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Book SynopsisFenomenologie.- Etiologie.- Probleemanalyse.- Algemene uitgangspunten bij de behandeling.- Behandeling van specifieke fobieën.- Behandeling van paniekstoornis en agorafobie.- Behandeling van sociale fobie/sociale angststoornis.- Behandeling van dwangstoornis.- Behandeling van posttraumatische stress-stoornis.- De behandeling van gegeneraliseerde angststoornis.- Behandeling van hypochondrie.

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Book SynopsisThe Idea of Consciousness examines the problem of how the working of synaptic connections might give rise to consciousness, and describes the current neuroscientific concepts and techniques used to identify and explore those parts of the brain that may be involved. This book will serve as an invaluable and stimulating introduction to the subject. Beautifully illustrated, it is a must for anyone who is curious about consciousness.Table of Contents1. An Introduction to Consciousness and the Brain 2. Syntax, Sematics and Qualia in Consciousness 3. The holistic Nature of Consciousness 4. The Consciousness of Muscular Effort and Movement 5. The Distortion of Consciousness 6. The Evolution of Consciousness 7. Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics An Epilogue: Blade Runner or Einstein?

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work by Sigmund Freud that explores the nature of dreams and their significance in psychoanalysis. In this book, Freud introduces his theory of the unconscious mind and how it influences our dreams, desires, and behavior. He also explains his methods for interpreting dreams and how they can reveal deep-seated psychological issues and conflicts. Published in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams remains an important work in the field of psychology and a testament to Freud's enduring influence on the study of the human mind.

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Book SynopsisThis unique book comprehensively explores and illustrates the different ways in which the medical discipline of psychiatry interfaces and interacts with not only other medical disciplines, but also other aspects of life and knowledge. Divided into 26 chapters, the text begins with an overview of psychiatry interfaces. The next nine sections cover interfaces with other medical disciplines including neurology, obstetrics and gynaecology, gastroenterology, dermatology, and cardiology. The following sections cover different societal aspects and their interfaces with psychiatry, including politics, religion, law, history, philosophy, ethics and culture, and more. The final chapters discuss education, the arts, and social media.Table of Contents1. Interfaces of Psychiatry: An Outline 2. Interface with Biology 3. Interface with Neurology 4. Interface with Obstetrics and Gynecology 5. Interface with Rheumatology 6. Interface with Gastroenterology 7. Interface with Medical and Surgical Specialties 8. Interface with Dermatology 9. Interface with Cardiology 10. Interface with Sexuality and Sexual Disorders 11. Interface with Ethics and Culture 12. Interface with Politics 13. Interface with History 14. Interface with Sociology 15. Interface with Mythology 16. Interface with Philosophy 17. Interface with Religion 18. Interface with Art Therapy 19. Interface with Law 20. Interface with Parapsychology 21. Interface with Technology and Mental Health 22. Interface with Education 23. Interface with Cinema 24. Interface with Dance, Music, and Theater 25. Interface with Anthropology 26. Interface with Social Media

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Book SynopsisRecent surveys demonstrate a high and possibly increasing prevalence of mental disorders in prisoners. They have an increased risk of suffering from a mental disorder that transcends countries and diagnoses. Ethical dilemmas in prison psychiatry arise from resource allocation and include issues of patient choice and autonomy in an inherently coercive environment. Ethical conflicts may arise from the dual role of forensic psychiatrists giving raise to tensions between patient care/protection of the public.This book describes models and ethical issues of psychiatric healthcare in prison in several countries. Relevant issues are: the professional medical role of a psychiatrist and/or psychotherapist working in prison, the involvement of psychiatrists in disciplinary or coercive measures; consent to treatment, the use of coercion in forcing a prisoner to undergo treatment, hunger strike, confidentiality. The book ends with consensus guidelines concerning good practice in Prison Psychiatry.Trade Review“The book Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry is a comprehensive contribution to the subject, providing the reader with a rich analysis of the whole range of aspects that affect the ethical evaluation of the phenomenon. … The clear style makes it accessible to readers coming from many different disciplines—for scholars interested in the argument as well as for social theorists and medical and legal practitioners … .” (Luciana Caenazzo, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 36, 2015)“Editors and contributors of Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry have carefully laid out and discussed many issues that clearly cannot be ignored, whether by ethicists, scientist–practitioners, or policy makers seeking to improve the way we incapacitate, treat, and punish those who have serious difficulties adapting to social life and community laws. … I can’t imagine any library that takes the work of prison treatment seriously that won’t have a copy of Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry as a sourcebook.” (J. Tyler Carpenter, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 59 (27), July, 2014)“This book attempts to highlight the challenges unique to providing mental healthcare to populations of incarcerated individuals. The book is helpful for anyone interested in or participating in the treatment of mentally ill individuals in a correctional system, but it also may be enlightening for sociologists, criminologists, social workers, or anyone else invested in gaining a greater appreciation for the difficulties inherent in providing mental healthcare in a correctional institution. … This is a useful resource that is a welcome addition to my bookshelf.” (Steven T. Herron, Doody’s Book Reviews, January, 2014)Table of ContentsIntroduction; Prison Psychiatry (Norbert Konrad).- Ethics within the Prison System (Helmut Pollähne).- Ethical Issues in Correctional Psychiatry in the United States (Henry Dlugacz Julie Y. Low, Christopher Wimmer and Lisa Knox).- The Evolution of Punishment and Incarceration (George B. Palermo).- Forensic Research With The Mentally Disordered Offender (Julio Arboleda-Flórez and David Weisstub).- Special problems in different countries.- Ethical issues in Australian prison psychiatry (Danny Sullivan).- Penitentiary mental health care in Belgium (Paul Cosyns and Kris Goethals).- Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry: Forensic mental health care in Brazil (José G. V. Taborda, Lisieux E. de B. Telles, Maurício Cardoso, Helena D.C.Bins).- Psychiatric treatment in the detention systems of Quebec, trying to merge carceral and therapeutic cultures (Jocelyne Aubut, Jean-Luc Dubreucq, Marie-Hélène Régnier).- Ethical issues in German Prison Psychiatry (Norbert Konrad).- Mentally ill prisoners: Indian perspective (Siva Nambi, Janannathan Srinivasaraghavan).- Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry in Israel (Jacob Margolin, Moshe Birger, Eliezer Witztum).- Current status of prison psychiatry and its relationship with general psychiatry in Japan (Yoji Nakatani, Osamu Kuroda).- Overcrowded Prisons And Low Psychiatric Provision: The Situation Of Mentally Ill Prisoners In Kenya (David Ndetai and Muthoni Mathai) .- Ethical Problems of Forensic and Prison Psychiatry in Latvia (Māris Taube).- Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry in the Netherlands (E.D.M. Masthoff, B.H. Bulten).- Ethical isues in prison psychiatry in România (Nicoleta Tătaru).- Ethical issues of mental health care in the Slovene prison system (Vita Poštuvan, Tanja Madjar).- Quality and ethical problems of mental health services in prisons in Spain (Luis Fernando Barrios Flores & Francisco Torres-Gonzáles).- Ethical isues in prison psychiatry in Sweden (Orsolya Hoffmann, Lennart Mossberg).- Prison psychiatry in Switzerland (Marc Graf).- Current ethical challenges in prison psychiatry in England & Wales (Adarsh Kaul, Birgit Völlm).- Application of the AMA Code of Medical Ethics to Psychiatric Practice in Correctional Facilities and Access to Psychiatric Care in the U.S.A. (Alan R. Felthous).- Conclusion (Norbert Konrad, Birgit Völlm and David Weisstub)

