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The editors of this powerful reference summarize our current understanding of the complex psychological, behavioral, and social responses to disaster, and present a compelling case for intensifying our focus on delivery and intervention efforts.

This book shows how the principles and emerging findings of psychoneuroendocrinology can inform modern clinical practice and lead to breakthroughs in science and practice. Meticulously detailed sections are categorized by endocrine system, with sections on clinical and laboratory assessments and on the role of stress in susceptibility to disease.

This guide examines the unique therapeutic value of group psychotherapy. Written for the clinician in need of concise, clinically relevant information, this book discusses how the patient-patient and the patient-therapist interactions in a group setting can affect changes in maladaptive behavior.

The book is for women who are considering whether to have an abortion, women who have had an abortion and want to do more thinking about it, and relatives, mates, lovers, friends, and health professionals who want to help the women they care for make the best possible choices for themselves.

Essentials of Neuroimaging for Clinical Practice demystifies the uses of these powerful techniques. An ideal clinical guide for doctors and residents, it offers clear, concise, and practical advice on how to use today's most advanced applications in the diagnostic workup of patients.

Written by clinicians who work with infants and children and their families every day, this reality-based approach addresses the most common and important problems in infant psychopathology, covering models of intervention from pregnancy through infancy, attachment issues, and transgenerational themes.

In this compact, richly detailed volume, 13 distinguished contributors show how CBT's primary focus of identifying and changing maladaptive patterns of information processing and related behaviors is fully compatible with biological theories and treatments and can be combined with pharmacotherapy to optimize treatment results in clinical practice.

Mental health professionals will find this book to be timely and necessary-for their patients, but also for the families and communities who rely on their professional judgment in assessing and managing potentially violent individuals. The editors lend the breadth and depth of their experience to this volume.

The Clinical Manual of Drug Interaction Principles for Medical Practice is an exceptionally practical, thoroughly up-to-date resource to help psychiatric clinicians understand and avoid potentially dangerous interactions and provide the highest standard of patient care.

Noted French psychoanalyst Francois Roustang examines both historical psychoanalytic relationships and associations in France today to show the destructive power of discipleship and how it related to the new theory of psychosis. This book is a paperback reprint of the classic text originally published in 1982.

These eight important and fascinating essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist Eric Kandel provide a breakthrough perspective on how biology has influenced modern psychiatric thought. Complete with commentaries by experts in the field, this book reflects the author's evolving view of how biology has revolutionized psychiatry and psychology.

Compiles the conclusions of more than 30 internationally recognised experts who each carefully examine the link between personality traits and psychopathology. This reference examines the relationship of personality traits with psychopathology from several interlocking perspectives - descriptive, developmental, etiological, and therapeutic.

The book provides new and experienced clinicians with generic models for the development of efficient and effective interactive groups able to deliver a wide variety of treatment options. It offers a comprehensive examination of the potential of group psychotherapy and an appreciation of time management in its utilization.

It offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends. The chapters on families give voice to the experience of BPD and offer the hope that family involvement in treatment will be beneficial to everyone.

Psychiatry and the Cinema explores this complementary relationship from two angles, psychiatrists who have studied the movies and movies that have depicted psychiatry. This second edition has updated this definitive text with a discussion of new trends in psychoanalytically oriented film theory, and an expanded list of movies is analyzed.

This compact guide's 15 densely informative chapters-complete with glossary, indexes, illustrations, and references-not only provide clinicians with an updated introduction to the concepts and techniques of psychodynamic psychotherapy but also convey the excitement and usefulness, as well as the difficulties, of this complex field.

Written to help remedy today's dearth of up-to-date, research-based literature, this unique volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of 17 experts who focus on the psychiatric perspective of this tragic cause of infant death.