Abnormal psychology

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“Accessible and enjoyable.

Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization.

Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are isolated from the secular community that surrounds them not only physically but by their dress, behaviors, and beliefs.

In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism.

A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders.

A philosophical account of the structure of experience and how it depends on interpersonal relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion.

Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement.

An exploration of what it means to think about psychiatric disorders as “real,” “true,” and “objective” and the implications for classification and diagnosis.

Investigations of specific moral dysfunctions or deficits that shed light on the capacities required for moral agency.

From pioneering clinician-researchers, this book provides crucial guidance for treating co-occurring concerns that virtually all therapists are likely to encounter--and many feel ill equipped to handle.

Die Entwicklung eines Fallkonzepts, also eines Verständnisses davon, welche Faktoren bei einer Klientin oder bei einem Klienten zur Entstehung und Aufrechterhaltung einer psychischen Störung bzw.

Dieses Buch unternimmt etwas vollkommen Neues, denn es bezieht die Welt der menschlichen Urbilder, die Archetypen, in die hypnosystemische Beratung ein.

In a convenient large-size format, this book presents the first research-based, comprehensive program designed to support high school students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Rich in clinical examples, this book offers a fresh perspective on the roles of shame and guilt in psychological distress and presents a step-by-step framework for treatment.

Now revised and updated, this widely used text comprehensively reviews theories of addiction to give students and professionals a multidisciplinary foundation for clinical practice.

Warum nur hypnotherapeutisch oder nur systemisch arbeiten, wenn sich doch beide Ansätze wunderbar kombinieren lassen?

Addiction and trauma are two of the most common and difficult issues that people face.

A growing body of evidence supports the benefits of high-quality parent interventions for building social and communication skills in 0- to 5-year-olds with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Now in its second edition, this practical handbook assesses global developmental delay and other neurodevelopmental disorders in young children.

Mindfulness has emerged as a valuable component of treatment for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The leading text and go-to practitioner resource on psychiatric rehabilitation is now in a thoroughly revised third edition, bringing readers up to date on current ideas, findings, and evidence-based best practices.

Grounded in the updated Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Prevention and Treatment Guidelines of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), the third edition of this definitive work has more than 90% new content.

This full-color clinicians manual is the authoritative guide to implementing the Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation (JASPER) intervention.

Die Neubearbeitung des Buches liefert einen fundierten und praxisorientierten Leitfaden für die Durchführung zieloffener verhaltenstherapeutischer Gruppentherapien im stationären und ambulanten Setting.

Millions of people suffer from various types of anxiety-related disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, social phobias, panic disorder, agoraphobia, OCD, PTSD, and others.

A thorough examination of a misunderstood condition.

Bipolar disorder is about the wildest of euphorias and the deepest of depressions.

Practical help for the millions who suffer.

Clear answers on correctly diagnosing and living with bipolar disorder.

One of the world's most respected psychiatrists provides a much-needed new evolutionary framework for making sense of mental illnessWith his classic book Why We Get Sick, Randolph Nesse established the field of evolutionary medicine.

Traditional analyses of domestic battery often point to the batterer's need for power and control to explain patterns of violent behavior.

Fully revised to reflect changes in the field, this collection of essays by psychotherapists who specialize in the treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia explains in accessible and humane terms how the treatment process works and demonstrates strategies that lead to recovery.

In her latest book, Dr.

Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities.

This book discusses what Jacques Lacan's oeuvre contributes to our understanding of psychosis.

A comprehensive and thematic exploration of representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction, this book is relevant to those with interests in literary studies and is a vital read for psychiatric clinicians and professionals who are interested in how literature can inform and enhance clinical practices.

This book deconstructs the pathologizing category of 'sadomasochism' in order to account for the 'lived realities' of consensual 'SM' play, emphasizing the connection between the corporeal and the political in contemporary consumer cultures.

In this surprising book, Allan V.

It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity.

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero-the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence-has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political hegemony.

Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today-but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety.

Psychic trauma is one of the most frequently invoked ideas in the behavioral sciences and the humanities today.

Kristine Stiles has played a vital role in establishing trauma studies within the humanities.

A fully revised and updated edition of this unique and authoritative reference The award-winning A Guide to Treatments that Work , published in 1998, was the first book to assemble the numerous advances in both clinical psychology and psychiatry into one accessible volume.

Continuing significant advances in the understanding of brain-behavior relationships have necessitated a new edition of this highly acclaimed text.

This volume, originally published in 1992 by Basic Books, provides for the first time a comprehensive state-of-the-art description of therapeutic integration and its clinical practices by the leading proponents of the movement.

Extreme Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia assembles a stellar group of researchers to discuss the origins, development, and outcomes of extreme fear and shyness.

In Moody Minds Distempered philosopher Jennifer Radden assembles several decades of her research on melancholy and depression.