Psychiatry Books
Nadd Diagnostic Manual-Intellectual Disability-2
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£85.50
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Nine Dimensions of Madness: Redefining Mental
Book SynopsisIn a book that reframes the mental health debate, Robert L. Gallon challenges the widely-held notion that mental disorders are medical diseases. Drawing on his extensive experience as a psychologist who has worked with thousands of patients, he argues that there are no objective indicators of mental disorders and therefore no way of drawing a distinct line between people who have them and people who don''t. He outlines an alternative to the disease model defined by nine dimensions of dysfunction that encompass the range of human dysfunctions typically classified as mental disorders. He explains the origin of these problems, not as chemical imbalances and genetic abnormalities, but as the complex interaction of biological, psychological and social factors, called the Biopsychosocial model. Gallon explains the history of psychiatry and how it came to develop a medical model that codifies mental disorders in the psychiatric bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), now in its fifth edition. He demonstrates how, in 1950s and 1960s when the miracle psychiatric drugs came on the market, it was to the great economic advantage of both pharmaceutical companies and psychiatrists to describe people''s problems in the language of medicine. His alternative to this disease model suggests descriptive types--Reality Misperception, Mood Dysfunction, Anxiety, Cognitive Competence, Social Competence, Somatoform Dysfunction, Substance Dependence, Motivation and Impulse Control, and Socialization Dysfunction--that we can construct to discuss the kinds and severities of problems people experience. These are not discrete abnormalities, but are sorts of dysfunction that can be placed on dimensions of dysfunction. Table of Contents Part I History of Madness 1. Introduction and Some Definitions 2. How madness became Medical 3. The Rise of Psychiatric Diagnosis 4. An Alternative Model Part II Dimensions of Madness 5. Reality Misperception 6. Mood Dysfunction 7. Anxiety 8. Cognitive Competence 9. Social Competence 10. Somatoform Dysfunction 11. Substance Dependence 12. Motivation and Impulse Control 13. Socialization Dysfunction Part III Treatment and Other Issues 14. What is Mental Health Treatment? 15. The Future
£18.00
Temple University Press,U.S. Psychiatry and Behavioral Science: An
Book SynopsisEasy-to-read, unique format text combines introductory psychiatry content with board-style review questions written for first and second year medical studentsTrade Review"Psychiatry and Behavioral Science is a well crafted, simply written, comprehensive review of evidenced-based psychiatric theory and practice. Edited by two leaders in psychiatric education--one of whom, David Baron, is an internationally acclaimed psychopharmacologist--it provides not only medical students but also all health professionals regardless of subspecialty or years of experience a comprehensive review of the state of the art of psychiatry. The charts and references to critical recent contributions to the literature provided throughout the volume coupled with multiple-choice review exams at the end of each chapter make it particularly useful for preparation for board and recertification examinations. I recommend it to all both within the medical profession as well outside of it to read and enjoy." —Andrew E. Slaby, MD, PhD, MPH,, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York University and New York Medical CollegeTable of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: The Journey of Life The Early Years of Childhood; The Elementary and Teenage Years; The Young Adult; The Middle Years and Aging; Human Sexuality Section 2: Life's Vicissitudes Stress and Coping; In Sickness and In Health; Substance Related Disorders; Interpersonal Violence; SuicideSection 3: Healing and The Physician The Medical Student and the Physician; The Clinical Encounter; Major Psychiatric Disorders and MedicineSection 4: Our World Social and Cultural Issues; Health Policy and Economics
£44.65
Berrett-Koehler Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's
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£17.99
Fonthill Media LLc Abandoned Asylums of the Northeast
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£21.24
Baraka Books Still Crying for Help: The Failure of our Mental
