Abnormal psychology Books

In Love and its Vicissitudes André Green and Gregorio Kohon draw on their extensive clinical experience to produce an insightful contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of love.In Part I, 'To Love or Not to Love - Eros and Eris', André...

A permanent and quick solution for all life issues is presented here. How unlikely it may seem, every person has the ability to unfold their full potential in life. This book describes how to get it back within six hours. It is an innovative approach...

Heart Assisted Therapy (HAT) is a dynamic, integrative, humanistic, and mindfulness-enhancing approach to psychotherapy that integrates energy science. HAT uses the influence of the heart-brain-hands connection in concert with cognition, emotion,...

Dieses Buch ist eine bahnbrechende Studie der menschlichen Psychopathologie und Persönlichkeitsstörungen. Julius Ludwig August Koch untersucht die Ursachen und Symptome verschiedener Minderwertigkeiten, wie sie sich in der Gesellschaft zeigen. Ein...

Un classique de la psychiatrie française du 19ème siècle, explorant le phénomène des hallucinations et leur relation avec la maladie mentale. Ce livre influent a jeté les bases de la compréhension moderne de la schizophrénie et d'autres troubles...

The book is a spiritual self-help book to inspire those who might be going through tough times, whether tragedies of illness, poverty, or lost. I wrote the book to be self-empowering and a spiritual awakening to those who might be struggling to find...

The first edition of this book was a groundbreaking, research-based clinical guide to the neurofeedback treatment of ADHD. This second edition maintains this high standard and has been extensively revised and expanded to include new research, an...

A watershed in the articulation of the relational psychoanalytic paradigm, this volume offers a rich overview of issues currently being addressed by clinicians and theoreticians writing from a variety of complementary relational viewpoints. Chapter...

Reading this book may just leave you screaming for Lithium. Taking us viscerally into her mammoth fears, great energy, deep sadness, and often indignant spirit, Carol Coussons de Reyes chronicles her personal journey with bipolar disorder.While other...

At twenty-five years old, Sheila Singleton is forced to make a life-changing decision. Will she commit her troubled younger sister, Nancy, to a mental institution, as the authorities have strongly suggested, or take her into her own home, with two small...

Out of the Nightmare. An all-out assault on the barriers that stand between you and recovery from depression and suicidal pain. . decomposes recovery from depression into recovery from envy, shame, self-pity, grandiosity, fear, stigma, social abuse, and...

Since the 2003 war in Iraq has generated another flood of combat veterans who must live with the psychological consequences of having killed people, their loved ones and people in the media have become keenly interested in what those consequences are and...

This is to endorse the above-named article and recommend it for publication. This book reveals a very personal and unique perspective on life from a man with a horrible mental illness. I have worked with the mentally ill for nearly 15 years and have...

For those with the disorder, schizophrenia can be a debilitating illness. This book is a revision of the book "The Split Brain: An Analysis of Schizophrenia" which includes new research and life stories of those dealing with the illness.

For over 100 years, ADHD has been seen as essentially a behavior disorder. Recent scientific research has developed a new paradigm which recognizes ADHD as a developmental disorder of the cognitive management system of the brain, its executive functions...

Healing War Trauma details a broad range of exciting approaches for healing from the trauma of war. The techniques described in each chapter are designed to complement and supplement cognitive-behavioral treatment protocols-and, ultimately, to help...

While conducting research on intellectual and neuropsychological perfonnance of various patient populations across time, we became aware of the lack of information concerning practice effects associated with many widely used...

1. It is incumbent on medical providers that they are asking patients to - here to regimens with demonstrated eficacy, Providers need to remind themselves of the Hippocratic oath: "I will follow that system of regimen which,...

Meyer Friedman, the physician who first identified Type A behavior (TAB), here offers a full description of the most effective way to correctly diagnose it. This guidebook offers a step-by-step description of his ...

Integrating behavioral, psychoanalytic, and biological perspectives into a unique multi-modal approach, the authors present a new diagnostic and treatment methodology which is flexible enough to account for individual...

