly improved. Theta brain waves are associated with long-term-potentiation. Use Deep Learning For: Super learning Receiving inner direction and insights Self-hypnosis Behavior modification Improving Memory Instructions for listening: Listen to this program daily for either thirty or sixty minutes a day to train your brain to develop more Theta activity. Regular use will enhance overall mental performance. Here are three ways to use Deep Learning. Experiment to explore which way works best for you and your needs. 1. Thirty minutes before studying, lie down, close your eyes and listen to Deep Learning. This will prepare your brain for absorbing new information. 2. Or, listen to Deep Learning while you study. 3. Listen to Deep Learning to relax, unwind or meditate. After regular use you ll notice a dramatic increase in your ability to retain and retrieve information. What You Can Expect: Increased creativity Improved memory Enhanced ability to focus and concentrate Greater clarity of thought Expanded awareness
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 188
Publication Date: 2002-07-15
Sales Rank: 867392
ISBN / ASIN: 0521001838
EAN: 9780521001830
Binding: Paperback
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Individuals affected with Asperger Syndrome are often misunderstood and sometimes misdiagnosed when they apply for help. A Guide to Asperger Syndrome is an accessible handbook for all those touched by Asperger syndrome, one of the most common variants of disorders in the so-called autism spectrum. Christopher Gillberg, a world-renowned authority in the field, gives an in-depth account of symptoms, diagnosis, prevalence, background factors, prognosis, and intervention. This book is intended for a wide readership, including those affected, their families, and clinicians working with children, adolescents and *****s with Asperger syndrome.
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Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder, usually with life-long consequences for social interaction and behaviour. The disorder is neurodevelopmental and symptoms appear in the preschool years. Individuals affected are often misunderstood and sometimes misdiagnosed when they apply for help. A Guide to Asperger Syndrome is an accessible handbook for all those touched by Asperger syndrome, one of the most common variants of disorders in the so-called autism spectrum. In it, Christopher Gillberg, a world-renowned authority in the field, gives an in-depth account of symptoms, diagnosis, prevalence, background factors, prognosis and intervention. The book is intended for a wide readership, including those affected, their families, and clinicians working with children, adolescents and *****s with Asperger syndrome.
By Rama Prasad
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Number Of Pages: 260
Publication Date: 1997-03
Sales Rank: 747420
ISBN / ASIN: 1564598039
EAN: 9781564598035
Binding: Paperback
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1894. Introduction by GRS Mead. This is the most important book on breathing that you can read! Contents: The Tattvas; Evolution; the Mutual Relation of the Tattvas and of the Principles; Prana; The Mind; the Cosmic Picture Gallery; The Manifestations of Psychic Force; Yoga-The Soul; The Spirit; The Science of Breath; Glossary.
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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2007-09-07
Sales Rank: 1082535
ISBN / ASIN: 0387691685
EAN: 9780387691688
Binding: Paperback
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Crime prevention should be rational and should be based on the best possible evidence. Decision-makers should weigh heavily any available evidence on what works best. How can a program that has produced no discernable evidence of effectiveness, as shown through numerous evaluations, be considered for implementation? Unfortunately, this happens all the time. Evidence-based crime prevention attempts to overcome this and other obstacles by ensuring that the best available evidence is considered in any decision to implement a program designed to prevent crime. This book is about evidence-based crime prevention.
A project of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, Preventing Crime brings together the leading scientific evidence on what works best for a wide range of interventions organized around four important domains in criminology: at-risk children, offenders, victims, and places. It is the first book to assess the effectiveness of criminological interventions using the most rigorous review methodology of the systematic review. It is an indispensable guide to the leading scientific evidence on what works best to prevent crime.
By Harry D. Kitson
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Number Of Pages: 100
Publication Date: 2004-06-30
Sales Rank: 2056148
ISBN / ASIN: 1419124854
EAN: 9781419124853
Binding: Paperback
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How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study.
