Psychiatry

Evidence from two highly regarded three-decade NIMH follow-up studies of schizophrenia and other psychoses, conducted by Courtenay Harding and her ...

Clients with mental health conditions are often diagnosed and treated using a strictly medical model of diagnosis, with little input from the clien...

Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in...

Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in...

This groundbreaking book explores the psychodynamics and socio-politics of the forensic therapeutic milieu, addressing some of the most difficult a...

This professional text covers every aspect of Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), from science to services, from the most disabling Kanner's syndrom...

Patients in psychiatric care can behave in ways that can be alarming for staff, and difficult to respond to. The authors of this practical and imag...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a widely used non-invasive brain stimulation technique. It represents an exciting new frontier in neuros...

This new volume in Stahl's Case Studies series presents the continuation of Dr. Schwartz's previous successful collection of psychopharmacology cas...

When Sally Kirk's son, Will, was diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), she did everything she could to understand his condition and to ...

Our understanding of the biological bases to the autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) is advancing rapidly. Over 80 genetic conditions have now been ...

Adolescence is typically fraught with problems, even under optimal conditions. And when chronic illness is added to the picture, medical and relate...

Clinicians on the front lines of neuropsychiatry require a resource that is eminently practical, as well as comprehensive -- one that provides crit...

SBAs, EMQs & SAQs in the SPECIALTIES provides a broad range and style of questions, not only for medical students preparing for their final exa...

Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental ...

The author applies modified versions of pre-modern philosophy (including Aristotle and Aquinas) to psychiatry, arguing that the work of the Aristot...

The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there...

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age: Souls in the Machine reframes the pop-culture milieu of the current state of mental illness and ...

Over recent decades, attachment theory has come to be seen as fundamental to understanding not only childhood development and how people survive an...

Saliva as an alternate diagnostic fluid to blood is currently the focus of much attention worldwide as the horizons of saliva-diagnostics have expa...

Psychiatry suffers a lot of criticism, not least from within its own scientifically founded medical world. This book provides an account of mental ...

Selected as a Doodys Core Title for 2023! The #1 choice for more than 35 years for those involved in the care of adolescents and young adults, Nein...

This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder to argue that medical understandings of disability need their...

The Psy complex governs us all by inscribing, diagnosing and interfering in our lives. This volume takes historical, sociological and psychological...

Interest in techniques to control the brain and thereby improve its function has surged, yet how realistic are these expectations and what are the ...

Prozak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultural shift in how people interpret and expre...

Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United...

Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United...

A challenging reappraisal of the history of antipsychotics, revealing how they were transformed from neurological poisons into magical cures, their...

Over the last three decades, researchers have made remarkable progress in creating and testing family-focused programs aimed at fostering the cogni...

This book is a comprehensive guide to pediatric psychopharmacology, detailing medications used to treat a wide variety of childhood and adolescent ...