Psychiatry category: 2250 books
Attachments: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis
The selected works of Jeremy Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
For three decades Jeremy Holmes has been a leading figure in psychodynamic psychiatry in the UK and across the world. He has played a central role in promoting the ideas of John Bowlby and in developing the clinical applications – psychiatric and psychotherapeutic – of Attachment Theory in working...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In psychiatry there is no sharp boundary between the normal and the pathological. Although clear cases abound, it is often indeterminate whether a particular condition does or does not qualify as a mental disorder. For example, definitions of subthreshold disorders and of the prodromal stages of diseases...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The idea for this book developed during the course of several discussions among the editors while we were working together as staff scientists in the laboratories of the Clinical Neuro science Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. It was a happy coincidence that the three of us, child...
by Andrew Weil
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Integrative Medicine is an emerging discipline that not only bridges the existing disciplines of psychiatry psychology, but provides a scientifically-based framework that synthesizes the rest of physiology, biochemistry and other health dimensions such as social support and spirituality, which collectively...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The third edition of this award-winning textbook has been revised and thoroughly updated. Building on the success of the previous editions, it continues to address the history and practice of forensic psychiatry, legal regulation of the practice of psychiatry, forensic evaluation and treatment, psychiatry...
Psychiatry in Practice
Education, Experience, and Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Psychiatry in Practice: Education, Experience, and Expertise provides detailed advice and useful tips for early career psychiatrists, and all others who wish to enhance their practical psychiatry skills. Each chapter is written by prominent early career psychiatrists from around the world, offering...
Standard Electroencephalography in Clinical Psychiatry
A Practical Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
This book provides a concise overview of the possible clinical applications of standard EEG in clinical psychiatry. After a short history, the book describes the physiologic basis of the EEG signal, then reviews the principles of EEG in terms of technical backgrounds and requirements, EEG recording...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
The field of psychiatry is evolving rapidly specifically in the areas of classification of many psychiatric disorders, psychopharmacology and psychotherapeutics. The new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-5 which was introduced in 2013 forms the basis of the new classification...
Study Guide to Geriatric Psychiatry
A Companion to The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Study Guide to Geriatric Psychiatry is a question-and-answer companion that allows you to evaluate your mastery of the subject matter as you progress through The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, Fifth Edition. The Study Guide is made up of approximately 255 questions...
by M. Levi
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The novice in psychiatry requires a skeletal framework which he can clothe progressively with more detail and sophisticated understanding. Without structure the naive in the subject must fail to orientate through to a clearer conceptualization of key and relevant issues in psychiatry today. To allow...
Liberation by Oppression
A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Originally called mad-doctoring, psychiatry began in the seventeenth century with the establishing of madhouses and the legal empowering of doctors to incarcerate persons denominated as insane. Until the end of the nineteenth century, every relationship between psychiatrist and patient was based on...
International Handbook of Psychiatry
A Concise Guide for Medical Students, Residents, and Medical Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This handbook will be a concise guide to important topics in psychiatry with an international focus. It constitutes a précis of the field of psychiatry with emphases on the therapeutic approach to the patient and on the proper diagnosis of major psychiatric disorders.
All psychiatric diagnoses...
The History of Reason in the Age of Madness
Foucault’s Enlightenment and a Radical Critique of Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The History of Reason in the Age of Madness revolves around three axes: the Foucauldian critical-historical method, its relationship with enlightenment critique, and the way this critique is implemented in Foucault's seminal work, History of Madness.
Foucault's exploration of the origins of...
Study Guide to Preventive Medical Care in Psychiatry
A Case Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Study Guide to Preventive Medical Care in Psychiatry: A Case Approach is an indispensable companion to Preventive Medical Care in Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. Like the primary text, the study guide was written by experts in the field -- many with dual training in psychiatry and medicine...