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Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 7th Edition (2 Volume Set
By Benjamin J Sadock, Virginia A Sadock,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 3344
Publication Date: 2000-01-15
Sales Rank: 562293
ISBN / ASIN: 0683301284
EAN: 9780683301281
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Throughout six prior editions,"CTP" has defined the field of psychiatry. Every edition has garnered accolades from the highest levels of psychiatry, and established the text as the authoritative "Bible" for the specialty. A new, modern design and added color are just two of the many improvements and updates in the Seventh Edition of this landmark text. Carefully edited to include definitions and diagnostic criteria of mental disorders used in ICD-10, the Seventh Edition features approximately 260 new contributors and section editors, and 75 new chapter sections. A wealth of new information and updated coverage makes the Seventh Edition an essential cornerstone for every psychiatric practice.
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By Benjamin J Sadock, Virginia A Sadock,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 4480
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
Sales Rank: 108974
ISBN / ASIN: 0781734347
EAN: 9780781734349
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Average Rating: 4.5
Total Reviews: 8
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Throughout seven prior editions, “CTP” has defined the field of psychiatry. Every edition has garnered accolades from the highest levels of psychiatry, and established the text as the authoritative text for the specialty. Carefully edited to include definitions and diagnostic criteria of mental disorders used in ICD-10 and the DSM-IV-TR, the Eighth Edition features approximately 450 contributors and section editors. A wealth of new information and updated coverage makes the Eighth Edition an essential cornerstone for every psychiatric practice. New information includes information on post-traumatic stress disorder after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and updated information on the many new psychotropic drugs
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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 471
Publication Date: 2007-01-08
Sales Rank: 592494
ISBN / ASIN: 038736319X
EAN: 9780387363196
Binding: Hardcover
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While mental health figured prominently in the writings of classical sociologists, contemporary sociologists often view research on mental health as peripheral to the "real work" of the discipline. The essays in this volume reassert the centrality of research in mental health to sociology. First, they articulate the contributions that mental health research has made and can make to resolving key theoretical and empirical debates in important areas of sociological study. Second, they draw from mainstream theories and concepts to reconsider the potential of sociology to provide answers to critical questions regarding the social origins of and social responses to mental illness. As reflected in the title, the sociological study of mental health provides a reflection of the central processes that characterize our society.
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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 562
Publication Date: 2005-03-18
Sales Rank: 1988210
ISBN / ASIN: 0470094265
EAN: 9780470094266
Binding: Hardcover
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Written by an outstanding team of internationally recognised experts, this practical textbook is based on the European Certificate in Anxiety and Mood Disorders.
It provides a thorough overview of diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders and analyses the most recent developments and scientific evidence.
Covers the most important clinical topics in the field, including symptomatology, natural course and diagnosis
Treatment strategies are reviewed in the light of all available empirical evidence
Outstanding list of international contributors
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"Written by an outstanding team of internationally recognised experts, this practical textbook is based on the European Certificate in Anxiety and Mood Disorders.
It provides a thorough overview of diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders and analyses the most recent developments and scientific evidence.
Covers the most important clinical topics in the field, including symptomatology, natural course and diagnosis
Treatment strategies are reviewed in the light of all available empirical evidence
Outstanding list of international contributors
By Benjamin J Sadock, Virginia A Sadock,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 1472
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Sales Rank: 1399
ISBN / ASIN: 078177327X
EAN: 9780781773270
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
The best-selling general psychiatry text since 1972, Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry is now in its thoroughly updated Tenth Edition. This complete, concise overview of the entire field of psychiatry is a staple board review text for psychiatry residents and is popular with a broad range of students in medicine, clinical psychology, social work, nursing, and occupational therapy, as well as practitioners in all these areas. The book is DSM-IV-TR compatible and replete with case studies and tables, including ICD-10 diagnostic coding tables. You will also receive access to the complete, fully searchable online text, an online test bank of approximately 100 multiple-choice questions and full answers, and an online image bank at www.synopsisofpsychiatry.com.
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Publisher: Scribner
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: 2001-06-12
Sales Rank: 204094
ISBN / ASIN: 068485466X
EAN: 9780684854663
Binding: Hardcover
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Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, The Noonday Demon forges a long, brambly path through the subject of depression--exposing all the discordant views and "answers" offered by science, philosophy, law, psychology, literature, art, and history. The result is a sprawling and thoroughly engrossing study, brilliantly synthesized by author Andrew Solomon.
