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Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justify the practice of locking up people against their will and treating them with a variety of unwanted,...

Many decisions in the legal system and elsewhere depend on predictions of bad behaviors, including crimes and mental illnesses. Some scientists have suggested recently that these predictions can become more accurate and useful if they are based in part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684802855Author Ronald K. SiegalFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 283g

According to a major health survey, nearly half of all Americans have been mentally ill at some point in their lives-more than a quarter in the last year. Can this be true? What exactly does it mean, anyway? What's a disorder, and what's just a struggle...

INVESTIGATING TERRORISM 'How can we be more effective in bringing terrorists to justice in ways that uphold our legal traditions? This book provides crucial clues drawn from highly experienced prosecution and defence lawyers, detectives, security experts...

In this short work, Dr. Szasz takes aim at conventional psychiatry, and at the attendent system of courts, hospitals, and psychiatrists who confine patients against their will. The focal point is a Supreme Court case involving a man forcibly committed to...

In this important new book, Dr. Otto F. Kernberg, one of the world's foremost psychoanalysts, explores the role of aggression in severe personality disorders and in normal and perverse sexuality, integrating new developments in psychoanalytic theory with...

Pregnant Women: Violent Men is written by an experienced midwifery educator and health professional, and by a social scientist and Open University Lecturer who has considerable experience in supporting women who survive violence. Case studies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498296786Author Robert Emmet MeagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595151523Author Judith SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 141mm * 25mm

This book examines the social contexts in which trauma is created by those who study it, whether considering the way in which trauma afflicts groups, cultures, and nations, or the way in which trauma is transmitted down the generations. As Alford...

When Viscount Castlereagh, leader of the House of Commons and architect of the Grand Alliance, committed suicide in 1822, the coroner's inquest could consider only two legal verdicts: insanity or self-murder. Public outrage greeted his burial in...

Trauma and Psychosis provides a valuable contribution to the current understanding of the possible relationships between the experience of trauma and the range of phenomena currently referred to as psychosis. Warren Larkin and Anthony P. Morrison bring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922828200Author Dr Bronwyn Maree WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bronwyn WilsonPublisher Bronwyn WilsonWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981995526Author Todd FinnertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Psychcontinuinged ComPublisher Psychcontinuinged ComWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm)...

This comprehensive work presents a broad range of cases drawn from the clinical experience of authors Kenneth N. Levy, Kristen M. Kelly, and William J. Ray to take readers beyond theory into real-life situations. The authors take a holistic approach by...

COGNITIVE SELF CHANGE "The consensus amongst the leading researchers in the offender treatment area is that the comprehensive and sophisticated clinical methods the authors have derived for offender treatment are unsurpassed. Indeed, they have formed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619492585Author Nellie BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Empire BooksPublisher Empire BooksWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Drawing on rich qualitative data, this book presents a novel way of understanding the drug market-related harm of ‘cuckooing’, providing a theoretically informed account of this increasingly high-profile area.Applying the framework of the ‘risk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615990269Author Jay S. LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Loving Healing PressPublisher Loving Healing PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

This magisterial work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also on specific disorders; examines the thinking on madness of theologians, jurists, and physicians; and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615991709Author Niall McLarenFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Loving Healing PressPublisher Loving Healing PressWeight(grams) 575gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976060031Author Lynn MelvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Melville PublicationsPublisher Melville PublicationsWeight(grams) 474gDimensions(mm)...

The central thesis of Schizotypy: Implications for Illness and Health is both challenging and controversial: that the features of psychotic disorders actually lie on a continuum with, and form part of, normal behaviour and experience. The dispositional...

Ferenczi identified the presence of a child in every analysis or therapy and distinguished between the languages of tenderness and passion in their appropriateness for such work. Using Ferenczi's insights, Robert W. Rentoul draws on and integrates the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743423373Author Paul KarasikFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 371gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807029251Author Lauren SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 964gDimensions(mm) 277mm * 216mm * 27mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593083888Author Gabor MateFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 782gDimensions(mm) 236mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883536015Author Gordon ClaridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint ISHKPublisher ISHK

The first two volumes of Care-Giving in Dementia integrated up-to-date neurobiological information about dementia with specific developments in care-giving. Taking the same multidisciplinary approach, and drawing contributions from leading practitioners,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626548763Author Sander L GilmanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the deliberate damaging of one's own body tissue in the absence of any intent to die. Although reports of this behavior span centuries, reported instances of NSSI have increased dramatically over the last 2 years...

Informative and insightful, this prescient book argues that biosocial criminology is a powerful paradigm for understanding criminal behavior, crucially outlining its nature via nurture perspective, as opposed to nature versus nurture.Examining the core...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865479463Author Brian DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Faber & FaberPublisher Faber & FaberWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879998292Author Rousas John RushdoonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ross House BooksPublisher Ross House BooksWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)...

Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are isolated from the secular community that surrounds them not only physically but by their dress, behaviors, and beliefs. Their relationship with secular society is characterized by social, religious, and political...

The Merry-Go-Round of Sexual Abuse is a valuable guide to identifying, treating, and breaking the cycle of sexual abuse. Based on 30 years of professional experience in treating offenders and survivors of sexual assault and sexual molestation, Dr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934575499Author Judy EndowFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Autism Asperger Publishing Co,USPublisher AAPC PublishingWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419620065Author Angela C Grett CbpFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 136mm *...

It is well known that depression occurs more often in women than in men. It is the most commonly encountered mental health problem among women and ranks overall as one of the most important women's health problems. Researchers have studied depression a...