Psychiatry category: 2250 books
Beyond Belief
Alternative Ways of Working with Delusions, Obsessions and Unusual Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Tamasin Knight's book "Beyond Belief" explores ways of helping people who have unusual beliefs. These are beliefs that may be called delusions, obsessions, or another kind of psychopathology.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Dealing With PTSD
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
There was a time not so long ago when someone suffered a great trauma or a tragic event the sufferer was expected to get over it. The idea that real and lasting damage had been done was dismissed. Soldiers who suffered from what was called battle fatigue were called cowards and those who did not quickly...
In My Room
The Recovery Journey as Encountered by a Psychiatrist
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Jim Lucey has been working for more than 25 years with patients suffering from mental health problems. When people at their most vulnerable present to his room at St Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin, they reveal their fears, traumas, and very real human predicaments. Most of the assessments...
When Quietness Came
A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey With Schizophrenia
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
When Quietness Came is the true story of a young woman studying neuroscience who, in her final undergraduate year, has a psychotic break, attempts suicide and ends up in hospital. Her struggles to get well and to pursue her PhD are described in this book. Her story is geared to people from a variety...
by Linda Gask
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
‘If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.’
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Having spent her life trying to patch up the...
The Nutters Club
Helping Nutters from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
**Comedian Mike King and a skilled psychiatrist take a novel approach to issues of mental health.**Comedian Mike King's Radio Live show The Nutters Club is hugely popular because it is a forum where those with all manner of mental health issues can discuss their stories in a warm and accepting environment....
Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Anxiety
A Transdiagnostic Treatment Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is highly effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders, regardless of the specific type of fear that is causing difficulties. This practical, hands-on clinical resource presents a proven group treatment protocol for patients with any anxiety diagnosis. Step-by-step...
by Charlotte Allenou, Charles Baily, Cornelio Banaag
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
In this volume, Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to contribute to advancing awareness of child and adolescent mental health within an international framework that gives special consideration to problems arising in different contexts around the world and through expert views supported by...
Breaking Through to Teens
Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
This book presents groundbreaking strategies for psychotherapy with today's teens, for whom high-risk behavior, lack of adult guidance, and intense anxiety and stress increasingly come with the territory. Ron Taffel addresses the key challenge of building a therapeutic relationship that is strong...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Includes pictures of Freud and important people and places in his life.Discusses Freud's theories and criticism of them.Includes some of Freud's most famous quotes and a bibliography of his major works.Includes a Table of Contents."Only for the most select and most balanced minds does it seem possible...
"I'm, Like, SO Fat!"
Helping Your Teen Make Healthy Choices about Eating and Exercise in a Weight-Obsessed World
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
It’s hard to decide which is more frightening--the “food” teenagers enjoy, or the things they say about their bodies. Whether it’s your son’s passion for chips and soda or your daughter’s announcement that she “feels fat,” kids’ attitude about how they look and what they should eat...
Cognitive-behavioral Therapy with Adults
A Guide to Empirically-informed Assessment and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Cognitive-behavioral therapy has developed hugely over the past 30 years and is the branch of psychotherapy which has most successfully transferred into the mainstream of treating mental health problems. In this volume, readers will be provided with an integrated, systematic approach for conceptualizing...
by Stephen M. Stahl
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
All of the titles in the Stahl's Illustrated series are designed to be fun. Concepts are illustrated by full-color images that will be familiar to all readers of Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology, 3rd Edition and The Prescriber's Guide. The visual learner will find that these books make psychopharmacology...
by Kevin R. Kowalick, Kathryn Cataldo
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
What was founded as the Essex County Lunacy Asylum evolved from a single building on South Orange Avenue to a city within itself in Cedar Grove. It was named the Essex County Overbrook Hospital. Construction began on the hospital's iconic brick buildings in 1896, and they were prominent features on...