Deceptively simple chapter titles (including "Breakdowns," "Treatments," "Addiction," "Suicide") each sit modestly atop a virtual avalanche of Solomon's intellect. This is not a book to be skimmed. But Solomon commands the language--and his topic--with such grace and empathy that the constant flow of references, poems, and quotations in his paragraphs arrive like welcome dinner guests. A longtime sufferer of severe depression himself, Solomon willingly shares his life story with readers. He discusses updated information on various drugs and treatment approaches while detailing his own trials with them. He describes a pharmaceutical company's surreal stage production (involving Pink Floyd, kick dancers, and an opener à la Cats) promoting a new antidepressant to their sales team. He chronicles his research visits to assorted mental institutions, which left him feeling he would "much rather engage with every manner of private despair than spend a protracted time" there. Under Solomon's care, however, such tales offer much more than shock value. They show that depression knows no social boundaries, manifests itself quite differently in each person, and has become political. And, while it may worsen or improve, depression will never be eradicated. Hope lies in finding ways--as Solomon clearly has--to harness its powerful lessons. --Liane Thomas
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With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes the reader on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning.
The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policymakers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has had on various demographic populations around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness.
The depth of human experience Solomon chronicles, the range of his intelligence, and his boundless curiosity and compassion will change the reader's view of the world.
By Francisco Fernandez, Pedro Ruiz,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
Sales Rank: 154784
ISBN / ASIN: 1582557136
EAN: 9781582557137
Binding: Hardcover
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This comprehensive text focuses on psychiatric issues associated with HIV/AIDS and provides clinicians with a basic understanding of epidemiology, virology, transmission, and medical treatments inclusive of occupational exposures. Psychosocial, spiritual, and sociocultural aspects of HIV/AIDS are covered, describing implications of HIV/AIDS across minority groups. The treatment section allows clinicians to organize an effective psychiatric treatment plan for all mental disorders associated with HIV/AIDS. Issues of adherence, prevention, and public well-being are emphasized throughout. The management of medical problems such as delirium, dementia, and pain management in special HIV/AIDS patients with co-morbid substance abuse as well as end of life care is also included.
By Daniel C. Keyes, Jonathan L. Burstein, Richard B. Schwartz, Raymond E. Swienton,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 581
Publication Date: 2004-10-01
Sales Rank: 789095
ISBN / ASIN: 0781749867
EAN: 9780781749862
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
This comprehensive reference provides all the information emergency departments and personnel need to prepare for and respond to terrorist events. The first section covers all agents potentially used in terrorist attacks--chemical, biologic, toxicologic, nuclear, and explosive--in a systematic format that includes background, triage, decontamination, signs and symptoms, medical management, personnel protection, and guidelines for notifying public health networks. Algorithms show when to suspect and how to recognize exposure and detail signs and symptoms and management protocols. The second section focuses on all-hazards preparedness for hospitals, communities, emergency medical services, and the media, and includes an important chapter on simulation of disasters.
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Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 1988
Publication Date: 2002-06
Sales Rank: 2183488
ISBN / ASIN: 0123430100
EAN: 9780123430106
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Psychotherapy is the dialogue between patient and therapist in the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral, crisis, and mental disorders. Psychoanalysis as formulated by Sigmund Freud is the first modern form of psychotherapy and this approach has given rise to several score of psychodynamic therapies.
In more recent times behavioral, cognitive, existential, humanistic, and short-term therapies have been put into practice, each with a particular focus and each giving rise to variations in structure and content of treatment as well as therapeutic outcomes. These therapy approaches relate the patient/therapist dialogue to different aspects of the therapeutic process. For instance, behavior therapies focus on the patient's conduct and cognitive therapies treat the client's thought processes.
The Encyclopedia covers the major psychotherapies currently in practice as well as the classical approaches that laid the foundation for the various contemporary treatment approaches. In addition, the Encyclopedia identifies the scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of the therapies and review the theoretical basis of each therapy.
