Psychiatry

Dementia is an illness that raises important questions about our own attitudes to illness and aging. It also raises very important issues beyond the bounds of dementia to do with how we think of ourselves as people - fundamental questions about personal...

This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry. The contributors aim to define this exciting field and to highlight the philosophical...

This is a defence of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death. By maintaining statutes that determine that voluntary death is not legal, Thomas Szasz believes that our society is forfeiting one of its basic freedoms and causing the...

Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, Laing aims to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. He also offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.About the AuthorR.D. Laing, one of the best-known psychiatrists of...

This new book, drawing on the author's distinguished career in front-line psychiatric practice, describes how to bring patient and prescriber together in an active partnership whereby there is better understanding of the positive and negative elements of...

Mastering cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) for the common, yet difficult-to-treat aspects of severe mental illness has now been made easier with Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness. A proven, effective treatment for patients with severe...

You've read your textbook and your course notes. Now you need to apply your knowledge to real life clinical situations.The problem-solving approach of Core Clinical Cases guides you to think of the patient as a whole, rather than as a sequence of...

Enjoy a fun day out at the pool in this bright and colourful lift-the-flap children's board book. Perfect for reading aloud and developing early word recognition.Book InformationISBN 9781913639587Author Sally GarlandPage Count 14Imprint Catch a...

Robert Coles is a psychiatrist with a novelist's sensibilities. ""Of course everything I come up with,"" he says, ""novelists have known beforehand.""These twenty-three interviews selected from hundreds that Coles...

Is psychoanalysis a type of literature? Can telling 'stories' help us to get at the truth?Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between...

Stimulant drugs are widely used in the treatment of ADHD in children and adults. Hundreds of studies over the past 60 years have demonstrated their effectiveness in improving attention span, increasing impulse control, and reducing hyperactivity and...

Much like the patients on which it focuses, the field of pediatric mental health continues to grow and develop. Among other advances, the body of clinical research and the number of empirically supported treatments have grown, evaluation practices have...

Single Session Thinking and Practice teaches readers how to implement single session approaches by encouraging practitioners and clients to collaborate in making the most of every encounter. Single session/one-at-a-time approaches are applicable in a...

Ideal for any on-call professional, resident, or medical student, this best-selling reference by Drs. Carol A. Bernstein, Molly E. Poag, and Mort Rubinstein covers the common problems you'll encounter while on call without direct supervision in the...

Command hallucinations are a particularly distressing and sometimes dangerous type of hallucination about which relatively little is known and for which no evidenced based treatment currently exists. In A Casebook of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for...

One of the strengths of this book is that each chapter is written by a prominent specialist in their field. They particularly highlight points of clinical relevance and come from both academic and clinical psychology backgrounds. Many have worked with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733462372Author Kelsey DaughertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Family Psychological PressPublisher Family Psychological PressWeight(grams)...

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice is a groundbreaking book that provides an overview of the field from both theoretical and clinical viewpoints. The editors and chapter authors -- some of the field's foremost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892818976Author Robert MastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Park Street Press,U.S.Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Normal Child and Adolescent Development: A Psychodynamic Primer presents a complete picture of mental development, informed by contemporary research and psychodynamic thinking. Dr. Gilmore and Dr. Meersand have taught human development to psychiatric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911623724Author Ornella CorazzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint RCPsych/Cambridge University PressPublisher RCPsych/Cambridge University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939149862Author Xaviant HazeFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited Press

This book provides extensive information on pedophilia (sexual interest in the prepubescent body age), hebephilia (sexual interest in the early-pubescent body age) and sexual offenses against children, i.e., the various forms of child sexual abuse,...

In recent years there has been a major move within psychiatry to foster a deeper understanding of the conceptual underpinnings of mental health. This new approach has drawn in equal measure on both the humanities and medicine. Essential Philosophy if...

This book presents evidence-based guidance on the prevention and management of aggression and violence by patients with mental disorder. It provides a comprehensive overview of best practice and will be of practical use to a wide range of mental health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572561311Author Robert FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint NaddPublisher Nadd

"Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that all emergencies, major incidents and disease outbreaks can have substantial mental health consequences, and it has demonstrated the proven need for additional care for populations in the wake of disasters. This book...

This title combines the many schools of thought on psychotherapy into one reader-friendly guide that coaches psychotherapists through the various techniques needed as the field expands. Unlike any other book on the market, this text considers all of the...

An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Joel Paris examines areas where analysis needs to develop a stronger scientific and clinical base, and to integrate its ideas with modern...

The Social Determinants of Mental Health aims to fill the gap that exists in the psychiatric, scholarly, and policy-related literature on the social determinants of mental health: those factors stemming from where we learn, play, live, work, and age that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525539985Author James GreenblattFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Arson and other types of deliberate firesetting have major human and financial costs across the globe. People with mental disorder are disproportionately involved and mental health practitioners are frequently required to assess, treat and manage this...

The Textbook of Medical Psychiatry was written for the wide range of clinicians who grapple with the diagnostic and treatment challenges inherent in this clinical reality: medical and psychiatric illnesses do not occur in isolation from one another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353243Author Bruce E. LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

This updated volume provides a clinical based overview of the assessment and treatment of ADHD in adults by a clinical researcher with extensive experience. Its practical focus allows each chapter to answer common questions encountered within clinical...

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...

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...

The author, who worked alongside R.D. Laing in Glasgow, seeks to put the record straight. From the contemporary perspective, Laing is admired as a pioneer of ideas and a charismatic and prominent anti-psychiatrist. Isobel Hunter-Brown reveals, however,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615373260Author Holly CrispFormat HardbackImprint American Psychiatric Association PublishingPublisher American Psychiatric Association...