Book SynopsisA 32-year-old man diagnosed with mental illness puts an end to his life. Questions spring to mind. Could he have been saved? What health services did he get? Were they sufficient? Helpful? Empathetic? What led to the tragedy? How can it be avoided in the future? Is our mental health system up to modern challenges? Why is it taboo to talk about psychosis, schizophrenia, suicide? Have antipsychotics developed over the past 70 years helped? Or are they just another straitjacket to keep the mentally ill out of the way?Ferid Ferkovic, the author's son, committed suicide a few days after being refused admission to the psychiatric ward of a Montreal hospital. From the very first symptoms until his tragic end, Ferid and his family dealt with vague and changing diagnoses, antipsychotics with devastating side effects, insensitive and non-empathetic health care professionals, and a shocking lack of information about external resources. They quickly learned that their opinions and ideas were simply unwelcome. For Sadia Messaili, the suicide of her son, who immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of 12, is the starting point in this moving and challenging quest for truth about our failing mental-health system, justice, and above all better ways to rekindle hope for people suffering mental illness and for their families.'Ferid's death was not the end,' says Sadia Messaili. 'He has fought through me, and the fight is not over!'Trade Review[Messaili] describes an environment that is coercive, punitive, and shaped to cater to doctors’ egos rather than patients’ needs. Instead of being listened to, Ferid [Messaili’s son] is drugged into submission… those who have tried to navigate the labyrinthine and under-resourced mental health system will find validation in [her] words." —Anne Thériault, Quill & Quire"This is an important book for those that are on both sides of the mental health equation. It shows what a grieving parent goes through (“We grieve twice” she tells us) as they come up against a system that just does not work." —James Fisher, The Miramichi Reader"Messaili details how her son’s needs went unmet by Montreal’s mental-health establishment… [her] prose is clear and direct… Still Crying for Help raises an urgent voice in the ongoing debate about life, death, and mental health." —Shawn Syms, Subterrain
£23.70
The University of Akron Press Thick Description and Fine Texture: Studies in
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£19.50
Rutgers University Press Global Mental Health: Latin America and
Book SynopsisGlobal Mental Health provides an outline of the field of mental health with a particular focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. The book details evidence-based approaches being implemented globally and presents ongoing state of the art research on major mental disorders taking place in Latin America, including work being done on understanding Alzheimer’s, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, and other psychoses. While supporting the initiative for building capacity of care in low income countries, the book warns about some of the potential risks related to the abuse of psychiatry, using examples from the past, focusing on early 20th century Spain.Trade Review“This global health collection is wide-ranging topically and geographically. New works from South America are a welcome counterbalance to available sources. Remarkably fresh sourcebook of broad interdisciplinary interest.” -- Janis H. Jenkins * Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Director, Center for Global Mental Health, UCSD *This innovative book reviews what is known while telling the story of efforts to fill gaps in services and science in global mental health in Latin America and Spanish-speaking groups. While reviewing epidemiology and services research, they describe recent issues including even political abuses, and new studies highlighting growth of this field. -- Kenneth Wells * Director of UCLA Semel Institute Center for Health Services and Society *Table of ContentsA brief review of global mental health: challenges, developments, and needs / Stanley Nkemjika, Javier I. Escobar, and Humberto Marin Looking at cultural aspects of global mental health: The culturally infused engagement model in Latin American and Asian populations / Miwa Yasui and Kathleen J. Pottick The abuse of psychiatry globally: A focus on a little-known historical example from Francoist Spain / Ethan Pearlstein and Javier I. Escobar Task-shifting strategies in Latin America: The key role of primary care health agents in mental health policy and research in northern Argentina / Maria Calvo, Gabriel de Erausquin, Mariana Figueredo Aguiar, Eduardo Padilla, and Javier I. Escobar Genetic research on chronic, severe mental disorders in the Paisa population in Latin America: A review of past and current research / Carrie E. Bearden, Carlos Lopez Jaramillo, and Javier I. Escobar A brief rejoinder and future projections / Javier I. Escobar
£127.30
Rutgers University Press Ties That Enable: Community Solidarity for People
Book SynopsisTies that Enable is written for students, providers, and advocates seeking to understand how best to improve mental health care – be it for themselves, their loved ones, their clients, or for the wider community. The authors integrate their knowledge of mental health care as researchers, teachers, and advocates and rely on the experiences of people living with severe mental health problems to help understand the sources of community solidarity. Communities are the primary source of social solidarity, and given the diversity of communities, solutions to the problems faced by individuals living with severe mental health problems must start with community level initiatives. “Ties that Enable” examines the role of a faith-based community group in providing a sense of place and belonging as well as reinforcing a valued social