Psychiatry category: 2250 books
Monsters, Demons and Psychopaths
Psychiatry and Horror Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Descriptions of monsters, vampires, demonic possessions, and psychopaths in horror films have been inspired by psychiatric knowledge about mental illness, leading to several stereotyped models of horror that have prevailed through decades. Some scholars have proposed that horror films can be a teaching...
The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies
An Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
With all of the expert-authored content that made previous editions indispensable references for students and practitioners alike, this third edition of The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies: A Practitioner's Guide has been updated to reflect this rapidly changing field.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental disorders affecting children and adolescents. The condition is characterized by a persistent pattern of behavioural symptoms including inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness associated with substantial impairment...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The editor and authors of Youth Substance Abuse and Co-occurring Disorders take an applied approach that serves the needs of clinicians, clinical researchers, and students in the fields of mental health, public health, and medicine (pediatrics, family medicine, and child and adolescent psychiatry,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has evolved greatly since Asperger's day. And as our clinical understanding of this spectrum of disorders has grown, so has recognition of the connections between anxiety disorders and ASD—a welcome development, but also a source of confusion for many...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
As prevalent as anxiety is as a diagnosis, clinically complex cases are even more so. At the same time that it is recognized as a spectrum of disorders with many possibilities for intervention, it is most often seen with variations that further complicate treatment.
The Handbook of Treating...
by Robert D. Goldney
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Suicide claims approximately one million lives worldwide each year, but it is increasingly recognized that there are ways in which some of this loss of life can be prevented. Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library, the second edition of Suicide Prevention places suicide in an historical and contemporaneous...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness.
Why do I feel bad? There is real power in understanding our bad feelings. With his classic Why We Get Sick, Dr. Randolph...
Psychiatric Interviewing E-Book
The Art of Understanding: A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and Other Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
With time at a premium, today's clinicians must rapidly engage their patients while gathering an imposingly large amount of critical information. These clinicians appropriately worry that the "person" beneath the diagnoses will be lost in the shuffle of time constraints, data gathering,...
by Carlos M. Grilo
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Eating disorders refer to a range of problems characterized by abnormal eating behaviours and beliefs about eating, weight, and shape. Eating disorders, which are classified as psychiatric problems, and obesity, which is classified as a general medical condition, reflect a diverse and perplexing array...
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
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This is the first book to establish guidelines and to assist prescribers and therapists in withdrawing their patients from psychiatric drugs, including those patients with long-term exposure to antipsychotic drugs, benzodiazepines, stimulants, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers. It...
Encounters with Wild Children
Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006
Through detailed readings of a wide variety of accounts, debates, and representations, Encounters with Wild Children explores the many different meanings these children were given and the varied responses they elicited. Adriana Benzaquén explains why wild children continue to haunt and fascinate Western...
''Babies Need Mothers''
How Mothers Can Prevent Mental Illness in Their Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Babies Need Mothers How Mothers Can Prevent Mental Illness in their Children is a rare example of careful conceptual reasoning about basic categories in medicine. Ultimately this is what is sorely needed in rational thinking about the mysteries of mental illness. This book is a fascinating contribution...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Schizophrenia remains an important challenge to psychiatry, with its causes and underlying brain mechanisms yet to be fully revealed. Currently available treatments are neither universally effective nor without unwanted effects. These aspects, together with the high prevalence of schizophrenia, its...