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Book SynopsisThe main theme of this book concems the relationship, if any, between and addietion. Are they linked biochemieally? Is there a schizophrenia common factor for all addietions? We need to know whether the chemis­ try of addiction can help clarify the biochemistry of schizophrenia and vice versa. There is much anecdotal evidence that many sufferers from schizophrenia are addieted to smoking, are adversely affected by even small amounts of alcohol and do have their schizophrenie illness wor­ sened by street drugs. We would urge our readers to try to find correla­ tions between some of the findings described here on the biology of schizophrenia and what they read in the up-to-date chapters on addie­ tions. We would like to thank all the authors for the excellence of their work and for their cooperation and understanding of our needs and also, for the second time this year, to thank MTP Press for their willingness to pub­ lish a perhaps somewhat provocative book. We thank them for their humanity.Table of ContentsSection 1: Pathogenesis.- 1 The role of a prostaglandin E1 deficiency in schizophrenia: interactions with dopamine and opiates.- 2 The pathogenesis of schizophrenia.- 3 Opiates, opioid peptides and their possible relevance to schizophrenia.- 4 The possible actions of peptides with opioid activity derived from pepsin hydrolysates of wheat gluten and other constituents of gluten in the function of the central nervous system.- 5 Preliminary studies of the identification of brain peptides in relation to the genesis and expression of schizophrenia.- 6 The role of the dopamine system in schizophrenia.- Section 2: Immunology.- 7 The relevance of immunopathology to research into schizophrenia.- 8 Some connections between immunoglobulins and schizophrenia.- 9 Antibodies to wheat proteins in schizophrenia: relationship or coincidence?.- 10 The effects of hormones on immune responses.- 11 Binding of chlorpromazine and HLA-A1 antibodies to human lymphocyte membranes.- 12 The possible role of a prostaglandin Ea deficiency in the immunological abnormalities seen in schizophrenia.- 13 Immunological reaction of psychotic patients to fractions of gluten.- Section 3: Addiction.- 14 ß-endorphin and endoloxone: messengers of the autonomic nervous system for the conservation or expenditure of bodily resources and energy in anticipation of famine or feast.- 15 The pharmacology of tobacco smoking in relation to schizophrenia.- 16 Alcoholism and schizophrenia: a basic science approach.- 17 Opiate dependence and tolerance: a pharmacological analysis.- Section 4: Puerperal Psychoses.- 18 Puerperal schizophrenia?.- Section 5: Enzymology.- 19 The digestion and absorption of dietary protein.- Section 6: Physiology.- 20 Correlation between behavioural responses and cardiovascular changes and the central nervous mechanisms responsible for them.- Section 7: Morbidity and Mortality.- 21 Schizophrenia and physical disease: a preliminary analysis of data from the Oxford Record Linkage Study.- Section 8: Drug Treatments.- 22 Depot neuroleptics and tardive dyskinesia: prospective study.- 23 Recent developments in the drug treatment of schizophrenia.

