Psychiatry

Although stalking is an age-old phenomenon, it is only recently receiving due attention.

In this Handbook, philosophers from around the world address the metaphysics, epistemology, and value of psychoactive (mind-altering) drug use.

In keeping with the growing emphasis on psychiatry in the medical school curriculum, problem-based learning (PBL) offers students a unique patient-centred, multidisciplinary approach to study and the synthesis of knowledge.

A practical, how-to-guide on choosing and delivering evidence-based psychological therapies to adults in later life.

Wir wollen möglichst alt werden, verdrängen aber das Alter gleichzeitig aus unserem öffentlichen und persönlichen Bewusstsein.

This book provides a comprehensive, state of the art overview that covers both the diagnosis and the treatment of dual disorders - joint psychiatric and substance use disorders associated with a worse outcome and disease progression than single psychiatric or addictive disorders.

The Fragmented Personality introduces a new model for diagnosing and caring for patients with personality disorder.

Clinical Manual of Neuropsychiatry focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the full spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as those conditions that have significant neuropsychiatric components.

This compelling volume provides a broad and accessible overview on the rapidly developing field of social neuroscience.

Cannabis, marijuana, pot, ganja - it goes by many names -- is by far the most widely used illegal substance, and accounts for more arrests than any other drug.

Two key challenges face mental health practitioners: making the correct psychiatric diagnosis and choosing the most appropriate treatment option.

Lawton Chiles GovernorofFlorida, 1991-1998 Social Change, Public Policy and Community Collaborations: Training Human Development Professionalsfor the Twenty-First Century is more than the name of the Third National Applied Developmental Science Conference; it is more than the name of a book prepared from the proceedings of this conference.

Will the person you love ever get better?

Underlying the design of the Handbook of Psychopharmacology is a prejudice that the study of drug influences on the mind has advanced to a stage where basic research and clinical application truly mesh.

Der großzügig bebilderte Band gibt einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Geschichte der deutschen Psychiatrie.

One of the fascinations of psychiatry is that it is amenable to many different approaches.

There is a growing literature in neuroethics dealing with cognitive neuro-enhancement for healthy adults.

The previous 2016 edition, "e;E-Mental Health,"e; shed light on the application of telecommunications technologies to deliver mental health services remotely to people in often underserved locations due to geographic distance, and cultural or language differences.

A fascinating text that addresses the clinical and educational challenges of treating psychiatric patients from a truly multidisciplinary perspective using a case-based format, Approach to the Psychiatric Patient: Case-Based Essays is the only book of its kind and an indispensable addition to the mental health practitioner's library.

Assessment and Staging of Care for Dementia: The IDEAL schedule and its user manual is a unique resource containing a global clinical staging schedule for dementia alongside essential, practical information on how to use it.

Thisbook is a comprehensive resource on psychotropic medications, detailing thelatest methods for defining their characteristics, their use in differentpatient populations, and drug-drug interactions; an important collection ofinformation forclinicians, students, researchers, and members of thepharmaceutical industry alike.

Intriguing new findings on how genes and environments work together through different stages of life take the spotlight in this significant collection.

This book advances the development of phenomenological psychopathology and demonstrates its applicability to a spectrum of mental disorders.

A review of connections between genes, brain, and behavior for a range of genetic disorders, considering lifespan and treatment issues.

The purpose of this book is to demystify the evaluation and management of common psychological disorders and psychosocial issues which impact all realms of medical and mental health practice.

This volume reports the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Workshop held in Castelvecchio Pas coli, Italy, from August 28 - September 1, 1989.

The definition of narcissism can be a moving target.

Cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) may affect nearly half of all cancer survivors and can persist for years after completing cancer treatment.

This instructive clinical resource has given thousands of clinicians and students essential skills for evaluating infants through adolescents with any type of mental health issue.

Quatre annees apres la premiere edition de ce Manuel de psychiatrie, il a paru necessaire d'en proposer une nouvelle version, mise a jour et assez largement enrichie.

The new and updated edition of this book explains the key steps in planning and executing diagnostic test accuracy studies in dementia, serving as an introduction to the topic with clear explanations of difficulties and pitfalls.

The heroic story of the invention of antidepressants is a key part of the psychopharmaceutical turn.

This volume provides a highly integrated view of attention-related events, taking the reader from individual molecular interactions through the regulation of neuronal circuits to our higher order capacity for selective amplification of particular information.

In this compelling text, choreographer and psychotherapist Beatrice Allegranti invites the reader into the transdisciplinary Moving Kinship project.

Das Buch stellt Methodik und Technik der Mentalisierungsbasierten Gruppenpsychotherapie (MBT-G) an Beispielen der Gruppenleitung, der Gruppenstruktur, der Gruppenzusammensetzung in der Praxis, in Klinik und Tagesklinik dar.

Sexual cases are inherently complex and sometimes controversial presenting the practitioner with a multitude of procedural and legal challenges.

Adolescent Identity Treatment: An Integrative Approach for Personality Pathology is a ground breaking title that provides general and specific clinical strategies to help adolescents who lack an integrated identity.

This book is a synthetic review of the epidemiology, causes, prevalence, interventions, demography, and associated risk factors of illicit-drug-related mortality.

This book is a critical edition of the autobiographical case studies used by the Austro-German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing between 1883 and 1901.

Gambling Disorder: A Clinical Guide to Treatment is a systematic, eloquent, and exhaustive examination of the etiology, psychopathology, neurobiology, and treatment of the disorder, which was reclassified for DSM-5.

Discovery Through Activity provides a compendium of ideas, resources and practice evaluations that will inspire practitioners to be even more imaginative and to customise their own Recovery Through Activity programmes to meet the specifi c needs of participants.