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Substance Abuse Disorders

Evidence and Experience

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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011

Substance abuse disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric disorders and are frequently comorbid with other psychiatric and health conditions and accompanied by social problems; however, they remain under-recognized and under-treated. Many physicians and mental health practitioners receive...
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A Prescription for Psychiatry

Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing

by P. Kinderman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014

This is a manifesto for an entirely new approach to psychiatric care; one that truly offers care rather than coercion, therapy rather than medication, and a return to the common sense appreciation that distress is usually an understandable reaction to life's challenges.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008

This refreshing new work is a practical overview of religious and spiritual issues in psychiatric assessment and treatment. Eleven distinguished contributors assert that everyone has a worldview and that these religious and spiritual variables can be collaborative partners of science, bringing critical...
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Prozac on the Couch

Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs

by Jonathan Michel Metzl
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003

Pills replaced the couch; neuroscience took the place of talk therapy; and as psychoanalysis faded from the scene, so did the castrating mothers and hysteric spinsters of Freudian theory. Or so the story goes. In Prozac on the Couch, psychiatrist Jonathan Michel Metzl boldly challenges recent psychiatric...
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Thomas S. Szasz

The Man and His Ideas

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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

As it entered the 1960s, American institutional psychiatry was thriving, with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961, The Myth of Mental Illness, the psychiatric world was thrown into chaos. Szasz enlightened the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009

When care of younger patients raises thorny legal questions, you need answers you can trust: that's why this book belongs on every clinician's reference shelf. Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health is a timely and authoritative source that covers issues ranging from...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Phenomenology represents a mainstream in the philosophy of subjectivity as well as a rich tradition of inquiry in psychiatry. The conceptual and empirical study of language has become increasingly relevant for psychiatric research and practice. Schizophrenia is still the most enigmatic and most relevant...
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by John Duffy, J. Bryce McLaulin
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The DSM-5 in Perspective

Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel

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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015

Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May 2013 of its fifth edition, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017

The new, third edition of the Clinical Manual of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology has been thoroughly revised, yet its mission remains the same: to keep clinicians up-to-date on the latest research so that they can provide state-of-the-art care to their young patients. To this end, the book...
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by Joel Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013

The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5RG explores all revisions to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, and shows clinicians how they can best apply the strong points and shortcomings of psychiatry's most contentious resource. Written by a celebrated professor of psychiatry,...
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Relational Processes and DSM-V

Neuroscience, Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment

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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007

Seeking to integrate the large volume of clinical research on relational processes and mental health disorders with other scientific advances in psychiatry, Relational Processes and DSM-V builds on exciting advances in clinical research on troubled relationships. These advances included marked improvements...
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Mental Health Uncertainty and Inevitability

Rejuvenating the Relationship between Social Science and Psychiatry

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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

This book offers original knowledge, debate, and understanding from frontline fieldwork data and the relations between mental health difficulties, mental healthcare provision, and social theory. Dominant discourse of the last half century has followed a medical perspective. This has marginalised...
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by Peter Zachar
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014

An exploration of what it means to think about psychiatric disorders as “real,” “true,” and “objective” and the implications for classification and diagnosis. In psychiatry, few question the legitimacy of asking whether a given psychiatric disorder is real; similarly, in psychology,...
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