Psychiatry category: 2250 books
by Genevieve Pagalilauan, MD
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
This issue of the Medical Clinics of North America is devoted to Psychiatric Diagnosis and Management in Primary Care and is edited by Dr. Genevieve Pagalilauan. Articles in this issue include: Psychopharmacology; Office-based Screening of Common Psychiatric Conditions; Depression; Anxiety Disorders;...
Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This far-reaching volume analyzes the social, cultural, political, and economic factors contributing to mental health issues and shaping treatment options in the Asian and Pacific world. Multiple lenses examine complex experiences and needs in this vast region, identifying not only cultural issues...
Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
The importance of conducting empirical research for the future of psychodynamics is presented in this excellent new volume. In Handbook of Evidence Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice, the editors provide evidence that supports this type of research for...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Over 100 researchers from 16 countries contribute to the first comprehensive handbook on post-traumatic stress disorder. Eight major sections present information on assessment, measurement, and research protocols for trauma related to war veterans, victims of torture, children, and the aged. Clinicians...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
It’s a startling reality that more American children are victims—and perpetrators—of violence than those of any other developed country. Yet unlike the other nations, the United States has yet to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Compelling, readable, and interdisciplinary,...
Panic and Phobias
Empirical Evidence of Theoretical Models and Longterm Effects of Behavioral Treatments
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Isaac Marks, Institute of Psychiatry, London Human emotion seems to have changed Westphal's perceptive label. Many factor analytic studies in Europe and the USA since DSM-III burst on the world in 1980. The mere fear or anxiety that people used showed that fears of public places are sali ent in...
Experiences of Depression
A study in phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Experiences of Depression is a philosophical exploration of what it is like to be depressed. In this important new book, Matthew Ratcliffe develops a detailed account of depression experiences by drawing on work in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and several other disciplines. In so doing, he makes...
The Selling of DSM
The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition—univer-sally known as DSM-III—embodied a radical new method for identifying psychiatric illness. Kirk and Kutchins challenge the general understanding about the research data and the pro-cess...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Philosophy and psychopathology have more in common than philosophers, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists might think. Three fields of inquiry come to mind: (1) Questions about the scientific status of psychopatho logical statements and claims, (2) ethical questions, and (3) problems regarding...
Resilience in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Translating Research into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Resilience in Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Translating Research into Practice recognizes the growing need to strengthen the links between theory, assessment, interventions, and outcomes to give resilience a stronger empirical base, resulting in more effective interventions and strength-enhancing...
Gene-Environment Transactions in Developmental Psychopathology
The Role in Intervention Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
This book examines the current research in gene-environment transactions (GEX) and its potential use in developing interventions and applications tailored to individual genetic makeups. Key concepts underlying GEX studies in this area are defined, identifying fundamental challenges in devising informed...
Secure Lives
The Meaning and Importance of Culture in Secure Hospital Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Though institutional care for people suffering from mental illness was phased out in the last century, mentally disordered offenders remain the exception to this rule. The numbers detained in medium secure care have increased and new initiatives in high secure care have created specialist facilities...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
The paroxysmal disorders present neurologists and other medical professionals with diagnostic problems across a range of disorders, including multiple sclerosis, migraine and epilepsy. This new English language edition of a compendium of the paroxysmal disorders, originally published in German as...
by N.H. Hadley
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The scene is Britain in the late 40's and early 50's. More specifically, the location is the newly formed Psychology Depart ment of the University of London Institute of Psychiatry, Mauds ley Hospital. Hans J. Eysenck, then University Reader in Psych ology, had an ambitious and bold plan. unheard...