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Book SynopsisCrises are not a feature of depressive illness; but this illness needs to be considered in the diagnoses of three acute emergencies: the agitated patient, the withdrawn patient and the suicidal patient. A. The agitated patient. Restless, anguished, phrenetic and impor­ tunate behaviour. Differential diagnoses include hypomania, acute anxiety and grief, hysteria, drug intoxication, thyrotoxicosis, cerebrovascular accident or cerebral tumour. Agitated depression carries a relatively high risk of suicide. Management usually requires admission and use of adequate doses of antidepressant and neuroleptic drugs, and often ECT. B. The withdrawn patient who avoids social contacts and obligations and is often slowed up in mind and body. Differential diagnoses in­ clude schizophrenia, CVA or tumour, hysteria and semi-coma includ­ ing drug intoxication. Withdrawn and retarded patients with depres­ sive illness are at risk of failing to eat or care for themselves. C. The suicidal patient. May present as unexpected, inexplicable coma; a badly cut patient may be confused by the doctor with acci­ dent or assault. The immediate emergency is medical or surgical: treatment is for coma, bleeding or asphyxia, and requires immediate admission to casualty. The first presentation of depression is always a minor emergency as it may be the only attempt the patient makes to see a doctor. Diagnosis must be positive, based on the recognition of depres­ sive features, not negative, based on the exclusion of other dis­ eases. The cardinal symptoms of depressive illness: 1. Disturbed sleep pattern. 2. Change in appetite for food.Table of Contents1 Deluded Patients.- Delusions of jealousy.- Grandiose delusions.- Hypochondriacal delusions.- Possession of thought.- Delusions of persecution (paranoid delusions).- Delusions of reference.- Delusions of guilt, ruin and poverty.- Diagnosis.- Management.- Need for admission.- Examples.- 2 Suspicious Patients.- The sorting process.- Interviewing the suspicious patient.- Special problems with suspicious patients.- The paranoid personality.- The paranoid reaction.- Paranoid psychoses.- Litigious paranoia.- Paranoid jealousy (Othello syndrome).- Paranoid schizophrenia.- Delusional misidentification.- Paraphrenia.- Intoxications.- Drug induced delirium.- Toxic psychoses.- Primary mood disorder.- Physical illness.- Organic brain disease.- 3 Alcoholic Patients.- Acute problems in family practice.- Alcoholism and mental disorders.- Treatment of alcohol withdrawal.- Early signs of alcohol abuse.- Alcohol dependence syndrome: definition of problem drinking.- Social effects of alcohol abuse.- Physical effects of alcohol abuse.- Management of patients with drinking problems.- Alcohol — the substance and its metabolism.- 4 Hallucinated Patients.- Hallucinations in children.- Hallucinations in young adults.- Hallucinations in middle age.- Hallucinations in the elderly.- Hallucinogens.- Solvent abuse (glue sniffing).- Hallucinations from prescribed drugs.- Alcoholism.- Drug withdrawal.- Epilepsy.- Hysteria.- Manic depression.- Organic states.- Paranoid states.- Puerperal psychosis.- Schizophrenia.- Dementia.- Sensory deprivation.- 5 Depressed Patients.- The agitated patient.- Management.- The withdrawn patient.- Management.- The suicidal patient.- Management.- Presenting symptoms of depression.- Central symptoms of depression.- Peripheral symptoms of depression.- The personality.- 6 Suicide and Parasuicide.- The sorting process.- Diseases which may lead to self-harm.- Affective psychoses.- Schizophrenia.- Neurotic and personality disorders.- Acute reactions to stress.- Organic states.- Withdrawal of amphetamines or cocaine.- Situations of increased risk.- 7 Hysterical Patients.- Hysterical symptoms.- Vulnerability factors.- Types of patient.- Hysterical personality.- Amnesia.- Fugues: diagnostic features.- Multiple personality.- Stupor: diagnostic features.- Fits: diagnostic features and differential diagnosis from epilepsy.- Faints, falls and dizziness.- Motor dysfunction.- Sensory dysfunction.- Gastrointestinal presentations.- Gynaecological or genitourinary presentations.- Cardiorespiratory presentations.- Musculoskeletal presentations.- Dermatological presentations.- Psychiatric presentations.- Management.- Children and hysteria.- 8 Frightened Patients.- Fear occurring in:.- Physical illness.- Terminal illness.- Anxiety disorders.- Phobic disorders:.- Agoraphobia.- Social phobias.- Animal phobias.- Depersonalisation.- Hypochondriasis.- Obsessions.- Post-traumatic stress disorder.- Epilepsy.- Organic disorders.- Acute organic psychiatric syndromes.- Use and abuse of drugs.- 9 The Presentation and Care of the Rape Victim.- Background.- Rape trauma syndrome.- Counselling the rape victim.- Management:.- Medical.- Practical.- Psychological.- 10 Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents.- Emotional disorders:.- Hysteria.- Acute phobic reactions.- Sleep and habit disorders.- Attempted suicide.- Wrist slashing.- Conduct disorders:.- School refusal.- Stealing.- Running away.- Illicit drug taking.- Acute psychoses and their managment.- Anorexia nervosa.- Child abuse.- Sexual problems.- Schoolgirl pregnancy.- Post-traumatic stress disorder.- Life-threatening illness and dying children.- 11 Disturbed Adolescents.- Principles of assessment.- Process of assessment.- Specific types of disturbance in adolescence.- Delinquent behaviour.- Violent behaviour.- Runaways.- Oppositional adolescents.- Anxiety and panic.- School refusal.- Depression.- Withdrawn behaviour.- Anorexia nervosa.- Parasuicide.- Psychotic disturbance.- Sexual deviations and problems:.- Exhibitionism.- Transvestitism.- Transsexualism.- Sexual abuse of adolescents.- High-risk families.- 12A The Bereaved Adult.- Anticipation.- Impact.- Normal grief.- Determinants of outcome.- Counselling in early bereavement.- Counselling in later bereavement.- 12B The Bereaved Child.- Preparation and explanation.- Substitute care.- Should children visit a dying parent in hospital?.- Should children go to the funeral?.- Therapeutic intervention.- Other and special bereavements: loss of sibling, grandparents, neighbours, friends, teachers, pets.- Violent death.- Divorce, separation, loss of limb or bodily function.- Services available to the bereaved child and family.- 13 Vulnerable Students.- Emergency presentation.- Acute reactive “unhappiness” or “depression”.- Work panic and examination stress.- Colleague referrals.- Relationship break-up.- The morning after.- The manipulative episode.- The manic episode.- The diabetic.- General matters.- Social.- Emotional.- Medical.- Academic — dynamics of success and failure.- Needs.- Curiosity.- Understanding.- Transfer.- Maturity.- Test out.- Degree.- Grants.- Medical status.- Confidentiality.- Occupational hazards of being a student.- The problem area.- The role of listening in treatment.- 14 Dangerous Patients.- Sorting process.- Violence in the community.- Family violence:.- Morbid jealousy.- Baby battering.- Wife battering.- Granny bashing.- Familial homicide:.- The depressive murderer.- Parents who kill their children.- 15 Demented Patients.- Causes of dementia.- Clinical features.- End results.- Diagnosis.- An abbreviated mental test.- Depression and dementia.- The Diogenes syndrome.- Parkinsonism and dementia.- Management:.- Specific and symptomatic.- Prognosis.- 16 Problems Arising after Therapeutic Abortion.- Common presenting symptoms.- Timing of presentation.- Approach to the interview.- Factors causing symptoms.- Overt reasons for the unwanted pregnancy.- Covert reasons for the unwanted pregnancy.- Categories of patients.- Counselling.- Repeated abortion.- 17 Puerperal Emergencies.- Acute mental illness in the mother.- Puerperal psychosis.- Puerperal and post-natal depression.- Threats to the safety of the newborn.- Incompetent mothering.- Irritable mothers.- Delayed maternal attachment.- Rejection of the baby.- Obsession of infanticide.- Child abuse.- Infanticide.- 18 Emergencies Arising from the Non-Medical Consumption of Drugs.- Definitions.- Types of emergency.- Classification by pharmacological action.- Classification by style of use.- Overdoses and their management:.- Opioids.- Sedative/tranquilliser drugs.- Volatile inhalants.- Stimulants.- Psychedelic drugs.- Acute adverse reactions and their management:.- Opioids.- Sedative/tranquilliser drugs.- Psychedelic drugs.- Stimulants.- Drug withdrawal emergencies and their management:.- Sedative/tranquilliser drugs.- Opiates.- Stimulants.- Complications of drug misuse:.- Syringe transmitted infections.- Local infection trauma.- Pregnancy and drug addiction:.- Management.- Counselling on drug problems.- 19 Excited Patients.- The sorting process.- New excitement.- Recurrent excitement.- Assessment.- Management:.- Psychological.- Pharmacological.- Forensic considerations.- 20 Confused Patients.- The distinction between delirium and uncomplicated dementia.- Symptoms and signs of delirium.- The causes of delirium.- Delirium in children and adults.- Delirium in the elderly.- Mental Status Testing.- Other causes of “confusion”.- Investigations.- Management.- 21 Moody Patients.- The sorting process.- Lifelong moodiness:.- Diurnal variation.- Hysterical personality.- Psychopathic personality.- Cyclothymic personality.- Recent moodiness.- Psychiatric illness:.- Depressive illness.- Mania.- Schizophrenia.- Physical illness:.- Cerebral lesions.- Endocrine disorders.- Hormones.- Drugs.- Life rhythms.

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with one aspect of the modern, proof, and the deductions to which they give rise, and scientific study of intelligence, namely its measurement. the social aspect, which is concerned with the "good" or The term, measurement, has difficulties attached to it "evil" consequences which follow from the scientific which rival those attached to the term, intelligence; discovery or invention. Thus IQ testing would appear to many psychologists have little idea of what the word many people to give rise to desirable and "good" conse­ means, and what are the requirements which must be quences when it enables us to pick out bright "dis­ fulfilled in order to enable "measurement" to take advantaged" children for higher educational and place. Krantz, Luce, Suppes and Tversky (1971) have university training who would otherwise not have been tried to provide us with an introduction to the "Founda­ educated up to the level of their ability. On the other tions of Measurement"; these two volumes outline the hand, IQ testing would appear to many people to give background against which attempts to measure intelli­ rise to undesirable and "bad" consequences when it gence must be evaluated. * No short excerpt or set of enables trade unions to exclude coloured workers by the readings could suffice to bring home to the "innum­ imposition of unrealistic and irrelevant intellectual erate" reader the implications of scientific measurement, requirements for membership.Table of ContentsI History and Definition of the Concept.- The Evidence for the Concept of Intelligence.- On Defining Intelligence.- II Measurement and the Problem of Units.- The Absolute Zero in Intelligence Testing.- Is Intelligence Distributed Normally?.- III Development and Constancy of the IQ.- The Effect of the Interval between Test and Retest on the Constancy of the IQ.- The Limitations of Infant and Preschool Tests in the Measurement of Intelligence.- Intellectual Status and Intellectual Growth.- IV Types of Intelligence.- Primary Mental Abilities.- Organization of Abilities and the Development of Intelligence.- A Culture-Free Intelligence Test.- Ability Factors and Environmental Influences.- Personality and Measurement of Intelligence.- V Analysis of IQ Performance.- Intelligence Assessment: a Theoretical and Experimental Approach.- Intellectual Abilities and Problem-Solving Behaviour.- The Speed and Accuracy Characteristics of Neurotics.- Individual Differences in Speed, Accuracy, and Persistence: a Mathematical Model for Problem Solving.- VI Heredity and Environment: I. Twin and Familial Studies.- Genetics and Intelligence: a Review.- Twins: Early Mental Development.- IQs of Identical Twins Reared Apart.- VII Heredity and Environment: II. Foster and Orphanage Children.- A Critical Examination of the University of Iowa Studies of Environmental Influences upon the IQ.- The Relative Influence of Nature and Nurture upon Mental Development: a Comparative Study of Foster Parent-Foster Child Resemblance and True Parent-True Child Resemblance.- VIII Intelligence and Social Class.- Intelligence and Social Mobility.- Achievement and Social Mobility: Relationships among IQ Score, Education, and Occupation in Two Generations.- Differential Fertility and Intelligence: Current Status of the Problem.- Does Intelligence cause Achievement? A Cross-Legged Panel Analysis.- Ability and Income.- IX The Biological Basis of Intelligence.- Evoked Cortical Potentials and Measurement of Human Abilities.- Effects of Glutamic Acid on the Learning Ability of Bright and Dull Rats.- Effects of Heredity and Environment on Brain Chemistry, Brain Anatomy and Learning Ability in the Rat.- X The Paradigm and Its Critics.