By Stephen M. Stahl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 601
Publication Date: 2000-07-15
Sales Rank: 1516618
ISBN / ASIN: 0521641543
EAN: 9780521641548
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology has established itself as the preeminent source of education and information in its field. This much expanded second edition enlists advances in neurobiology, and recent clinical developments, to explain with renewed clarity the concepts underlying drug treatment of psychiatric disorders. New neurotransmitter systems, new theories on schizophrenia, clinical advances in antipsychotic and antidepressant therapy, new coverage of attention deficit disorder, sleep disorders and drug abuse, and a new chapter on gender and ***ual psychopharmacology--these are all features of this edition. The fully revised text is complemented by many new illustrations, instructive and entertaining as before, and enhanced to reflect new knowledge and topics covered for the first time. The illustrations and their captions may be used independently of the main text for a rapid introduction to the field or for review, and self-assessment tests follow each chapter. Even more, this will be the essential text for students, scientists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, enabling them to master the complexities of psychopharmacology, and plan sound treatment approaches based on current knowledge. A Teacher's Set of Essential Psychopharmacology, second edition, consists of the hardback book plus a Mac/PC compatible CD-ROM, which contains all the figures from the text in cleverly crafted PowerPoint® presentations in two versions: the complete sequence of more than 500 animated figures from the textbook, and the same images without animation. The CME credit for this book has been expired in April 2006.
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By Aaron T Beck
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Number Of Pages: 388
Publication Date: 1972-01-01
Sales Rank: 611235
ISBN / ASIN: 0812210328
EAN: 9780812210323
Binding: Paperback
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""The principal work on the subject and a valuable source of reference.""--J.R.M. Copeland, M.D., British Journal of Psychiatry Pioneering in its cognitive approach to psychotherapy, this broad survey of all aspects of depression is considered defin
By Carl Auerbach
Publisher: NYU Press
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: 2003-09-01
Sales Rank: 2219115
ISBN / ASIN: 0814706940
EAN: 9780814706947
Binding: Hardcover
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Qualitative Data is meant for the novice researcher who needs guidance on what specifically to do when faced with a sea of information. It takes readers through the qualitative research process, beginning with an examination of the basic philosophy of qualitative research, and ending with planning and carrying out a qualitative research study. It provides an explicit, step-by-step procedure that will take the researcher from the raw text of interview data through data analysis and theory construction to the creation of a publishable work.
The volume provides actual examples based on the authors' own work, including two published pieces in the appendix, so that readers can follow examples for each step of the process, from the project's inception to its finished product. The volume also includes an appendix explaining how to implement these data analysis procedures using NVIVO, a qualitative data analysis program.
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By Denise E. Wilfley, K. Roy MacKenzie, R. Robinson Welch, Virginia E. Ayres, Myrna M. Weissman,
Publisher: Basic Books
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2000-05
Sales Rank: 635636
ISBN / ASIN: 0465095690
EAN: 9780465095698
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Studio: Basic Books
Average Rating: 0
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This is the first-ever application to group therapy of the popular, replicable, time-limited, evidence-based approach initially developed to treat individual depression. Denise Wilfley adapted it in the course of researching the management of eating disorders; her collaborators include a national authority on group work plus an originator of Interpersonal Psychotherapy. Their step-by-step identification of the goals, tasks, and techniques attendant on running normalizing, cost-effective groups makes a real contribution to the clinical repertoire.
By Frank J. Bruno
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2002-08-02
Sales Rank: 761671
ISBN / ASIN: 0471443956
EAN: 9780471443957
Binding: Paperback
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A complete course, from brain biology to abnormal psychology
Hundreds of questions and many review tests
Key concepts and terms defined and explained
Master key concepts. Answer challenging questions. Prepare for exams. Learn at your own pace.
What are the two basic psychological dimensions of emotions? How do you define abnormal behavior? Is extrasensory perception real? What is Viktor Frankl known for? With Psychology: A Self-Teaching Guide, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more.
Frank Bruno explains all the major psychological theories and terms in this book, covering perception, motivation, thinking, personality, sensation, intelligence, research methods, and much more. He presents the foundations of psychology and the biology of behavior; explores how children develop into *****s and the psychological factors that make us individuals; and examines various mental disorders and the types of therapy used to treat them. The step-by-step, Q&A format of Psychology makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview of the topic.
Like the other popular Self-Teaching Guides, Psychology allows you to build gradually on what you have learned-at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for anyone who seeks a greater understanding of human behavior.
