Psychiatry

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the cutting edge scientific evidence regarding the role of immune system in the pathogenesis and treatment of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.

This work explores and discusses the ethical dilemmas clinicians face in everyday forensic psychiatry practice.

This updated and revised second edition of "e;Alcohol and Tobacco"e; reflects the new ICD 11 and DSM V classifications and provides comprehensive descriptions of new therapeutic approaches, outlining the different interactions between personality, environment and the effects of the respective substance.

This book draws on the author's experience in conducting pragmatic test accuracy studies on screening instruments for dementia/mild cognitive impairment.

This book explores medical nonadherence to treatment and management of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan.

This book highlights the importance of investigating for ADHD in adults with attention difficulties, poor memory and executive function impairments.

The book begins by covering the general and clinical challenges that are unique to Muslims, drawing from an internationally, ethnically, and intergenerationally diverse pool of experts.

This casebook tackles the common psychiatric illnesses that physicians experience during these early stages of their careers.

This book provides a unique tool for approaching cranio-vertebral junction (CVJ) surgery.

This book aims to help identify pre-existing adaptive traits and positive perspectives in resident trainees, while challenging those that are less adaptive by building a formal curriculum for medical education that focuses on the humanistic aspects of medicine.

The book provides a new theory of well-being designed to integrate many disparate concepts of well-being, such as subjective well-being, personal happiness, mental well-being, emotional well-being, psychological well-being, hedonic well-being, social well-being, life satisfaction, domain satisfaction, and eudaimonia.

Patients with psychocutaneous disease may present to multiple professionals to seek care.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the diagnosis, management and treatment of the psychiatric comorbidities encountered in adolescents and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

This book examines 23 case examples of the most common comorbid presentations of sleep and psychiatric disturbances from a reader-friendly, digestible approach.

The book provides a comprehensive reference on the neurobiological understanding of behaviour, how behaviour is regulated by the brain, and how such behaviours in turn influence the brain.

This volume reviews the known neurobiology of depression and combines classic data on antidepressant treatments with modern theory on the physiology of depression.

This authoritative, updated and expanded title serves as the gold-standard resource to assist physicians, clinicians, and scientists in developing effective and satisfactory careers in academic medicine.

This book is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth century Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

This book traces the historical postcolonial journey of four generations of Jamaican psychiatrists challenging the European colonial 'civilizing mission' of psychiatric care.

This book tackles the most common challenges that medical students experience that lead to burnout in medical school by carefully presenting guidelines for assessment, management, clinical pearls, and resources for further references.

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.

This book provides clear and concise guidance for clinicians when they encounter a patient with psychosis, starting with the medical work-up to arrive at a diagnosis and ending with the comprehensive care for patients with established schizophrenia.

For hundreds of years, psychology has looked into the dysfunctions and symptoms of the mind.

This book is the first to dissect the factors contributing to burnout that impact women physicians and seeks to appropriately address these issues.

This book provides a unique overview on the most recent developments in initially diverse areas of behavioral genomic research that now start to intertwine to provide more detailed insights into the complex nature of behavior in health and disease.

This book aims to explore the evidence supporting the therapeutic community (TC) modality as a uniquely effective approach to care of individuals living with opioid use disorder and other addictions, and also to identify salient mediators of improved outcome, including long-term treatment and removal from the opioid-associated environment.

This volume strives to give oncologists and other medical practitioners a thorough picture of the oncology patient.

The book covers important topics in the psychiatric genetics (PG) field.

This book integrates the concepts of big data analytics into mental health practice and research.

This book explores the issue of violence in detail, taking into account the role of contextual factors, as well as the epidemiology, risk factors and clinical aspects of violence related to the main mental disorders.

This book offers a guide to better understanding models of workplace mental health, as well as best practices for mental health professionals, employee assistance groups, employers and employees alike.

A real eye-opener, this riveting anti/critical psychiatry book is comprised of original cutting-edge dialogues between Burstow (an antipsychiatry theorist and activist) and other leaders in the "e;revolt against psychiatry,"e; including radical practitioners, lawyers, reporters, activists, psychiatric survivors, academics, family members, and artists.

This volume explores the unique psychiatric needs of active and former military personnel and offers clinical pearls for the optimal delivery of care for these individuals.

This book serves as a tool for general psychiatrists, medical students, residents, and fellows looking for a clinically relevant and high-yield overview of addiction psychiatry in preparation for their board exams - or for everyday clinical practice.

This book is a practical resource that will support the delivery of holistic mental health interventions in the primary and community care setting for older people.

This comprehensive resource covers a range of women's health issues and their intersection with neurologic and psychiatric disease.

This book is the first to systematically describe the key components necessary to ensure successful implementation of Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) across mental health settings and non-mental health settings that require behavioral management.

This book is a psychobiography on the life of Viktor Frankl and a unique exploration of his life from a positive psychology perspective.

This book examines how video game mechanics and narratives can teach players skills associated with increased psychological well-being.

This book discusses how counselling, a profession known for diverse and innovative practices, has recently been influenced by scientific, marketplace, and administrative developments corresponding with a medicalized focus on psychiatric diagnoses and related evidence-based treatments.

Over the course of the last decade, political and mental entities at large have embraced global mental health: the idea that psychiatric health is vital to improved quality of life.

Psychedelic therapies are gaining traction as potential treatments for a wide range of indications, but the structure and delivery of psychedelic therapies are a sharp departure from more traditional models of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for psychiatric and other medical disorders.

It has been almost forty years since Norman G.

The book comprises biographical notes, of about 1000 words each, with a portrait photo, of 90 influential figures of the famous prewar Viennese school of neuropsychiatry, appearing together for the first time in a single volume.

This revised and updated second edition provides a practical and structured overview of some of the most commonly used and easily available cognitive screening instruments applicable in the outpatient clinic and bedside setting.

This book describes theory and techniques of empathic communication, normalization and de-escalation procedures for the management of aggressive or violent patients in clinical critical settings'.

This manual takes a multidisciplinary approach to neurological disorders in the elderly.

This textbook provides a detailed resource introducing the subdiscipline of mental health informatics.

This extensively revised edition is an essential reference for physicians involved in the diagnosis, referral and treatment of the thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS).

This significantly revised fourth edition provides a practically orientated guide to interactions associated with antiseizure medications.