Psychiatry

This Handbook outlines in detail the features and challenges of rural and remote mental health service delivery and pragmatic considerations to address these, to ensure people in less populated areas receive an equivalent quality of service to their city-dwelling counterparts.

This book focuses on various aspects of gender and mental health.

This book comprehensively discusses the background to the passing of India's revolutionary Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, offering a detailed description of the Act itself and a rigorous analysis in the context of the CRPD and the World Health Organization (WHO) standards for mental health law.

This book focuses on the sleep-related disorders in Parkinson's disease (PD), demonstrating that they are among the most common non-motor manifestations of PD and have a significant negative impact on quality of life.

This book discusses approaches used by NGOs in formulating and implementing mental health care in the community in the context of high treatment gap, insufficient public expenditure on health, human resource shortages, heterogeneity of communities as well as cultural beliefs in India.

This book showcases current thinking on social work in the field of mental health and illness from a bio-ecological and spiritual framework reflecting the transition in mental health care from institution to community.

This book presents a longitudinal study of cultural influence on psychiatric disorders, from late imperial China to contemporary China, drawing on both reviews and lab results to do so.

This book provides practical information on how to use various psychotropic drugs in clinical practice, focusing on their mechanisms of action on receptors and enzymes in the brain.

This Guide to Psychiatry - Singapore Perspective is the 16th revision of the original series of 'Guide to Psychiatry' which has been revised and updated every two to three years since the early 1980s.

This book challenges the validity of all traditional theories of psychopathology, particularly with regard to schizophrenia.

This book is the fourteenth volume in the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series and is essential for Chinese medicine practitioners interested in treating unipolar depression using Chinese medicine.

This book provides the most recent knowledge on almost all key aspects of the health impact of tobacco smoking.

This book, in two volumes, focuses on contemporary issues and dilemmas in relation to depression.

This essential reference volume in the field of suicidology brings forth leading-edge conceptualizations of suicidal behaviour by including emerging trends and recent research advances in the field across the globe.

This book reviews all the important aspects of treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders, covering issues such as definitions, clinical aspects, neurobiological correlates, treatment options, and predictors of treatment response.

The book presents three Japanese psychotherapeutic approaches, Morita, Naikan, and Dohsa-hou, in the chronological order of their development, giving a thorough account of both their underlying concepts and practical applications.

This book consolidates current knowledge in the field and discusses psychiatric disorders among the elderly, while bridging the gap between clinical practice and the socio-cultural contexts.

This book discusses psychiatric disorders among women in a manner that is relevant to clinical practice and keep cultural and social realities in perspective.

This book unravels the mental health challenges of the migrants and the socio economic and cultural conditions that bear on the mental well being.

This book highlights the best educational practices for the professionals dealing with mental health and illness.

This book presents state of the art knowledge aimed at understanding the clinical and socio-cultural factors that affect mental health of children and adolescents.

This book looks into the mental health challenges in the rural world, the socio economic and cultural factors bearing on them and the best clinical practices to deal with them.

This book highlights a broad range of issues on mental health and illness in large cities.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women's experiences within mental health services, demonstrating the need for a radical paradigm shift in how women's distress and experiences are understood.

Providing a framework for treating substance use disorders (SUDs) in office-based psychotherapy, the second edition of this trusted work has been updated throughout and features two entirely new chapters.

Necrophilia: Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects is the first text that deals with the scientific aspects of necrophilia from a multidisciplinary point of view.

Con obras de pintores que se inspiraron en la locura o que sufrieron trastornos mentales, este libro demuestra que los patrones asociados a los desórdenes mentales han persistido a lo largo del tiempo.

Mit innovativer Diagnostik praktischen Nutzen optimieren!

Este libro actualiza el conocimiento sobre los comportamientos autolesivos con fines suicidas, en relación con la frecuencia, las posibles causas biológicas, psicológicas, sociales, culturales y políticas; es decir, aborda el suicidio desde una visión amplia, no reduccionista, y considera la complejidad del fenómeno.

Fühlst du dich oft isoliert und sehnst dich nach tiefgehenden Verbindungen?

Este libro sobre madres y padres con orientaciones sexuales diversas en Colombia integra la teoría y evidencia disponible con los datos que aportó un estudio exploratorio realizado con nueve participantes que se animaron a compartir su vida con el equipo de investigación.

This book is the fourteenth volume in the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series and is essential for Chinese medicine practitioners interested in treating unipolar depression using Chinese medicine.

The 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.

Since 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.

This book describes contemporary clinical practice in the application of neurosurgical methods to the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

This volume is the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN2013) held in Sweden in 2013.

Asia is by far the largest continent in the world in terms of area with population exceeding 3.

This is the first comprehensive two-volume collection on anhedonia, a disorder that played an important role in psychopathology theories at the beginning of the twentieth century.

This is the first comprehensive two-volume collection on anhedonia, a disorder that played an important role in psychopathology theories at the beginning of the twentieth century.

This volume examines trajectories of drug use among ethnic minority youth in the United States with a focus on African Americans and Hispanics.

The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and predicts that by 2030 the epidemic of depression raging across the world will be the single biggest contributor to the overall burden of disease of all health conditions.

Our purpose in assembling the papers in this collection is to introduce readers to studies of normal and abnormal behavior in Chinese culture.

Perspectives on the Classification of Specific Developmental Disorders is an up-to-date review of the controversy surrounding the classification of such disparate disorders as reading, spelling, writing, and language disorders.

Mental health issues are a growing concern in our modern Western society.

The book aims to review knowledge on the disorders of eating behaviour and body composition in some of the non-primate higher animals and to relate these to similar conditions in humans.

Fredrik Svenaeus' book is a delight to read.

psychiatric treatment approaches there are opportunities for trial and error, exploration and reconsideration, revision of treatment approach, and correc- tion of errors.

When my colleagues and I began the task of assembling this volume, several difficult questions arose: For whom were we writing?