Psychiatric and mental disorders Books

Jason was a happy child, sensitive and kind, much loved by his older brother. So what caused him to become an emaciated drug addict and alcoholic before his late teens? Yes, he was hurt by the family break-up, becoming a little more withdrawn, yet such...

This book tackles fragmentation in mental health discourse and in particular the relationship between academic discourse in different disciplinary silos and public discourse in the media. It argues that fragmentation in public discourse does harm, and...

What is the scientific status and the "truth value" of the concept of defense mechanisms? Among contemporary psychologists, three types of answers to this question may be expected. Some would wholeheartedly endorse the...

The Ontogeny of Human Bonding Systems takes an interdisciplinary look at the phenomena of human bonding. The authors draw upon behavioral genetics, molecular genetics of behavior, cognitive and affective neuroscience,...

The author proposes that the four earliest British North American colonies in the United States promoted the development of distinct regional identities and that this cultural legacy affected identity development as well as...

Based on findings from a sample of nearly 1,100 Puerto Ricans living in the New York area, this book posits that adhering to traditional cultural values (for example, the family) has the socially desirable consequence of...

This book describes cognitive-constructivist therapy with children and adolescents as a creative process, combining various techniques. It presents an integrative view, incorporating cognitive and constructivist orientations in...

This book explores hands-on issues of how to implement classical conditioning experiments, describing many of the techniques and equipment used to discover the locus for a simple memory in the brain. It details circuit diagrams...

Much of contemporary behavioral or cognitive neuroscience is concerned with discovering the neural basis of psychological processes such as attention, cognition, consciousness, perception, and memory. In sharp divergence from...

This book is an extension of my 1992 book entitled The Social Context of Chronic Pain Sufferers. Many ideas nominally explored there are elaborated in this volume, which is an attempt to fill a major gap in the chronic pain...

No other book reviews clinical neuropsychological assessment from an empirical psychometric perspective. In this completely revised and updated 2nd edition, the concepts and methods of psychometric neuropsychology are...

Proceedings of the XIV World Meeting of the International Society for the Research on Aggression: Prevention and Control of Aggression and the Impact on its Victims, held in July 9-14, 2000, in Valencia, Spain. Aggression...

In response to the growing concern for the psychological impact of disasters on children, this book integrates a diverse body of literature-including theory, case studies and other research, and assessment and intervention...

Menchola draws on her experience as a clinical neuropsychologist who has worked with a widely diverse group of patients, to translate the findings from highly controlled research into concrete strategies that people can implement in their messy worlds to...

In today's educational landscape, promoting students' mental health and well-being is a pressing concern. Schools face the challenge of addressing diverse mental health needs while creating supportive environments that foster resilience and emotional...

Amidst the issues of our changing climate, a critical yet often overlooked concern comes to the forefront-the profound impact on mental health. As our planet experiences shifts in temperature and ecosystems teeter on the brink, a silent crisis takes...

Aokigahara Forest: The Heartbreaking Secrets of Japan's Suicide Forest, penned by Oliver Lancaster, delves into the haunting and mysterious history of the Aokigahara Forest. Uncover the tragic stories and heart-wrenching experiences associated with this...

"The Quest for Quiet: Cultivating Mindfulness and Solitude in a Noisy World" is an essential guide for those seeking to find balance, inner peace, and personal growth in the face of the challenges presented by modern society. It is an...

Here in the United States, suicide claims the lives of more than ten thousand people every year, but behind this number were individual lives, people with a story. No story is ever the same. The reasons and circumstances why someone chooses suicide...

Einsendeaufgabe aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich VWL - Gesundheitsökonomie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese narrative Übersichtsarbeit befasst sich mit der sozio- und gesundheitsökonomischen Relevanz...

·        Are you a healthcare professional who feels ill-equipped to support your clients trapped in drug or alcohol addiction? ·        Does the mention of your...

•Sind Sie manchmal durch Hintergrundgedanken oder unfreiwilliges Denken abgelenkt?•Wenn Sie meditieren, ist es ein Kampf, „Ihren Verstand zur Ruhe zu bringen"?•Leiden Sie unter aufdringlichen, rasenden oder zwanghaften Gedanken?•Sind Sie jemand, der...

 This guided Mental Health book, planner can be a great way to help get your life on track with all your self-care, mental & emotional well-being. Maintaining a mental health journal, diary is a perfect tool to help manage anxiety and mood,...

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Health and Suffering in America analyzes how we came to see various forms of suffering as "mental illness," and argues that social and historical dynamics, not scientific discovery, gave us this notion. Robert Fancher argues that the beliefs of mental...

Helene Deutsch was one of the most famous psychoanalysts to emerge from Freud's immediate circle in Vienna. Best known for her writings on female psychology, she was also one of the great teachers of psychoanalysis. As the founding president of the...

The Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care offers a multicultural and international perspective on how art therapy can help individuals, groups, families, communities, and nations facing death and dying as well as grief and loss.

God's Think Tank is a non-fiction book that deals heavily with the mental illness of a loved one. Society has a stigma about mental illness. Some people are in denial and refuse help. There is no shame in having a mental illness. The problem comes...

Part of a miniseries of Focus books on COVID-19 in Malaysia, the chapters in this book address the pandemic's impacts on psychology, social resilience, mental health and wellbeing.

Attachment Disability: Misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mismanaged. Until now.To be human is to cultivate attachments: to endeavor to form stable and trusting relationships. Attachment Disability results when stability and trust are broken as a result of...

The Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) is a set of techniques that has proven to be efficacious in the treatment of chronic depression. This book describes ways in which it can be extended in the treatment of patients with a...

Health and social service providers are in pivotal positions to provide preventive and restorative services to those affected by violent and abusive behaviour. This comprehensive textbook presents theoretical background and practical strategies for doing...

Observation of the body helps psychiatrists to determine the cause and treatment of mental illness. Louise Phillips provides an accessible text that enables readers to develop a fuller understanding of the clinical significance of the body in mental...

Have you ever been praised or criticized about your body or any part of it? With this question, participants of a research study were invited to share their experiences of body judgment. As participants described, the body is a carrier of messages and...

Currently, there are a limited amount of guidelines to help clinicians manage patients with obesity and comorbid mental disorders. This expertly written source fills the gap in the literature by providing a clear overview of obesity and its relationship...

The Badge of Distinction refers to the way we all hope to be viewed by our patients and colleagues who view our work over the years.To be the best in any worthwhile discipline, we need to learn from the best. With personal contributions from some of the...

This poetry book was written with the hope of making a gloomy day become a little brighter. Just reading a few poems at a time will hopefully bring out the happiness in each of us. I wrote these poems to bring awareness that although life can be...

The book Hypnotic Gastric Band is a comprehensive guide that explores the power of hypnosis for weight loss. The book focuses on a process called gastric band hypnosis, which aims to create the sensation of a physical gastric band to help people feel...

What's Wrong With Me? is the true, sometimes painfully true, story of Royce Alan Alford's search for healing for those sufferieng from mental, emotional and spiritual illnesses and turmoil, despite the fact that the psychiatric community and Christian...

Neurology does not include study of the limbic system as this is regarded as more relevant to psychiatry. Paradoxically, psychiatrists receive no education on the anatomy, physiology or neuropathology of the limbic system either during their specialist...

In December of 2016, Kristin Topping's life changed in a fraction of a second. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. She was an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, she had a charmed career that took her all over the world as an engineering specialist,...