The only guide to personality types based on the American Psychiatric Association's just-published official diagnostic system--the DSM-IV--and written by one of today's leading personality researchers, this long-time backlist bestseller has been completely updated to include all the fascinating new infotmation about how we become who we are--and ...
A self-help classic in the making, this book offers a fascinating new approach to self-understanding, a lively anecdotal style, absorbing self-tests, and leading-edge research. Based on the most advanced research and thinking within American psychiatry, and endorsed by the American Psychiatric Association.
To Todd Oldham, one of today's most important young fashion designers, style and artistic expression aren't about money, nor about achieving aesthetic perfection--he believes that, with a self-aware eye, all people can unleash their own distinctive tastes. In "Without Boundaries", today's premier fashion photographers provide dazzling images of ...
In order to maintain an up-to-date practice and provide patients with the best possible care, psychiatrists and health care professionals need access to the latest scientific research and newest advances in treatment. In the 16th volume of this vital reference series, more than 40 internationally and nationally recognized experts describe and ...
This volume continues the series for the practising clinician, by discussing topics such as: substance abuse; psychiatric disorders in women and women's health care; psychiatric genetics; cross-cultural psychiatry and sexual disorders.
Covering all aspects of mental health, this guide offers information on therapy choice, legal and ethical issues, and a directory of psychiatric drugs.
A compilation of the latest trends, issues, and developments in the field of hospital psychiatry, this textbook, written by 70 national experts and clinical specialists, covers a wide range of clinical and administrative topics that are central to psychiatric practice today.
Although research on the diagnosis and treatment of depression in children and adolescents has lagged far behind that in adults, recent large-scale studiesÂarmed with operationalized criteria and validated assessment instrumentsÂhave done much to close this gap. In The Many Faces of Depression in Children and Adolescents, Drs. Shaffer and Waslick ...
An abridged version of "The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Personality Disorders," this volume presents the essentials of this topic and is updated with the recent growth of knowledge in the neurosciences and the new technologies being used to tackle the treatment of complex psychiatric disorders.
In this 12th volume in the "Review of Psychiatry" series, editors John M. Oldham MD, Michelle B. Riba MD, and Allan Tasman MD, continue a decade-long commitment to making this series a vital reference for the practising clinician. More than 50 contributors share their expertise in the areas of homosexuality, post-traumatic stress disorder, brain ...
Traditionally, impulsive and compulsive behaviors have been categorized as fundamentally distinct. However, patients often exhibit both of these behaviors. This common comorbidity has sparked renewed interest in the factors contributing to the disorders in which these behaviors are prominent. Impulsivity and Compulsivity applies a provocative ...
The multidisciplinary field of developmental psychobiology has uncovered new findings in behavioral progressions that have led to exciting avenues for therapeutic intervention. Developmental Psychobiology examines typical and atypical behavioral and neural development, reflecting a broad sampling of this multidisciplinary field in its five densely ...
PTSD is a recently named psychiatric condition that unknown before the publication of DSM-III in 1980. The creation of this diagnosis was intensely controversial, and there continued to be considerable reluctance to apply the term to children. The 1985 landmark volume, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children, edited by Spencer Eth and Robert ...
In this authoritative volume youAll find todayAs most important molecular neurobiological advances and their relevance to clinicians treating patients with mental illness. Molecular Neurobiology for the Clinician, Review of Psychiatry, Volume 22, will update you on the latest findingsAand their impact on psychiatry. YouAll learn about ...
A complete edition of Oldham's poems was last attempted in 1770, when the autographs in the Bodleian Library were unknown. The present edition furnishes a complete and critical text, bibliographically prepared, with full textual apparatus.
An overview of the concept of construct validity which reviews arguments for and against the use of longitudinal data and biological markers to validate personality disorder diagnoses. The book addresses questions about validity as applied to the personality disorders DSM-III or DSM-III-R.
Examine personality psychopathology from diverse perspectives and explore multiple research and treatment approaches with The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Personality Disorders. Capture the multifaceted range of nonpathological human behavior and develop a judicious understanding of the extremes of behavior that are called ...
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