During the past ten years, the problem of child abuse has been the subject of increased attention both in the professional community and among the general public. The reasons for this widespread recogni­ tion are clear. First,...

Psychotherapy involves a deep ethical commitment to self-knowl­ edge, personal change, and mutual respect by both the therapist and the patient. Unfortunately, therapists have not always lived up to that commitment in ...

A marriage with an imperfect love story goes tragically wrong one summer in a small college town in Virginia, and the husband is left picking up the pieces of pain and regret. How did it end in suicide instead of divorce? What he discovers six...

Women with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are falling through the cracks, and it's time to talk about it.ADHD is not just a problem for kids and males. With centuries of cultural stereotypes about women's supposed lack of intellect,...

The hidden struggle against depression's devastating effects on mind and spirit has always attracted writers. Protagonists battling depression in fiction, cinema, and other media are frequently portrayed as nuanced, multifaceted figures whose internal...

In today's fast-paced world, stress has become an inevitable part of our lives. Everyone feels stressed at some point in their lives, whether because of work demands, money worries, difficulties in personal relationships, or health problems. The...

Today's hectic lifestyles mean that stress is an ever-present component of most people's days. Everyone experiences stress at some point in their lives, whether it's due to the demands of their jobs, their personal relationships, or the difficulties of...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Beratung und Therapie, Note: 1,0, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Psychologisches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Pilotstudie greift Erkenntnisse und Methoden der...

Are you a shy person? I was once myself, and I want to share what I have learned from my own life.• Quality is more important than quantity when selecting friends.• Social skills are as simple as smiling and saying hi to people.•...

Caroline is a passionate, transformational leader. She is continually driven by the results of those that have learned the Total Release Experience (R). Privileged to have discovered the many mysteries of the body to heal itself with a simple,...

DescriptionDrugs, delusions and disorders, a five year jaunt through the many afflictions of one man who just refused to die. A true story about how a man's madness turned into a search for the answers to great philosphical questions in order to regain...

"I love this poetry, I love this poet" Geoff Thompson - Bafta Winning Writer"As we see around the world there is a need for a new thinking about the stereo types people hold for those who suffer from a psychiatric disability.In this book Paul Butterfield...

Leslie Hanna was born on 28 June 1953 in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. He attended Bangor Grammar School and subsequently Belfast College of Art for one year. He became mentally unwell when age nineteen. He was diagnosed as having schizophrenia...

Charon's Ferry is intended as a sequel to A Pillar of Impotence. It is a story of life after mental health recovery set against the backdrop of a post 9/11 world. It takes the reader out of maze of the Benefits System into the struggle to find meaningful...

Most people accessing mental health and addiction services have experienced trauma. For those working in community services, treatment agencies and hospitals, providing "trauma-informed care" requires an understanding of the effects of trauma, and of how...

A physicist and nuclear engineer became bipolar due to bullying throughout childhood but mostly due to a degrading wife. He experienced 17 years of severe sporadic manic episodes even with medications. With his conflicting physical exercises, he...

¿Te has preguntado de donde viene la imagen del payaso asesino que se ha usado en incontables películas, series y libros? ¿Sabías que el 23 de diciembre de 1978 fue un día que el vecindario de Summerdale recordará para siempre? ¿cómo te sentirías si uno...

In the wee hours of the night, her child-self awakens her and speaks of experiencing a convoluted type of abuse- narcissistic parental abuse. No longer able to deny what happened in the past, she works at putting the pieces together to understand why she...

Veterans in rural communities face unique challenges, who will step up to help?Beginning with a brief scenario of a more gentle view of rural life, the book moves through learned information about families, children, and our returning National Guard and...

Are You Ready to Reboot Your PTSD?Reboot! Confronting PTSD on Your Terms offersa well-structured method for getting a grip onPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and startingto turn it around. Detailed inventories providethe opportunity to explore...