Psychiatry category: 2250 books
by Thomas A. Ban, W. Horsley Gantt
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Conditioning is one of the core methods of psychiatry. It is a behavioral method, with a stimulus-response constellation. The stimulus itself can be measured, changed, and combined, and the responses can be measured qualitatively and quantitatively. Conditioning uses the conditional reflex phenomenon....
Pathologist of the Mind
Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
During the first half of the twentieth century, Adolf Meyer was the most authoritative and influential psychiatrist in the United States. In 1908, when the Johns Hopkins Hospital established the first American university clinic devoted to psychiatry—still a nascent medical specialty at the time—Meyer...
Implications of Psychopharmacology to Psychiatry
Biological, Nosological, and Therapeutical Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The discovery of chlorpromazine for the specific treatment of schizophrenic symp toms and, later on, of imipramine for the specific treatment of depressive symptoms marked a new milestone in clinical psychiatry and basic neuroscience 40 years ago. The exploration of biochemical mechanisms of action...
Stahl's Self-Assessment Examination in Psychiatry
Multiple Choice Questions for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
This book is for prescribers specializing in psychiatry, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, psychologists and pharmacists. Featuring one hundred and fifty new and updated case-based questions, divided into ten core areas of psychiatry, this collection will help you identify areas in which...
Psychiatry and Religion
Context, Consensus and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The argument of this book is that the divide between psychiatry and religion is an artificial one and that there is much room for understanding the same phenomena from different perspectives. In it thirteen senior mental health professionals and pastoral workers come together to explore what their...
by Michael R. Trimble, Mark George
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Biological psychiatry has dominated psychiatric thinking for the past 40 years, but the knowledge base of the discipline has increased substantially more recently, particularly with advances in genetics and neuroimaging. The third edition of Biological Psychiatry has been thoroughly updated taking...
Psychosomatic Medicine
An Introduction to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Psychosomatic medicine or consultation-liaison psychiatry is the branch of psychiatry that focuses on the mental health issues which accompany, or develop as a result of, other medical disorders. This subdiscipline forms an important part of training in psychiatry. This book provides an ideal first...
by Allan Tasman, Wanda K. Mohr
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Allan Tasman, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, has teamed up with Wanda Mohr, Professor, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, to produce a user-friendly textbook for Psychiatry Residents.
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by Donald W. Black, MD
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
The long-awaited Pocket Guide to Psychiatric Practice is a portable and concise companion to its parent textbook, Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry, Sixth Edition, the preeminent introduction to psychiatry for residents, medical students, and other health professionals. The Pocket Guide is designed...
Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry
How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortunes
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Dr. Joel Paris's Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry takes a much-needed look at the dangerous epidemic of unnecessary or incorrect treatments. The last 30 years of psychiatry have seen the development of a system of classification aimed at establishing greater scientific credibility. Unfortunately, the current...
Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry
The Struggle Against Racism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
'Black and minority ethnic communities lack confidence in mental health services', according to the National Service Framework for Mental Health published by the Department of Health in 1999.
Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry examines how and why this situation has come about,...
by Benjamin J. Sadock, Virginia A. Sadock, Pedro Ruiz
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Kaplan & Sadock's Study Guide and Self-Examination Review in Psychiatry is a comprehensive review of the specialty and perfect for stand-alone review or as preparation for the PRITE in-service, ABPN Part I, and recertification examinations. The book contains more than 1,600 multiple-choice...
by Amit Malik, Clare Oakley
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This pocket guide is a must for all clinical medical students and junior doctors and provides an excellent revision tool in the run-up to exams. It is also perfect for when working on the psychiatric attachment, as it covers many of the conditions encountered on the wards, in clinics, and in general...
Psychiatry in Primary Care
A Concise Canadian Pocket Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Psychiatry in Primary Care: A Concise Canadian Pocket Guide is a comprehensive, practical resource designed to support the work of primary care providers who encounter challenging mental health problems in their daily practices.
Following a “just the pearls” approach, Psychiatry in Primary...