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the measurement of personality, in detail concerning the philosophical discussions of this much the same way as an earlier book dealt with the concept; the reader must be referred to Suppe's (1974) measurement of intelligence (Eysenck, 1973). In each book for this purpose. Immediately the reader will case the major part of the book consists of reprinted express a doubt. It is possible to argue that such a articles of particular interest and importance, organized paradigm exists in the field of intelligence, although into ten sections, and linked by short commentaries. In even that statement would be criticized by many each case, the intent is not to produce a textbook, or a psychologists; can it be argued that such a statement survey of all or many of the current approaches to the can seriously be made in the field of personality? There subject, or an eclectic conglomerate, but rather to try is indeed a marked difference of status; I would suggest and give a coherent impression of a scientific paradigm. that the paradigm of "intelligence" fashioned by Galton, Paradigms, as defined by Kuhn (1962), are "accepted Spearman, Burt, Thurstone and Binet is not exempt examples of actual scientific practice-examples which from criticism, but it does constitute a paradigm as include law, theory, application, and instrumentation defined by Kuhn.Table of ContentsI Models of Personality.- Personality Research: Components of Variance Attributable to the Person and the Situation.- Personality in Monkeys: Factor Analyses of Rhesus Social Behaviour.- The Nature of Extraversion: A Genetical Analysis.- Primaries or Second-order Factors: A Critical Consideration of Cattell’s 16 PF Battery.- Eysenck’s Personality Dimensions: A Model for the MMP.- II The Physiological Basis of Personality.- Extraversion-Introversion and the EEG.- Electrodermal Lability as a Personality Dimension.- Initial Amplitude and Rate of Habituation of Orienting Reaction in Relation to Extraversion and Neuroticism.- Sensation Seeking and Cortical Augmenting-Reducing.- Salivary Response to Lemon Juice as a Measure of Introversion.- Introversion-Extraversion and Circadian Rhythms.- Personality and the Inverted-U Relation.- III Pain, Sensory Deprivation, and Sensation Seeking.- Introversion and Isolation Tolerance.- Personality and Time Estimation in Sensory Deprivation.- Tolerance for Experimentally Induced Pain as Related to Personality.- “Stimulus Hunger”: Individual Differences in Operant Strategy in a Button-pressing Task.- Extraversion and Preferred Level of Sensory Stimulation.- Extraversion and Variety-seeking in a Monotonous Task.- Stimulant and Depressant Drugs on Kinaesthetic Figural After-effects.- The Tolerance for Pain and for Sensory Deprivation.- IV Personality and Vigilance.- Physiological and Personality Correlates of Commission Errors in an Auditory Vigilance Task.- Varied Auditory Stimulation, Temperament Differences and Vigilance Performance.- Personality and Physiological Correlates of Performance Decrement on a Monotonous Task Requiring Sustained Attention.- Vigilance Performance Related to Extraversion-Introversion and Caffeine.- The Effect of a Low Rate of Regular Signals upon the Reaction Times of Introverts and Extraverts.- Errors of Commission as a Function of Age and Temperament in a Type of Vigilance Task.- V Personality and Perceptual Reactions.- Extraversion and Auditory Sensitivity to High and Low Frequency.- Relation of Visual Sensitivity to Extraversion.- Effect of Intensity of Visual Stimulation on Auditory Sensitivity in Relation to Personality.- Effects of Intensity of Auditory Stimulation on Photopic Visual Sensitivity in Relation to Personality.- Extraversion and Pupillary Response to Affective and Tabboo Words.- Colour Preferences, Extraversion, and Neuroticism of Art Students.- Preference of Complexity as a Function of Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Amplitude of Orienting Response.- The Effects of Chlorpromazine and Dextroamphetamine Sulphate on the Visual Stimulation Preference of Extraverts and Introverts.- VI Psychomotor Behaviour.- Effects of Muscle Relaxation Training on State and Trait Anxiety in Extraverts and Introverts.- Psychomotor Performance as a Function of White Noise and Personality Variables.- Personality and the Success of Card-punch Operators in Training.- Evidence for the Generality of Reminiscence as a Function of Extraversion and Neuroticism.- Strategies in Rotary Pursuit Tracking.- Anxiety as a Function of Task Performance Feedback and Extraversion-Introversion.- VII Learning and Conditioning.- Emotionality and Performance on Competitional and Non-competitional Paired-associates.- Activation, Manifest Anxiety and Verbal Learning.- Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Verbal Reasoning Ability as Determinants of Paired-associates Learning.- Extraversion and Increased Interference in Paired-associate Learning.- Interference, Extraversion and Paired-associate Learning.- Effects of Anxiety Level and Extraversion-Introversion on Probability Learning.- The Influence of Personality and Task Conditions on Learning and Transfer.- The Effects of Stimulant and Depressant Drugs on Verbal Conditioning.- Conditioning, Introversion-Extraversion and the Strength of the Nervous System.- VIII Memory and Recall.- Extraversion, Arousal, and Paired-associate Recall.- Short- and Long-term Memory as a Function of Individual Differences in Arousal.- Relationship between Sharpening and Extraversion.- Individual Differences in Speed of Retrieval from Semantic Memory.- Arousal and Speed of Recall.- Individual Differences in Cognition: Some Relationships between Personality and Memory.- IX Cognition and Creativity.- Anxiety, Extraversion-Introversion, and Divergent Thinking Ability.- Divergent Thinking: A Complex Function of Interacting Dimensions of Extraversion-Introversion and Neuroticism-Stability.- The Relationships between Intelligence, Personality and Creativity under Two Conditions of Stress.- Individual Differences in Solution Time in Error-free Problem Solving.- Personality in Primary School Children: 1. Ability and Achievement.- The Effects of Chronological Age on the Relationship of Intelligence and Academic Achievement with Extraversion and Neuroticism.- Introversion-Extraversion, Time Stress, and Caffeine: Effect on Verbal Performance.- X Social Behaviour.- Personality Characteristics of Good Judges of Others.- Personality and Speech.- Personality and Differential Susceptibility to Hypnosis: Further Replication and Sex Differences.- Personality and Sexual Adjustment.- Extraversion, Neuroticism, Psychoticism and Antisocial Behaviour in Schoolgirls.

