Psychiatry category: 2250 books
Schizophrenia
Cognitive Theory, Research, and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
From Aaron T. Beck and colleagues, this is the definitive work on the cognitive model of schizophrenia and its treatment. The volume integrates cognitive-behavioral and biological knowledge into a comprehensive conceptual framework. It examines the origins, development, and maintenance of key symptom...
Borderline Personality Disorder
A Clinical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
Covering the range of clinical presentations, treatments, and levels of care, Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD). The second edition includes new research about BPD's...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
In recent years, considerable research, as well as clinical guidelines based on study findings, has been published on the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A gap remains, however, between the controlled environments and protocols used in intervention research and the more complex...
Personality Disorders Over Time
Precursors, Course, and Outcome
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Treating personality disorders can be extremely frustrating for clinicians. As a result, many doctors get caught in a cycle of diagnosing and rediagnosing in an attempt to find an approach that works. In Personality Disorders Over Time: Precursors, Course, and Outcome, Joel Paris, M.D., proposes a...
Treating Substance Abuse, Third Edition
Theory and Technique
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
This state-of-the-art text and clinical resource captures the breadth of current knowledge about substance abuse and its treatment. For each of the major evidence-based treatment approaches, a chapter on basic assumptions and theories is followed by a chapter on clinical applications, including illustrative...
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2004
Addressing the art and science of psychodynamic treatment, Nancy McWilliams distills the essential principles of clinical practice, including effective listening and talking; transference and countertransference; emotional safety; and an empathic, attuned attitude toward the patient. The book describes...
by Paul L. Wachtel, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
This important and innovative book explores a new direction in psychoanalytic thought that can expand and deepen clinical practice. Relational psychoanalysis diverges in key ways from the assumptions and practices that have traditionally characterized psychoanalysis. At the same time, it preserves,...
The World of Mental Health
An Essential Resource for Families, Couples, and Singles
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Dr. Feldmars book is jam-packed with interesting information. You will get a basic understanding of how and why we, and the people around us, behave the way we do. A must-have book for any personal library. - Louis Puglisi, MA I found Dr. Feldmars book to be very informative. He cuts through the professional...
Contemporary Directions in Psychopathology
Scientific Foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
This forward-thinking volume grapples with critical questions surrounding the mechanisms underlying mental disorders and the systems used for classifying them. Edited and written by leading international authorities, many of whom are actively involved with the development of DSM-V and ICD-11, the...
The Value of Psychotherapy
The Talking Cure in an Age of Clinical Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
From a seasoned scholar, clinician, and teacher, this lively, highly readable text probes where the field of psychotherapy is now and where it may be headed in the future. Robert L. Woolfolk explores commonalities and differences among major therapeutic approaches, as well as their philosophical underpinnings....
Sex Research and Sex Therapy
A Sociological Analysis of Masters and Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Gynaecologist William Howell Masters and psychologist Virginia Eshelman Johnson pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. This book examines their influential scientific sex research and...
by Rusty Tagliareni, Christina Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
The Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was more than a building; it embodied an entire era of uniquely American history, from the unparalleled humanitarian efforts of Dorothea Dix to the revolutionary architectural concepts of Thomas Story Kirkbride. After well over a century of service, Greystone...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book discusses how human beings cope with serious physical ill ness and injury. A conceptual model for understanding the process of coping with the crisis of illness is provided, and basic adaptive tasks and types of coping skills are identified. The major portion of the book is organized around...
by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Applying family systems concepts to the intrapsychic realm, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model proposes that individuals' subpersonalities interact and change in many of the same ways as do families and other human groups. Seasoned practitioner Richard C. Schwartz illuminates how parts of a person...