Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology

Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2002-05 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1585620785 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781585620784 Binding: Paperback Product Description: Despite dramatic advances in our understanding of the brain and brain disorders, we still have much uncharted territory to explore in neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology, two rapidly growing disciplines devoted to understanding the behavioral consequences of brain dysfunction and using this information to improve patient care. Download Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology

Cambridge Textbook of Effective Treatments in Psychiatry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press Number Of Pages: 920 Publication Date: 2008-02-25 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 052184228X ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521842280 Binding: Hardcover Product Description: This is a book of psychiatry at its most practical level. It aims to answer the sorts of questions psychiatrists ask on a daily basis. What treatments are available for the condition that I think this patient has? What is the relative value of each of these treatments? Are there any other treatments that I should be considering if a first approach has failed? Is there any value in combinations of treatment? And, can I be sure that the evidence and recommendations I read are free from bias? Treatments_in_Psychiatry.pdf

Psychotherapy with Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Fostering Autonomy through Attachment

Publisher: The Guilford Press Number Of Pages: 198 Publication Date: 2008-02-11 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1593856512 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781593856519 Binding: Hardcover Product Description: Adolescent girls and young women in therapy--even those who genuinely desire change--often are highly ambivalent and difficult to engage. This book provides fresh insights and powerful clinical tools for understanding a young woman's conflict between her attachment and dependence on her parents and her efforts to be autonomous, and how this may play out in seemingly treatment-rejecting behavior. Rich case material illustrates innovative ways to embrace resistance, rather than fighting it, to build a strong therapeutic relationship that can get to the root of self-defeating patterns. psth02.rar

Personality-Disordered Patients: Treatable and Untreatable

Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Number Of Pages: 269 Publication Date: 2006-11-23 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1585621722 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781585621729 Binding: Paperback Product Description: Determining the amenability of personality disorders to psychotherapy -- a patient's capacity to benefit from verbal approaches to treatment -- is important in helping clinicians determine the treatability of cases. Michael Stone here shares the factors he has observed over long years of practice that can help practitioners evaluate patients, stressing the amenability of the various disorders to amelioration. By focusing on which patients are likely to respond well to therapeutic intervention and which will prove most resistive, his book will help therapists determine with what kinds of patients they will most likely succeed and with which ones failure is almost a certainty. Treatable_and_Untreatable.pdf

Essentials of Abnormal Psychology

Publisher: Wiley Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2006-01-30 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471656232 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471656234 Binding: Paperback Product Description: Essentials of Abnormal Psychology provides students and professionals with a concise overview of the major topics in abnormal psychology as well as chapters on the leading categories of disorders such as eating disorders, schizophrenic disorders, personality disorders, and substance-related disorders. This book utilizes the popular Essentials format and makes a perfect companion to primary texts on the topic or a useful study guide. ESOFAP.rar

Schizophrenia 2nd edition

Publisher: WileyBlackwell Number Of Pages: 768 Publication Date: 2003-01-03 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0632063882 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780632063888 Binding: Hardcover Prof. Hirsch and Prof. Weinberger are the admirable international figures in psychiatric research. As the editors, they conjoined the most famous contributors of every subtitle in schizophrenia research. Reading it in 1999, some of the contents seemed a little out of date. However, to consolidate current findings and concepts on schizophrenia, it is not only a textbook but also a historical masterpiece. Next edition of such an encyclopedia on schizophrenia may not be composed until next decade. schiz2.rar

Dementia

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Number Of Pages: 406 Publication Date: 2000-07-18 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471606987 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471606987 Binding: Hardcover Book Description: The third volume in the excellent World Psychiatry Association Series, Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry, compares research evidence and clinical experience concerning controversial issues in the clinical psychiatry of Dementia. Dementia is at present underdiagnosed and undertreated all over the world. Discrepancies in the diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions implemented in the various clinical contexts are very significant. Through comprehensive reviews and accompanying commentaries it will meet the urgent need to explore the current, available research evidence and discuss the various clinical practices occurring at present. 0471606987.rar

Drug Addiction: From Basic Research to Therapy

Publisher: Springer Number Of Pages: 680 Publication Date: 2008-06-18 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0387766774 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780387766775 Binding: Hardcover Product Description: Drug Addiction: From Basic Research to Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of physiological, biochemical, and genetic pathways underlying drug addiction, and resultant efforts to develop novel treatment strategies dealing with drug addiction and other CNS disorders where the neurophysiological processes overlap, such as treatment of pain. Based on the AAPS-NIDA Frontiers in Science Symposium “Drug Addiction: From Basic Research to Therapies,” this volume, representing focuses on the translation of fundamental addiction research to a variety of treatments, bringing together scientists with widely ranging expertise in synthetic and computational chemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and neuroscience with researchers in drug discovery and development, drug targeting, and quantitative therapeutics. Download 0387766774.rar

Dementia (WPA Series in Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry)

Publisher: Wiley Number Of Pages: 412 Publication Date: 2003-02-21 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470849630 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470849637 Binding: Paperback Product Description: Dementia is most frequently associated with aging and is, at present, under-diagnosed and under-represented all over the world. Discrepancies in the diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions implemented in the various clinical contexts are significant and consequently, the need for a review of the currently available research evidence and a discussion of different clinical practices is urgently needed. This book provides a much needed review of the diagnostic procedures and the implementations of therapeutic interventions. * Provides accompanying commentaries by an outstanding line up of contributors * Covers developments in diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, economic evaluation and quality improvement * Provides an unbiased and reliable reference point Download Dementia_pdf_0470849630.rar

Treating Health Anxiety and Fear of Death: A Practitioner's Guide

Publisher: Springer Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 2006-11-02 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0387351442 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780387351445 Binding: Hardcover Product Description: Never has our culture been more aware of personal and global health hazards, from both within and without. While most people may feel some anxiety in this regard, some have an unbearable sense of dread that prevents them from functioning. Chronic health anxiety—heightened fears of illness, disease, and death—is a central feature of hypochondriasis, of course, but can also present as depression, generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, and other diagnoses. Download 0387351442.rar