Psychiatry

Is free will just an illusion? What is it in the brain that allows us to pursue our own actions and objectives? What is it about this organ that permits seemingly purposeful behaviour, giving us the impression we are free? This resource takes a journey into the brain to examine what is about known voluntary behaviour, and why it can go wrong. ...Less

Antipsychotic long-acting Injections provides a synthesis and broad picture of the place of LAIs in current clinical practice, and looks at both their advantages and disadvantages. ...Less

Autism is an emerging area of basic and clinical research, and has only recently been recognized as a major topic in biomedical research. Approximately 1 in 100 children are diagnosed as autistic, so it is also an intense growth area in behavioral and educational treatments. Financial resources have begun to be raised for more comprehensive research and an increasing number of scientists are becoming involved in autism research. In many respects, autism has become a model for conducting translational research on a psychiatric disorder. This text provides a summary of all current knowledge related to the behavioral, experiential, and biomedical features of the autism spectrum disorders including major behavioral and cognitive syndromology, common co-morbid conditions, neuropathology, neuroimmunology, and other neurological correlates such as seizures, allergy and immunology, gastroenterology, infectious disease, and epidemiology. ...Less

Autonomy and Mental Disorder explores the nature and value of autonomy with reference to mental disorder, reflects on instances of mental disorder where autonomy is apparently compromised, and offers a systematic discussion of the underlying presuppositions of the present autonomy debates. ...Less

How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This resource seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and about the nature and aims of scientific medicine. ...Less

The Casebook of Clinical Geropsychology describes current best practice in managing complex cases involving common mental health issues in later life in the field of psychology concerned with the psychological, behavioral, biological, and social aspects of aging. ...Less

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry provides an up-to-date, evidence-based approach to practical clinical issues and its comprehensive multidisciplinary perspective, and covers all aspects of developmental psychology, behavioural and emotional disorders, types of therapy and prevention, with a special emphasis on developmental considerations and on ways in which physical health and psychological problems interact. ...Less

The Confabulating Mind provides an in-depth analysis of an extraordinary and controversial subject and re-traces the history of confabulation and false memory, and explores its causes, anatomical basis, and mechanisms. ...Less

This resource brings together philosophers and psychiatrists to explore the conceptual issues raised by this increasingly common illness. Drawing on a variety of philosophers, the authors explore the nature of personal identity in dementia, showing how the lives and selfhood of people with dementia can be enhanced by attention to their psychosocial and spritual environment. ...Less

Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice presents an overview of discursive perspectives in therapy, along with an account of their conceptual underpinnings. ...