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Book SynopsisFor years lip service has been paid to a belief in a biological basis for schizophrenia, but ,nevertheless psychosocial and psychodynamic "theories" of schizophrenia have been promulgated, and these have detracted from the all important biological work, Eclecticism has ruled the day and has caused considerable confusion, As a result research in schizophrenia has not progressed as fast as it should have done and treatment has been less effective than it could otherwise have been. This book is devoted to a wholly biological approach to the problem of schizophrenia, in the hope that many more workers will enter this exciting field of research. A wide variety of topics is covered, including brain structure; the genetics, pathogenesis and treatment of schizophrenia; a consideration of dietary and immunological factors and finally a chapter on alcoholism as it seems possible that the problems of schizophrenia and addiction are linked. We are grateful to all our contributors and to MTP Press for their enthusiasm for this book. Gwynneth P Hemmings William A Hemmings XI SECTION 1: Structure 1 The brain stem reticular formation K. E. WEBSTER There can be no question that the brain stem reticular lormation no longer exercises the same fascination for neurologists that it did a quarter of a century ago.Table of ContentsSection 1: Structure.- 1 The brain stem reticular formation.- Section 2: Genetics.- 2 Clinical and biochemical manifestations of acute intermittent porphyria: a working model for schizophrenia as an inborn error of metabolism.- Section 3: Pathogenesis.- 3 Psychoses from digestive origins.- 4 The amino hepato-entero-toxic theory of schizophrenia: an historical evaluation.- 5 Clues to the causation of schizophrenia.- 6 An evaluation of the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia.- 7 The dopamine hypothesis revisited.- 8 Tryptophan and serotonin in schizophrenia: a clue to biochemical defects?.- 9 Neurochemical findings in the post-mortem schizophrenic brain.- 10 The pineal gland: its possible significance in schizophrenia.- Section 4: Treatment.- 11 Rational drug treatment in schizophrenia.- 12 Investigations into serum folate and B12 concentrations in psychiatric in-patients with particular reference to schizophrenia.- 13 Propranolol and schizophrenia: objective evidence of efficacy.- Section 5: Dietary Factors.- 14 The effect of diet on brain neurotransmitters.- 15 Schizophrenia: Are some food-derived polypeptides pathogenic? Coeliac disease as a model.- 16 Some insights into the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.- 17 Nutrition and schizophrenia: implications and problems.- 18 The cytotoxic properties of wheat proteins.- 19 5-Hydroxytryptamine metabolism in coeliac disease.- 20 A preliminary investigation of dietary constituents and amphetamine-induced abnormal behaviour.- Section 6: Immunological Factors.- 21 Immunobiological approaches to the study of gut function.- 22 Nutrition and immunity: possible new approaches to research in schizophrenia.- 23 The absorption of large breakdown products of dietary proteins into the body tissues including brain.- 24 Antibodies to gliadin in serum of normals, coeliac patients and schizophrenics.- Section 7: Alcoholism.- 25 Screening tests for alcoholism.

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Book SynopsisIt is the mission of this volume to accomplish functioning normally. Similarly, if our MMPI two goals: (1) present a relatively broad profile falls entirely within the designated spectrum or research focusing on biophysical 'normal range' we conclude that our person­ aspects of personality, (2) select those studies ality is functioning normally. Abnormal per­ examining normal personality. Both state­ sonality is thought of as so extreme ments require brief clarification. (schizophrenia, manic-depression, neurosis With regards to the first point, it will and the like) that it bears no resemblance, become evident why the qualifier 'relatively' is surely nothing to do with 'normals'. Such used. This area of inquiry is a recent one, only reasoning is surely one of the factors con­ within the past several decades moving into tributing to the sparse research on normal the neighbourhood of scientific respectability. personality (i.e. what is normal need not be As such, investigation has been limited to a investigated since, by definition, it is normal.).Table of ContentsSection One Arousal Theory and Personality: Methodological and Conceptual Issues.- Studies of Autonomic Response Patterns: Rationale and Methods.- The Psychological Significance of the Concept of “Arousal” or “Activation”.- Activation: A Neuropsychological Dimension.- A Comparison of Two Measures of “Arousal” in Normal Subjects.- The Measurement of Autonomic Arousal.- The Two-Arousal Hypothesis: Reticular Formation and Limbic System.- Section Two Pavlov and Strength of the Nervous System.- Some Normal and Pathological Properties of Nervous Processes in the Brain.- The Problem of Types of Human Higher Nervous Activity and Methods of Determining Them.- Conditioning, Introversion — Extraversion and the Strength of the Nervous System.- Strength of the Nervous System, Introversion — Extraversion, Conditionability and Arousal.- Relationship Between “Strength of the Nervous System” and the Need for Stimulation.- Extraversion, Neuroticism and Strength of the Nervous System.- Section Three Introversion/Extraversion.- The Chemical Theory of Temperament Applied to Introversion and Extraversion.- Cortical Inhibition, Figural Aftereffect, and Theory of Personality.- Neurophysiologic Studies of Personality.- Extraversion, Reminiscence and Satiation Effects.- Pupillary Response, Conditioning, and Personality.- Psychoticism: A Study of its Biological Basis in Normal Subjects.- Section Four Cortical Substrates of Behaviour.- The Anterior Cingulate Gyrus and Personality.- Personality Analysis Before and After Frontal Lobotomy.- The Effect of Brain Damage on the Personality.- Brain Function and Behaviour.- Psychological Correlates of Monoamine Oxidase Activity in Normals.- Section Five Behavioural Genetics.- The Inheritance of Extraversion-Introversion.- The Inheritance of Personality.- Heritability of Personality: A Demonstration.- The Nature of Extraversion: A Genetical Analysis.- A Longitudinal Study of the Genetics of Personality.

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Table of Contents1. Psychiatry: Is our Hour Up?.- 2. Reflections on the Morality of Psychiatry.- 3. The Psychiatrist in the Courtroom: Expert or Advocate?.- 4. Psychiatry, Civil Rights, and the Mental Patient.- 5. Current Legal Issues Affecting the Practice of Psychiatry.- 6. Addendum-Chapter.- 7. Informed Consent: Elements for Crisis.- 8. Psychotherapy: Alive or Dead?.- 9. Psychiatry and Medicine: Marriage or Divorce?.- 10. Credibility: The Problem with Psychiatry’s Return to Medicine.- 11. Crisis in American Psychiatry.- 12. Psychiatry in Crisis.- 13. Psychiatry’s Changing Role in Medical Education.- 14. Aging, The Aged, and Psychiatry: Cinderella Revisited.- 15. The Social Role of Psychiatry: A Look Forward to the Eighties.