identity. The authors argue that mental health reform efforts need to move beyond a focus on individual recovery to more complex understandings of the meaning of community care. In addition, mental health care needs to move from a medical model to a social model which sees the roots of mental illness and recovery as lying in society, not the individual. It is our society’s inability to provide inclusive supportive environments which restrict the ability of individuals to recover. This book provides insights into how communities and system level reforms can promote justice and the higher ideals we aspire to as a society.Trade Review“Ties that Enable provides an excellent qualitative complement to the quantitative research on recovery and mental illness. The authors’ detailed accounts of client relationships and experiences are excellent.” — Fred E. Markowitz, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University "Scheid and Smith shed light on the ways that, over time, changes in policy and trends in mental health care have actually left people stranded in 'the community.' This is a welcome and unique addition to the work on people with serious mental illness, and I enthusiastically look forward to seeing, using, and citing it."— Kerry Dobransky, author of Managing Madness in the Community: The Challenge of Contemporary Mental Health CareTable of ContentsPreface 1 The Current Impasse over Mental Health Care 2 Looking Back: Reflections on the Reality of Community-Based Mental Health Care 3 Being a “Right Person”: Social Acceptance in a Faith-Based Program 4 Doing the “Best” We Can: Developing Social Relationships and Overcoming Isolation 5 Us and Them: Confronting Recovery in the Face of Marginalization 6 Going Backward: Are We Doomed to Repeat the Failures of the Past? 7 Working toward Community Solidarity and Social Justice Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£23.99
Brepols N.V. Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease
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£999.99
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Childhood Trauma in Mental Disorders: A Comprehensive Approach
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a comprehensive overview of childhood trauma, considering the psychopathological definition and its neurobiological implications as well as its impact on different psychiatric disorders. The focus on childhood trauma rather than that occurring in adulthood is important due to its general “neuro-psyco-socio” and its specific biological implications, since trauma during childhood impacts directly on neurodevelopment. It has been suggested that early life stress increases vulnerability to psychiatric disorders; however, the exact mechanisms of this association are not yet completely understood. Although childhood trauma could be considered too unspecific to be an important risk factor for individual psychiatric disorders since it seems to occur across the board, it impacts differently on different psychiatric disorders, and it can modulate their clinical expression. Therefore, the assessment of early trauma needs to be included in the clinical evaluation of patients with psychiatric disorders. The volume will be an invaluable tool for psychiatrists, helping them to select suitable pharmacological, psychotherapeutic and rehabilitative treatments.Table of ContentsPART I. GENERAL Chapter 1. Introduction on Childhood Trauma in Mental Disorders, A Comprehensive Approach.- Chapter 2. The Concept of Childhood Trauma in Psychopathology: Definitions and Historical Perspectives.- PART II. NEUROBIOLOGY. Chapter 3. Neuroimaging and Cognition of Early Traumatic Experiences.- Chapter 4. Perinatal Mental Health and Childhood Trauma.- Chapter 5. Electroencephalography and Childhood Trauma.- Chapter 6. Interaction Between Genes and Childhood Trauma on the Outcome of Psychiatric Disorders.- Chapter 7. Childhood Trauma, Attachment Patterns, and Psychopathology: An Evolutionary Analysis.- PART III. NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS. Chapter 8. Childhood Trauma in Bipolar Disorders.- Chapter 9. Childhood Trauma in Depressive Disorders.- Chapter 10. Childhood Trauma in Psychiatric Disorders: Childhood Trauma in Psychoses.- Chapter 11. PTSD During Childhood, Childhood Trauma, Childhood Maltreatment, and How They Relate to Adult PTSD.- Chapter 12. Childhood Trauma and Personality Disorder.- Chapter 13. Childhood Trauma in Psychiatric Disorders: Childhood Trauma and Substance Dependence.- Chapter 14. Childhood Trauma in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.- Chapter 15. Childhood Trauma in Eating Disorders.- Chapter 16. Childhood Trauma and Dissociative Disorders.- Chapter 17. Trauma in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Autism, Intellectual Disability, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.- Chapter 18. Neurobiological Basis of Childhood Trauma and the Risk for Neurological Deficits Later in Life.- PART IV: SOCIAL AND THERAPEUTIC IMPLICATIONS. Chapter 19. Childhood Trauma and Stigma.- Chapter 20. Treatment of Childhood Trauma: Pharmacological Approach.- Chapter 21. Childhood Trauma related Interventions: Treatment at Different Stages Across the Lifespan.
