Psychiatry category: 2250 books
The Therapeutic Interview in Mental Health
A Values-Based and Person-Centered Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Emotions and values are considered the keys to understanding peoples' experiences and actions within the world they inhabit. The traditional symptom-led clinical interview is frequently criticised for ignoring the narrative of a patient's experience in favour of ticking-off symptoms that can be reduced...
by Nicoladie Tam
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
“Pharmacology: An Introduction” is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to introduce the basic principles and concepts in pharmacology, drug interactions and drug-binding.
It is a study guide...
In Search of Madness
Schizophrenia and Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
Over the last two decades, scientific articles on schizophrenia have doubled in number, and prophecies of breakthrough have appeared and receded. The result is a scattered and confusing mass of evidence that is difficult to evaluate. How much progress has really been made? Are the neurological causes...
Neurophilosophy of Consciousness, Vol.Vii
The Unexpected Transition from Idealism to Realism
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The information explosion we have witnessed in the last two decades has unexpectedly accelerated the relentless, forward evolutionary process of complexity as experienced in the real existential reality as narrated from human to human in the language semantic accounts of our communications. Sometimes...
Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy
Understanding and Addressing the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
From a leading researcher and practitioner, this volume provides an innovative framework for understanding the role of spirituality in people's lives and its relevance to the work done in psychotherapy. It offers fresh, practical ideas for creating a spiritual dialogue with clients, assessing spirituality...
Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy
How to Talk with People about Their Spiritual Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Drawing on narrative, postmodern, and other therapeutic perspectives, this book guides therapists in exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Mental Health and Pain
Somatic and Psychiatric Components of Pain in Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This book proposes a didactic approach to the different aspects of pain in mental health. The various chapters cover the myths, neurophysiology, perception, measurement and management of pain in mental health. The most common problems, including mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety, somatoform disorders...
Creativity and Mental Illness
The Mad Genius in Question
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Is there really a thin line between madness and genius? This book provides a thorough review of the current state of knowledge on this age old idea, and presents new empirical research to put an end to this debate, but also to open up discussion about the implications of its findings.
Feeling Good
The Science of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
All human beings have spontaneous needs for happiness, self-understanding, and love. In Feeling Good: The Science of Well Being, psychiatrist Robert Cloninger describes a way to coherent living that satisfies these strong basic needs through growth in the uniquely human gift of self-awareness. The...
by Peter Schmidt, Ann D. Witte
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Our interest in the statistical modeling of data on the timing of recidivism began in the mid 1970s when we were both junior members of the eco nomics department at the University of North Carolina. At that time, methods of analyzing qualitative and limited variables were being developed rapidly...
The Soul of Shame
Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
The Gospel Coalition Top Books of 2015 in Faith and WorkHearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Applied Theology, Basic Christian Living, Whole Life Discipleship We're all infected with a spiritual disease. Its name is shame. Whether we realize it or not, shame affects every aspect of our personal...
Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment
A Cognitive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Practicing neuropsychologists and students in clinical neuropsychology must increas ingly cross disciplinary boundaries to understand and appreciate the neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and neuropharmacological bases of cognition and behavior, cur rent cognitive theory in many different domains...
The Healing Power of Play
Working with Abused Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This book describes how therapists can both facilitate constructive play therapy and intervene in posttraumatic play to help children who have been traumatized by abuse or neglect achieve a positive resolution. Traditional techniques of play therapy are reviewed for their application to this population....