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Book SynopsisI have spent the best part of the last quarter of a century working on the con­ sultation service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Much of my satisfaction has stemmed from working with nonpsychiatric physicians, especially in having them come to realize the value of psychological methods in the treatment of their patients. It has always been my belief that learning to understand the patient's mental life was as much a part of medicine as the taking of vital signs. To treat adequately, certainly to treat well, a physician must know something of his patient's thought processes. Teaching others the value of this knowledge is the first step in educating them to seek ways of learning it themselves. Rarely can this be done in the lecture hall. One can best pique curiosity by demon­ strating worth, and that is done at the bedside or in whatever setting the con­ sultation is carried out. Every consultation then carries an implicit imperative to attest its value. It can be covert teaching at its best. I have found the practice of consultation psychiatry satisfying and compelling enough to want to remain in it for at least another quarter of a century .Table of Contents1. The Temperament and Preparation of the Consultant.- The Consultant, the Family, and Divorce.- 2. The Psychiatrist as a Consultant in Divorce and Custody.- 3. The Child Psychiatrist in Consultation within the Legal System.- 4. Family Assessment.- 5. Consultation for Adolescents.- The Consultant in the Clinical Setting.- 6. Child Psychiatry Consultation in a Pediatric Ward.- 7. Consultation with Highly Stressed Mental Health Professionals—The “Anchor Worker”.- 8. Consulting to a Rural Guidance Clinic.- 9. Consultation in Outpatient Settings.- The Consultant and the Educational System.- 10. Teachers and Classrooms.- 11. Administration and the Therapist: Consultation Conflicts and Alliances in the College Community.- 12. Consulting at Boarding Schools.- 13. Consultation: Two Worlds in a Factory Town.- 14. Staff Consultation in a Public School System.- Special Perspectives.- 15. The Pediatric Perspective.- 16. The Ghetto Child.- 17. Consultation in Disasters-Refugees.- Special Problems.- 18. Consultation and Mental Retardation.- 19. Child Psychiatry Consultation: Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents.- 20. Depressed Children.- 21. Child Psychiatric Consultation Concerning Childhood Psychosis.- 22. Child Abuse: Role of the Child Psychiatrist in Abuse and Neglect.- 23. The Treatment of Cult Victims.

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Book SynopsisThe scene is Britain in the late 40's and early 50's. More specifically, the location is the newly formed Psychology Depart­ ment of the University of London Institute of Psychiatry, Mauds­ ley Hospital. Hans J. Eysenck, then University Reader in Psych­ ology, had an ambitious and bold plan. unheard of for those days, which he was determined to bring to fruition come what may. First, personality was to be mapped out in terms of a small number of operationally defined, measurable dimensions. Next, these di­ mensions would be related experimentally to their as yet to be identified underlying physiological determinants. This research was to lead to a comprehensive model of psychological, social and biological activity which would account for virtually every facet of human functioning. To facilitate this grand scheme, Eysenck gathered around him a carefully selected team of eager young faculty and doctoral can­ didates among whom I had the good fortune to be included, first as a graduate student and then as a full-fledged academic. The guiding model was that of the searching student rather than the unquestioning disciple, and it was this spirit of directed but open­ minded enquiry which guided us in the decades which lay ahead. That Eysenck's aspirations are not fully realized despite many years of intense endeavor does not detract from the intellectual excitement of those times and the impetus given to clinical psychology in the United Kingdom by these remarkable beginnings.Table of Contents1. Classical and Instrumental Conditioning: Principles and Procedures.- Classical Conditioning Paradigm.- Instrumental Conditioning Paradigm.- Conditioning Paradigms: Comparisons and Distinguishing Features.- Experimental Procedures in Classical Conditioning.- Control Procedures in Classical Conditioning.- Rescorla-Wagner Model.- Second-Order Conditioning.- Habituative and Associative Factors.- Environmental and Cognitive Determinants of UCR and CR.- Constraints on Learning.- Preparedness in Classical Conditioning.- 2. Aversive Control of Behavior: Paradigms and Research.- Experimental Procedures.- Operant-Pavlovian Interactions in Aversion Therapy.- Escape Learning: Theory and Research.- Predictable vs. Unpredictable Aversive Stimulation.- Characteristics of an Effective Aversive Stimulus.- Problems and Ethical Issues.- Pain Threshold and Pain Tolerance.- Safety Considerations in Faradic Aversion Therapy.- 3. Screening and Masking Techniques in Aversion Therapy.- Facial Screening: Introduction.- Critical Components of Facial Screening.- Advantages and Limitations of Facial Screening.- Self-Application of Facial Screening.- Visual Screening.- Theoretical Explanations of Facial Screening.- Issues and Guidelines in the Use of Screening.- Sensory Extinction: Introduction.- Advantages of Sensory Extinction.- Limitations of Sensory Extinction.- Reinforcing Function of Self-Stimulation.- 4. Theories of Aversive Control of Behavior.- Classical Conditioning.- Change in Valence or Function of Deviant Stimulus.- Attitude Change.- Cognitive Dissonance.- Incubation of Fear and Cognitive Rehearsal.- State Theory.- Two-Factor Theory.- Biological Theory.- Cognitive Theory.- 5. Personality and Conditionability.- Pavlov’s Theory.- Eysenck’s Personality Classification.- Differences between Pavlov’s and Eysenck’s Classifications.- Strong and Weak Nervous Systems.- Relation of Introversion-Extroversion to Sensory Thresholds and Pain Tolerance.- Reactive and Conditioned Inhibition.- Introversion-Extroversion and Conditionability.- Eysenck’s Biological Theory of Personality.- Sokolov’s Theory of Attention.- Differential Effects of Stimulant and Depressant Drugs on Introverts and Extroverts.- Yerkes-Dodson Law.- References.- Name Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Science of Psychiatry We live in exciting times. Psychiatrists practicing their specialty are beset as never before with news of developments in the field. The conduits of news to the practicing clinician are usually either stories written in the popular medical press such as news circulars and advertisements from commercial concerns, or from de­ tailed scientific articles written for the scientific community. In both forms, the news has been coming thick and fast. The problem encountered most often by practicing psychiatrists and clini­ cians responsible for hospital facilities is integrating this material into a coherent whole, with sufficient technical detail to permit the appropriate development or use of the new tests and procedures in the clinical setting. The two volumes comprising the Handbook of Psychiatric Diagnostic Pro­ cedures represent an attempt to provide a clinically useful review of the current accepted applicability of these tests and procedures, to enable the clinician to properly implement and evaluate the procedures as well as the results obtained.Table of ContentsNeuroendocrine Diagnostic Tests.- 1. Dexamethasone Suppression Test.- 2. Comprehensive Thyroid Evaluation in Psychiatric Patients.- Tests Involving Cns Amine Metabolites.- 3. CNS Amine Metabolites.- Toxicology Evaluation.- 4. Laboratory Procedures Related to the Metals.- Laboratory Evaluation of Treatment.- 5. Plasma Concentration Monitoring of Antipsychotic and Tricyclic Antidepressant Treatment.- 6. Lithium Monitoring.- 7. Blood Level Determinations of Commonly Prescribed Medical Drugs.- 8. Blood Level Monitoring of Antiepileptic Drugs.- 9. Stimulant Challenge Tests.- Laboratory Evaluations in Specific Psychiatric Environments.- 10. Laboratory Evaluation of Newly Admitted Psychiatric Patients.- 11. Psychiatric Diagnostic Procedures in the Emergency Department.