£94.99
Kohlhammer Schizophrenie
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£60.00
Kohlhammer Gesundheit Im Unternehmen: Psychosoziale
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£35.00
Kohlhammer Soziale Psychiatrie: Grundlagen, Zielgruppen,
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£40.68
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Psychiatrie Und Gesellschaft: Psychiatrische
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£86.09
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Die Psychoanalytikerin Lou Andreas-Salomé: Ihr
Book SynopsisLou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) begegnete zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts zwei bedeutenden Protagonisten sehr unterschiedlicher Geistesströmungen, die sich der Erforschung von subjektiven Innenwelten widmeten: Sigmund Freud mit seiner neuen Wissenschaft der Psychoanalyse und Rainer Maria Rilke mit seiner Philosophie eines Innerlichkeitskosmos. Von beiden Gedankenwelten zutiefst berëhrt, entwickelte Lou Andreas-Salomé eine eigene Synthese. Anders als Freud, fër den das Unbewusste als ein Reservoir fër Verdrängtes und somit potenziell Pathologisches galt, betrachtete Andreas-Salomé gerade diese Innenanteile als Quelle fër Kreativität und Weiterentwicklung. Den Trieb verstand sie nicht als etwas den Menschen primär Bedrängendes, dem er ausgeliefert sei, sondern eher als ein Begehren nach dem Anderen, als eine Sehnsucht nach Beziehung. Gerade hierdurch sah Lou Andreas-Salomé intrapsychische Entwicklungsprozesse induziert. Somit ist sie nicht nur als eine Schëlerin Freuds, sondern als eine Weiterdenkerin psychoanalytischen Gedankenguts zu betrachten. Ihre Auffassungen von Beziehung und ihr Einfordern des Intuitiven und Spirituellen als einer erweiterten Dimension des Psychischen finden sich heute aufgegriffen in der Bindungs- und Psychotherapieforschung und auch in der Diskussion um Mentalisierungsprozesse.
