The book surveys the biological, psychological, and psychiatric studies on nine psychosomatic syndromes, draws conclusions about the complex etiology of these syndromes, offers guidelines for diagnosis, and recommends treatments based on research findings.
This workbook provides a concrete structure that enables the chemically dependent adolescent to go through the first 5 of the 12 steps toward recovery. By encouraging the adolescent to answer the questions, write down his or her thoughts, and discuss his or her conflicts contained in this useful workbook, the cognitive-emotional process can begin. ......
A Task Force Report of the American Psychiatric Association
Benzodiazepine Dependence, Toxicity, and Abuse provides clinicians with a review of the available information on the potential hazards of benzodiazepine treatment and offers suggestions for the rational prescription of these medications.
Providing a valuable new tool for practitioners, Experiential Therapies for Eating Disorders is the first text to focus solely on the application of expressive therapies and experiential techniques to the treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
The person with schizophrenia poses a formidable challenge even to the experienced clinician. Bizarre, disordered thought patterns, peculiar, even unintelligible speech and extreme distrust can drastically limit the clinician's ability to conduct therapy. This title offers a fresh perspective on understanding and treating the schizophrenic person.
Explains the revolutionary technique of rational-emotive therapy (RET) and contrasts it with transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy in a devastating analysis of cult therapy.
This book presents the latest data on -- and clinical, ethical, and medicolegal issues pertaining to -- sexual intimacy in the professional relationship. Contributors (including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, clergy, and attorneys) explore the issue of professional incest across the broad spectrum of the helping professions.
The book examines the inner workings of the physician's marriage -- the psychological issues and sources of conflict that emerge in the various stages of marriage and family. The authors share ways to help physicians and their families learn new ways to improve communication, balance the demands of work and family, and grow and change together.
Brings together psychoanalytic papers which shed light on the psychological nature of psychotic states and address aspects of their psychotherapy. This book includes selections from the works of Harold F Searles, Edith Jacobsen, Victor Tausk, Robert C. Bak, Nathaniel J. London, Norman Cameron, and others.
This volume gives psychodynamic psychotherapists a view of how their colleagues actually treat severely disturbed borderline patients and how treatments proceed over the course of several years.
This book provides an account of human development that is particularly relevant to an understanding of psychiatric disorders. In describing the process of physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral development, the contributors emphasize the aspects of development, and examine normal development in relation to implications in clinical pathology.
Beginning with the history of mental health care in the 1840s -- before the advent of organized psychiatry -- this book traces the development of the profession and the subsequent care of its patients. The book covers the impact on psychiatry of historical events such as the Civil War, communist expansion, and the civil rights movement.
