American imprint: 2303 books
by Katherine Bruss, Joy Fincannon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Cancer can be a disruptive and stressful element in a relationship, and this guide provides information about the illness, suggesting ways to work through conflict to create intimacy and to deal with it more successfully. It shows couples how to solve or avert problems, allowing partners to become...
by Jon G. Allen, PhD, Peter Fonagy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Mentalizing, the fundamental human capacity to understand behavior in relation to mental states such as thoughts and feelings, is the basis of healthy relationships and self-awareness. A growing evidence base supports the effectiveness of mentalizing-focused interventions in the treatment of borderline...
Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
A Basic Text
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text takes a hands-on approach, focusing on the fundamental principles and basic features of the psychodynamic modality for the benefit of training directors and trainees in a variety of mental health fields. This new, meticulously updated edition offers...
by Roger A. MacKinnon, MD, Robert Michels
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Much has changed in the critical interval since the last edition of The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice was published. This new, third edition provides an up-to-date examination of the psychiatric interview that reflects changes introduced in DSM-5, while continuing to recognize that describing...
by Eve Caligor, MD, Otto F. Kernberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Offering a sophisticated introduction to a contemporary psychodynamic model of the mind and treatment, this book provides an approach to understanding and treating higher level personality pathology. It describes a specific form of treatment called "dynamic psychotherapy for higher level personality...
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.
Most chapters...
Becoming Mindful
Integrating Mindfulness Into Your Psychiatric Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
According to a 2012 National Institutes of Health survey, 18 million adults in the United States -- 8% of the adult population -- practice some type of meditation. What are the possible applications of meditation -- and mindfulness in particular -- in psychotherapy and psychiatry? Becoming Mindful:...
Depression and Personality
Conceptual and Clinical Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007
Depression and Personality: Conceptual and Clinical Challenges offers an intriguing new look at where we are in understanding the relationship between personality dimensions, disorders, and mood disorder. It is both a cogent update of conceptual models and a clearly written, practical guide to the...
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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,...
Cognitive Dysfunction in Bipolar Disorder
A Guide for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
A growing body of clinical and experimental evidence shows that neurocognitive dysfunction is a fundamental -- yet frequently ignored or misidentified -- component of bipolar disorder. The first comprehensive book of its kind, Cognitive Dysfunction in Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Clinicians compiles...
Communication Skills for Pharmacists: Building Relationships, Improving Patient Care, 3e
Building Relationships, Improving Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Communication Skills for Pharmacists: Building Relationships, Improving Patient Care, 3rd edition, includes new material that will help student pharmacists and practicing pharmacists develop the communication skills they need for providing high-quality care. Key Features: • A new chapter tells how...
El Alamein and the Struggle for North Africa
International Perspectives from the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This new collection of studies presents fresh insights into a war fought over unusually difficult terrain and with exceptional supply demands. From the ongoing Italian geomorphic study of the Alamein arena to individual memories of non-combatant Alexandrians, from the Free French to the seasoned colonial...
From Pharoah's Lips
Ancient Egyptian Language in the Arabic of Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
From the most distant past to the modern day, some things never change including words. The modern Egyptian Arabic dialect is one of the most distinctive in the Arabic-speaking world precisely because of its illustrious heritage from the country's ancient past. Ahmad Abdel-Hamid Youssef spends a day...
Jerusalem without God
Portrait of a Cruel City
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
There is no escaping the Jerusalem of the religious imagination. Not once but three times holy, its overwhelming spiritual significance looms large over the city's complex urban landscape and the diurnal rhythms and struggles that make up its earthbound existence. Nonetheless, writes Paola Caridi,...