Publisher: Sheldon Press
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: 1993-01
Sales Rank: 1673403
ISBN / ASIN: 0859696650
EAN: 9780859696654
Binding: Paperback
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Nina Coltart, «How To Survive As A Psychotherapist»
TIF | 115 Pages | 6,73 Mb (rar archive) | Publisher: Sheldon Press (28 Oct 1993) | English | ISBN: 0859696650
The book is about psychotherapy and the professional life of a psychotherapist. Begins with the concept of vocation, then follows through the psychotherapy training programme, and the setting up of a private practice. Several aspects of the life are then studied in detail, such as consultations and coping with suicidal patients. It also looks at the personal issues involved in being a psychotherapist, such as personal outlook on life.
This book of essays, a few based on lectures to psychotherapy organisations but many newly-written pieces, both light-hearted and serious in its approach, has been collected as a guidebook to the profession. Nina Coltart is a well-known and distinguished Independent psychoanalyst, who was for ten years the Director of the London Clinic of Psycho-Analysis, and a past Vice-President of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. The author herself questions the choice of ‘survival’ as an apt metaphor for the practice of psychotherapy, suggestive as it is of teeth-gritting endurance of major catastrophe. Her transformation of the term from its usual meaning into one that describes positive enjoyment and creativity is a bit laboured, but Nina Coltart's own personality comes through as someone who, much more than simply enduring, has flourished and enjoyed her work and her life. With liveliness, humour and good sense, she has produced a fluent, candid trip through the career of a psychotherapist.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 420
Publication Date: 2004-07-02
Sales Rank: 1290174
ISBN / ASIN: 0195152743
EAN: 9780195152746
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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We live in an aging world. Illnesses that are prevalent and cause significant morbidity and mortality in older people will consume an increasing share of health care resources. One such illness is depression. This illness has a particularly devastating impact in the elderly because it is often undiagnosed or inadequately treated. Depression not only has a profound impact on quality of life but it is associated with an increased risk of mortality from suicide and vascular disease. In fact for every medical illness studied, e.g. heart disease, diabetes, cancer, individuals who are depressed have a worse prognosis. Research has illuminated the physiological and behavioral effects of depression that accounts for these poor outcomes. The deleterious relationship between depression and other illnesses has changed the concept of late-life depression from a "psychiatric disorder" that is diagnosed and treated by a psychiatrist to a common and serious disorder that is the responsibility of all physicians who care for patients over the age of 60. This is the first volume devoted to the epidemiology, phenomenology, psychobiology, treatment and consequences of late-life depression. Although much has been written about depressive disorders, the focus has been primarily on the illness as experienced in younger *****s. The effects of aging on the brain, the physiological and behavioral consequences of recurrent depression, and the impact of other diseases common in the elderly, make late-life depression a distinct entity. There is a compelling need for a separate research program, specialized treatments, and a book dedicated to this disorder. This book will be invaluable to psychiatrists, gerontologists, clinical psychologists, social workers, students, trainees, and others who care for individuals over the age of sixty.
Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2000-11-03
Sales Rank: 2141990
ISBN / ASIN: 0415213002
EAN: 9780415213004
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Routledge
Studio: Routledge
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Psychology and Human Nature problematizes what psychology usually takes for granted-the meaning of the psyche or 'human nature'. The author provides a coherent account of many of the major schools of thought in psychology and its related disciplines, including: sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, radical behaviourism, existentialism, discursive psychology and postmodernism. For each approach he considers the claims or assumptions being made about 'human nature', especially regarding issues of consciousness, the self, the body, other people and the physical world.
Psychology and Human Nature will be essential reading for all students of psychology.
The Psychology Focus series provides students with a new focus on key topic areas in psychology. Each short book presents clear, in-depth coverage of a discrete area with many applied examples: Assumes no prior knowledge of psychology; Has been written by an experienced teacher; Has chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary of key terms.
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Looks at the major schools of psychology and considers the claims or assumptions being made about 'human nature' and their position on the associated issues of consciousness, the self, the body, other people and the physical world.
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By Vivian M. Stevens, Susan K. Redwood, Jackie L. Neel, Richard H. Bost, Nancy W. Van Winkle, Michael H. Pollak
Publisher: Mosby
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2006-11-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0323045715
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780323045711
Binding: Paperback
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