The Abraham Dilemma: A divine delusion
George Graham
The Abraham Dilemma: A Divine Delusion focuses on the topic of religious delusion - on the disorder's causes, contents, consequences, diagnosis and treatment. The title argues that we ...
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Basaglia's International Legacy: From Asylum to Community
Tom Burns and John Foot (eds)
Italian Law 180 of 1978 is probably the most radical Mental Health Act ever passed. It forbade the admission of any new patients to mental hospitals forthwith and called for the rapid ...
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Drug Use in Prisoners: Epidemiology, Implications, and Policy Responses
Stuart A, Kinner and Josiah D. Jody Rich (eds)
The majority of people who experience incarceration have a history of harmful alcohol, tobacco, and/or illicit drug use. Some discontinue use of these substances while in custody. ...
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Global Mental Health: Principles and Practice
Vikram Patel, Harry Minas, Alex Cohen, and Martin Prince (eds)
The emergence of the discipline of global mental health as one of the most dynamic fields of global health underscores the need for this resource, which covers two major aspects of the ...
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Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health: Psycho-social Implications of the Reshaping of America
Eugenio M. Rothe and Andres J. Pumariega
Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health is a unique book because it explains culture and identity from a developmental perspective, exploring the psychological, social, and ...
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Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care
Robert Feinstein, Joseph Connelly, and Marilyn Feinstein (eds)
This book describes real-world examples and practical approaches for integrating behavioral and physical health services in primary care and some specialty medical environments. Integrated ...
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Integrative Addiction and Recovery
Shahla Modir and George Munoz (eds)
Integrative Addiction and Recovery is a book discussing the epidemic of addiction that is consuming our friends, family, and community nationwide. In 2016, there were 64,000 ...
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Integrative Sexual Health
Barbara Bartlik (ed.) , Geovanni Espinosa (ed.) , Janet Mindes (ed.) , and Andrew Weil
Integrative Sexual Health explores beyond the standard topics in men’s and women’s health, drawing on a very rich and diverse research literature. Books on sexuality typically ...
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The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5® (2 ed.)
Joel Paris
The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5®, Second Edition reviews the history of diagnosis in psychiatry, emphasizing the limitations for classification of our current lack of ...
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Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States
James Trent
Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention—all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history ...
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Lean Behavioral Health: The Kings County Hospital Story
Joseph Merlino, Joanna Omi, and Jill Bowen (eds)
As the largest public healthcare system in the United States, the New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation adopted the principles of the Toyota Production System, or lean, as the ...
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Lost in Dialogue: Anthropology, Psychopathology, and Care
Giovanni Stanghellini
This book will build on and develop the assumption that to be human means to be in dialogue. Dialogue is a unitary concept that will attempt to address in a coherent way three essential ...
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Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy in the Cancer Setting: Finding Meaning and Hope in the Face of Suffering
William S. Breitbart (ed.)
There is an evolution taking place regarding the nature and scope of the clinical goals of psychotherapeutic or counseling interventions in the palliative care setting. Meaning-Centered ...
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Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder
Somogy Varga
The philosophy of psychiatry can be seen as a unique area of research because the nature of the subject matter leads to rather unique methodological challenges. This title is unique in ...
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Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: Phenomenology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment
Christopher Pittenger (ed.)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects approximately 1 person in 40 and causes great morbidity and suffering worldwide. While much about this protean disorder remains unclear, our ...
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Outreach in Community Mental Health Care: A Manual for Practitioners (2 ed.)
Tom Burns and Mike Firn
The last 50 years has witnessed a radical change in the care of the severely mentally ill as asylums have closed and care has moved to the community. Two developments have marked this ...
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Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry: How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortunes (2 edn)
Joel Paris
This book, now revised in a second edition, examines the problem of overdiagnosis in psychiatry, focusing on problems with current diagnostic systems. It shows that diagnosis is not always ...
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Oxford Textbook of Paediatric Pain
Patrick J. McGrath, Bonnie J. Stevens, Suellen M. Walker, and William T. Zempsky (eds)
The Oxford Textbook of Paediatric Pain brings together an international team of experts to provide an authoritative and comprehensive textbook on all aspects of pain in infants, children ...
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Practical Dementia Care (3 ed.)
Peter V Rabins, Constantine G Lyketsos, and Cynthia D Steele (eds)
This book offers a practical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of people with dementia. It has extensive coverage of the behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms that occur in up to ...
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Prescription Drug Diversion and Pain: History, Policy, and Treatment
John F. Peppin, Kelly K. Dineen, Adam J. Ruggles, and John J. Coleman (eds)
Prescription Drug Diversion and Pain provides an interdisciplinary overview of medications used to treat chronic pain, and the benefits and risks that are posed by long-term ...
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