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Book SynopsisThe first volume of this Handbook discussed neuroendocrine diagnostic tests and the diagnostic use of central nervous system amine metabolites. That volume further reviewed the toxicological evaluation of patients and the laboratory evalua­ tion of treatment outcome. It suggested a system for evaluating newly admitted psychiatric patients and dermed the scope of diagnostic procedures available in the emergency department. Volume II focuses on the use and interpretation of electro physiologic and radiologic diagnostic tests in psychiatry and then explores the laboratory evaluation of special groups of patients. The clinical sections of this volume are designed to assist the physician in in­ stituting a proper workup for specific patients and defining tests which will assist them in the differential diagnosis of various psychiatric disorders. Such workups are critical to exclude possible organic disorders which can present with psychia­ tric symptoms. The workup suggested for the various classes of patients will assist the clini­ cian with differential diagnosis, provide base-line information for long-term follow­ up, delineate biological perimeters at the beginning of treatment, protect the pa­ tient from unrecognized cardiac, renal, hepatic, or endocrine disorders which could be adversely affected by the administration of medications, and provide a rational sequencing of workup for particular disorders to insure the most thorough yet cost­ efficient approach to the patient.Table of ContentsElectrophysiologic Diagnostic Tests.- 1. Clinical Electroencephalography as an Assessment Method in Psychiatric Practice.- 2. Sleep Electroencephalography.- 3. Identification of Melancholia Using EEG Studies of Sleep.- 4. Tests of Psychomotor Function.- 5. Evoked Potentials.- 6. Special Electrophysiological Tests: Brain Spiking, EEG Spectral Coherence.- Radiologic Tests.- 7. The Role of X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT).- Laboratory Evaluation for Special Groups of Patients.- 8. The Alcoholic Patient.- 9. The Patient with Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia.- 10. The Provisional Diagnosis of Dementia: Three Phases of Evaluation.- 11. The Comprehensive Evaluation of Cocaine and Opiate Abusers.- 12. Evaluation of the Geriatric Patient.- 13. Diagnostic Approaches to Sexuality in the Medically III.- 14. Laboratory Assessment of the Paraphilias and Their Treatment with Antlandrogenic Medication.- Future Directions.- 15. The Endorphins.- 16. Computerized Psychiatric Practice.- 17. Positron Emission Transaxial Tomography.

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Book SynopsisAn impressive amount of work, experimental, statistical and "observa­ tional" or "phenomenological" has been done in psychiatry during the past 30 to 40 years. Although Sullivan's achievements have placed him in the first rank of psychiatry, some of the work done since he died in 1949 can be assimilated to enchance his achievements. For this reason, I enlisted the aid of Menachem Melinek, M.D., whose wide knowledge of re­ cent and contemporary psychiatric studies is admirably suited to the task of assimilating some of them to Sullivan's theories. PATRICK MULLAHY Acknowledgments The authors wish to acknowledge with gratitude Mrs. Mari Hughes, formerly secretary, Department of Psychology, Manhattan College, for typing the original manuscript. Dr. Robert G. Kvarnes of the Washing­ ton School of Psychiatry, read the original manuscript and contributed several keen criticisms and suggestions for which we are grateful. We wish to express our thanks to the Department of Psychiatry, at Montefiore-North Central Bronx Hospitals for the support in preparing the final manuscript of the book. Robert Steinmuller, Director of Psychiatry at North Central Bronx Hospital was generous with his help. We would like as well to acknowledge the support of the Department of Psychiatry at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center and its Director of Psychiatry, Dr. Harvey Bluestone.Table of Contents1 Sullivan and Freud.- 2 The Totality of Organism and Environment.- 3 The Transition from Infancy.- 4 The Transition from Childhood.- 5 Preadolescence to Maturity.- 6 Dynamisms of Difficult Mental Disorders.- 7 Schizophrenia and Paranoia.- 8 The Manic-Depressive Psychosis.- 9 The Psychiatric Interview.

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Book SynopsisLithium research and therapy needs to be continually re-evaluated on the basis of modern methodological approaches in order to shed new light on the mechanism of action and to improve therapeutic use. This book. based on the proceedings of the "International Meeting on Lithium and Rubidium Therapy" held in Venice from September 30th to October 2nd 1983. is devoted to current trends in the pharmacology and clinical aspects of lithium and of a newly born therapeutic cation. rubidium. The first part of this volume deals with modern trends in behavioural and biochemical approaches to the mechanism of action of lithium. A larger consideration is reserved for lithium therapy from a clinical point of view and includes re-assessment of long-term treatment with regard to serum levels. biological and psychological predictors. side-effects and new therapeutic uses. A smaller section is concerned with some recent clinical studies on rubidium. This volume should be an invaluable aid to all psychiatrists and those who work in the field of research of these pharmacological active metals. G. U. Corsini List of contributors A. ALCIATI L. BELLODI Institute of Clinical Psychiatry Institute of Clinical Psychiatry University of Milan University of Milan Milan Milan Italy Italy R. H. BELMAKER A. AMDISEN Jerusalem Mental Health Center Psychopharmacology Research Unit Ezrath Nashim Aarhus University, Jerusalem Psychiatric Hospital.Table of ContentsI: Introduction and Historical Review.- 1 Recent developments in lithium treatment and research.- 2 Lithium treatment of mania and depression over one hundred years.- II: Mechanism of Action of Lithium and Rubidium.- 3 Some recent and some not-so-recent findings on the behavioural effects of lithium in animals.- 4 Opposite effects of lithium and rubidium on neurohormone-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation in rat brain.- 5 The effect of rubidium and lithium on adenylate cyclase and neurotransmitter receptors.- 6 Does lithium prevent the development of dopamine receptor supersensitivity? Behavioural studies.- III: Clinical Aspects of Long-Term Lithium Treatment.- 7 Critical issues in the evaluation of long-term lithium treatment.- 8 A prospective study of long-term lithium treatment. An interim report.- 9 Lithium dosage and prophylaxis. A double-blind controlled study.- 10 Lithium discontinuation in bipolar illness: a double-blind prospective controlled study.- 11 Lithium treatment in schizoaffective patients.- 12 Static and kinetic study of the RBC/plasma lithium ratio in manic-depressive, schizoaffective and schizophrenic patients in thymic remission: significance for diagnosis and monitoring.- 13 Lithium prophylaxis in major affective disorders: on the specificity and sensitivity of some “new” predictors of treatment outcome.- 14 Practical value of biological and psychological indicators in predicting response to lithium prophylaxis of manic-depressive psychosis.- 15 Outcome to treatment with lithium in affective patients and family history.- 16 Antidepressant-induced switch and outcome to lithium prophylaxis in bipolar patients.- IV: Clinical Aspects of Long-Term Rubidium Treatment.- 17 Rubidium salts in depressed patients. An open pilot study using standardized techniques.- 18 Preliminary results with rubidium in depressed patients.- 19 The use of rubidium chloride in depressive disorders: clinical aspects.- V: New Aspects in Lithium and Rubidium Treatment.- 20 The effect of lithium treatment in humans of psychophysiological increases and decreases in heart rate.- 21 Left ventricular performance following lithium treatment.- 22 Lithium carbonate and granulocyte function during cancer chemotherapy. Preliminary report.- 23 Cancer chemotherapy induced neutropenia: effects of lithium carbonate.- 24 Lithium and rubidium compounds in cluster headache: overview and perspectives.- 25 Lithium therapy in cluster headache. Effect on iris neuro-muscular junction.- 26 Changes in tubular enzymes during acute lithium treatment.- 27 Prophylactic efficacy of carbamazepine in lithium-resistant affective disorders.

