Pathological Psychology category: 903 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The Origins of Schizophrenia synthesizes key findings on a devastating mental disorder that has been increasingly studied over the past decade. Advances in epidemiology, translational neuroscience technology, and molecular and statistical genetics have recast schizophrenia's neurobiological nature,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Developmental Pathways to Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders provides essential understanding on how disruptive behavior disorder (DBD) is characterized, its early markers and etiology, and the empirically-based treatment for the disorder. The book covers features and assessment of...
by Lidia Slesar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
In the Eastern world, the positive mind belongs to a spiritual horizon. For westerners, it is a technique. In the Eastern world where it originated, Vedanta, the positive mind, is a spiritual journey encrypted in insightful stories, rich in content and filled with symbols. These symbols can be absorbed...
by Stephanie M. Woo, Carolyn Keatinge
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
A versatile reference text for developing and applying clinical psychopathology skills
Designed to serve as a trusted desktop reference on mental disorders seen across the lifespan for mental health professionals at all levels of experience, Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders Across...
Scared Sick
The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
The first years of human life are more important than we ever realized. In Scared Sick, Robin Karr-Morse connects psychology, neurobiology, endocrinology, immunology, and genetics to demonstrate how chronic fear in infancy and early childhood- when we are most helpless-lies at the root of common diseases...
Child Anxiety Disorders
A Guide to Research and Treatment, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Childhood anxiety disorders represent one of the most common psychological disorders found among the general population. They can be serious, distressful, and functionally impairing, so much so that there has been an explosion of interest in their treatment, primarily from pharmacological and cognitive-behavioral...
by Theodore Millon, Carrie M. Millon, Rowena Ramnath
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A revision of the leading textbook on personality disorders by renowned expert Theodore Millon
"Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives."
-Theodore Millon
Exploring...
Playing Sick?: Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome Munchausen by Proxy Malingering and Factitious Disorder
Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome, Munchausen by Proxy, Malingering, and Factitious Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Taken from bizarre cases of real patients, Playing Sick? is the first book to chronicle the devastating impact of phony illnesses--factitious disorders and Munchausen syndrome--on patients and caregivers alike. Based on years of research and clinical practice, Playing Sick? provides the clues that...
La evaluación del Mobbing
Cómo peritar el acoso psicológico en el ámbito forense
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Para todas las personas que sufren mobbing resulta crucial una buena evaluación que les permita entender el problema y mantenerse estables. Pues quienes acosan esperan siempre desestabilizar emocionalmente al máximo a sus víctimas, para después presentar el efecto emocional que producen como la...
Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence
A Neuropsychological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This text presents a comprehensive overview of the psychopathological disorders of childhood and adolescence from a brain-based perspective. Based upon the highly respected Handbook of Pediatric Neuropsychology, this text covers all of the major pediatric disorders described in the DSM-IV-TR, while...
Barriers to Loving
A Clinician's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Barriers to Loving is an intriguing exploration of the role of sexual love over the course of life. Beginning with the mental health professions’ avoidance of the topic, Levine proposes a compendium of love’s pathologies by reorganizing what is familiar to clinicians into the barriers that limit...
Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents
A Guide to Evaluation and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents provides an innovative perspective on developmental disorders in youth, one focused on embracing and working with the "messiness" and many variables at play in child and adolescent development. The volume’s approach is aligned with...
by Kirk Heilbrun, Thomas Grisso, Alan Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 19 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular...
by Adam Weishaupt
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
There are two types of human being - “wolves” (aggressive, assertive dominants who are determined to get what they want) and “dogs” (timid, domesticated, submissives, continually at the mercy of the wolves). Capitalism is a wolf ideology. Christianity, Islam and Judaism are dog religions -...