£29.10
V&R unipress GmbH Nicht 1% Schizophrene: Risiken, Einflussfaktoren,
Book SynopsisWährend psychiatrische Lehrbücher, Lexika und pauschalisierende Texte noch immer behaupten, dass weltweit durchschnittlich 1 % der Menschen schizophren erkranken, widerlegt Florian Langegger diese Aussage anhand neuer wissenschaftlicher Daten. Denn die neuere Forschung erkennt und bestätigt, dass eine Vielzahl genetischer Varianten und Umwelteinflüsse verändernd auf Anatomie und Funktion des Gehirns und auf das Befinden von Menschen einwirken und zu den klinischen Bildern führen, die wir uns angewöhnt haben unter dem Etikett Schizophrenie zu subsumieren. Vermutlich ist keine andere Krankheit, was ihre Entstehung, Diagnostik, Symptomatik, persönliche und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung und ihren Verlauf betrifft, so sehr von ihrem geographischen, klimatischen, diätetischen, hygienischen, gesellschaftlichen, familiären und geistigen Kontext abhängig wie die Zustände, die unter Schizophrenie zusammengefasst werden. Recent research recognizes and confirms, that there is a multitude of genetic variations and environmental influences modifying anatomy and function of the brain and mental states of individuals, leading to clinical phenotypes we have gotten used to subsume under the label schizophrenia. There is probably no other disease, concerning its origin, diagnosis, symptoms personal and sociologic meaning and course, so much depending on geography, climate, diet, hygiene, social, familiar and mental, spiritual and intellectual context, as the states that are summed up under the term ''Schizophrenia''.
£54.21
V&R unipress GmbH 150 Years of Psychiatry at Gottingen University:
Book SynopsisThe eventful history of one of the oldest Psychiatry in Germany
£43.41
V&R unipress GmbH Psychotherapie als soziale Praxis
Book SynopsisNowadays, psychotherapy is usually understood as a part of medicine. In the past, however, mental health care was not interpreted in terms of medical treatment alone. Philosophers and priests, as well as all those who assumed responsibility in their respective communities, also cared for the salvation of the soul of those entrusted to their care. Despite all the new treatment possibilities and concepts that enormously enrich todays psychotherapy, this limited understanding also leads to an impoverishment, not only in theory but also in practice. Thomas Nölle attempts to place psychotherapy in a larger context than just the medical model, expanding its understanding against its socio-cultural history and current background. According to him, it is best understood as a social practice.
£30.15
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Recarga tu pila Recharge Your Batteries
£15.36
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Urgencias psiquiátricas: Principios y práctica
Book SynopsisEl campo de la psiquiatría de urgencias es complejo y variado, e incluye, entre muchos otros, elementos de atención en medicina general, de urgencias y de traumatología, así como conceptos legales, políticos, sociales, burocráticos, de salud mental y de abuso de sustancias y adicción.Urgencias psiquiátricas. Principios y práctica reúne la evidencia clínica más actualizada sobre la atención psiquiátrica urgente con enfoque en diferentes subespecialidades y que a la par aborda elementos de psicología, derecho, ética médica y salud pública. Los autores, líderes en sus campos y con amplia y reconocida experiencia, ofrecen guías de tratamiento, opiniones, evidencia y casos de estudio en toda la obra. La segunda edición, completamente actualizada, cubre el diagnóstico y la atención de los padecimientos psiquiátricos más importantes a los que hará frente el personal de salud en departamentos de medicina de urgencias o bien, durante el ejercicio clínico cotidiano.
£135.87
Ovid Technologies Psiquiatría de bolsillo
Book SynopsisPsiquiatría de bolsillo es una referencia desarrollada por residentes de psiquiatría y dirigida a médicos residentes de otras especialidades, a estudiantes de medicina y a profesionales de la salud que busquen profundizar sus conocimientos sobre el diagnóstico y el abordaje terapéutico de los trastornos y enfermedades mentales más comunes. Su contenido hace énfasis en la atención psiquiátrica basada en evidencia, desde el encuentro inicial con el paciente y su entrevista, hasta su diagnóstico y plan de tratamiento.Esta primera edición basa su contenido en la evidencia más reciente sobre farmacología, psicoterapias y terapias somáticas para los trastornos más comunes que enfrenta el médico psiquiatra. Incluye aspectos de atención del paciente que a menudo son específicos para el psiquiatra, sin olvidar las situaciones en las que interactúa directamente con el ámbito del sistema legal, como las evaluaciones de imputabilidad y aptitud.
£61.72
DEBATE Las palabras de la bestia hermosa
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£22.07
Herder & Herder Sobre La Pobreza de la Psiquiatria
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£28.35