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Book SynopsisIn 1977 there were an estimated 1,846,090 patient care episodes in psychiatric hospitals across the United States. The number of patient care episodes in inpatient facilities continues to increase from that measured in 1955 despite the national emphasis on "deinstitutionalization." Yet the nature and focus of psychiatric hospitals, both public and private, have changed dramatically in the past fifty years. No longer are all mentally ill patients placed in distant hospitals that encourage separation from family and community. Many hospitals now work to include the patient's natural support system, and families are increasingly vocal about their right to stay involved with their hospitalized family member. As hospital stays have become briefer, the need to incorporate the family in the treatment process has been recognized. We are witnessing the development of new roles for families with the psychiatric hospital and novel treatment strategies offered by inpatient staff to families. These exciting changes have led to an alteration in the attitudes of mental health professionals as well as an expansion of our knowledge and skills regarding the family of the hospitalized psychiatric patient. This book brings together the works of many of those professionals who have developed innovative and pragmatic clinical and research strategies for these families.Table of ContentsI Clinical Strategies for the Family of the Hospitalized Patient.- 1 Family Treatment of the Psychiatric Inpatient.- 2 An Adolescent Unit’s Focus on Family Admission Decisions.- 3 Strategic Family Therapy in the Prevention of Rehospitalization.- 4 Family Treatment of Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia: The Inpatient Phase.- 5 Multiple-Family Therapy in the Psychiatric Hospital.- 6 Pediatric Hospitalization in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa.- 7 The Family Changes the Hospital?.- II Research Studies.- 8 The Effects of Family Presence and Brief Family Intervention for Hospitalized Schizophrenic Patients: A Review.- 9 Measuring the Effects of Family Involvement on a Psychiatric Inpatient Unit.- 10 Family Reactions and the Career of the Psychiatric Patient: A Long-Term Follow-up Study.- 11 The Patient’s Family and Length of Psychiatric Hospitalization.- III Special Topics.- 12 Alternate Views of “Schizophrenia” and Their Consequences for Therapy.- 13 The Family in the Hospital: Experiences in Other Countries.- 14 Family-Organizational Linkages.- 15 The Family of the Chronic Mentally Ill Patient: Ally or Adversary?.- 16 Family Therapy Supervision on a Psychiatric Inpatient Unit: Implications of an Ecological Epistemology.

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Book SynopsisSince its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May 2013 of its fifth edition, the DSM-5, marked the latest milestone in the history of the DSM and of American psychiatry. In The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel, experts in the philosophy of psychiatry propose original essays that explore the main issues related to the DSM-5, such as the still weak validity and reliability of the classification, the scientific status of its revision process, the several cultural, gender and sexist biases that are apparent in the criteria, the comorbidity issue and the categorical vs. dimensional debate. For several decades the DSM has been nicknamed “The Psychiatric Bible.” This volume would like to suggest another biblical metaphor: the Tower of Babel. Altogether, the essays in this volume describe the DSM as an imperfect and unachievable monument – a monument that was originally built to celebrate the new unity of clinical psychiatric discourse, but that ended up creating, as a result of its hubris, ever more profound practical divisions and theoretical difficulties.Trade Review“The essays in Demazeux’s and Singy’s volume are all about the DSM-5, but they also address many distinct aspects of human life, from research design to moral values, to sexuality, to grief. … the volume–and the intensity of the criticisms it contains–eloquently demonstrates the importance of the DSM to modern life. This in turn proves the importance of the collection, which contributes to our understanding of both the DSM and ourselves.” (Brent M. Kious, Metascience, Vol. 25, 2016)“The present volume of philosophical commentary on this ambitious project offers a range of contributions to the debate about psychiatric nosology, a few of which are truly outstanding. … this volume is recommended reading for specialists and non-specialists alike interested in the problems inherent in constructing any useful taxonomy of mental conditions and particularly for insight into the science, history, and politics that have shaped the current DSM-5.” (Mark J. Sedler, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, August, 2015)“This is a collection of essays from different authors exploring the main problems of the DSM-5. … The purpose is to review and discuss the methodological and philosophical weaknesses, as well cultural bias, in the DSM-5. … one definitely worth checking out if you deal with the DSM at all.” (Brett C. Plyler, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2015)Table of ContentsIntroduction; Steeves Demazeux and Patrick Singy.- Part I. General issues.- Chapter 1. The Ideal of Scientific Progress and the DSM; Steeves Demazeux.- Chapter 2. DSM-5 and Research Concerning Mental Illness; Jeffrey Poland.- Chapter 3. DSM-5 and Psychiatry’s Second Revolution: Descriptive vs. Theoretical Approaches to Psychiatric Classification; Jonathan Tsou.- Chapter 4. DSM-5: The Delayed Demise of Descriptive Diagnosis; Stuart A. Kirk, David Cohen, Tomi Gomory.- Chapter 5. Must Disorders Cause Harm? The Changing Stance of the DSM; Rachel Cooper.- Chapter 6.‘Deviant Deviance’: Cultural Diversity in DSM-5; Dominic Murphy.- Part II. Specific issues.- Chapter 7. Danger and Difference: The Stakes of Hebephilia; Patrick Singy.- Chapter 8. Sexual Dysfunctions and Asexuality in DSM-5; Andrew Hinderliter.- Chapter 9. The Crippling Legacy of Monomanias in DSM-5; John Z. Sadler.- Chapter 10. The Loss of Grief: Science and Pseudoscience in the Debate Over DSM-5’s Elimination of the Bereavement Exclusion; Jerome Wakefield.- Chapter 11. Against Hyponarrating Grief: Incompatible Research and Treatment Interests in the DSM-5; Şerife Tekin.- Chapter 12. RDoC: Thinking Outside the DSM Box without Falling into a Reductionist Trap; Luc Faucher and Simon Goyer.- Chapter 13. DSM-5 and the Reconceptualization of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Anthropological Perspective from the Neuroscience Laboratory; Baptiste Moutaud.

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to provide health care professionals with an overview of the main aspects of recent advances in sleep medicine, with an emphasis on advancing basic science into clinical medicine. It is divided into three main parts. The first part is to cover the basic sleep mechanisms which includes genetics in sleep, and neural and humoral regulation of sleep and wakefulness. The second part focuses on the epidemiology of sleep, and the final part consists of the pathophysiological mechanisms of snoring and sleep apnea and other common sleep disorders as well as the consequences. The content of this book is written by experts and sleep specialists from all over the world and this book aims to optimize the health of individuals by “translating” bench side findings into clinical practice.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Evolving approaches to identifying genetic risk variants for sleep disorders.- Chapter 2. Neurobiology of sleep-wake control.- Chapter 3. Prostaglandins, adenosine and histaminergic system in the regulation of sleep and wakefulness .- Chapter 4.Sleep and Neuronal Plasticity.- Chapter 5. Epidemiology of Insufficient Sleep.- Chapter 6.Social Factors in Insufficient Sleep.- Chapter 7. Sleep Loss and the Unfolded Protein Response.- Chapter 8. Biological and genetic mechanisms of sleepiness in Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease.- Chapter 9.Diaphragm EMG recording and its application in sleep medicine.- Chapter 10. Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia in Patients with OSA.- Chapter 11.Neural injury in models of intermittent hypoxia.- Chapter 12. Narcolepsy and Orexin/hypocretin.- Chapter 13.Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders: Mechanisms and Treatment.

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