With this memoir, Jamison, a psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of mood research, revealed her own struggle with manic-depressive, or bipolar, illness. Interspersing humorous descriptions of the strange logic that permeated her manic episodes with haunting recollections of the depressions that would follow, she chronicles her professional ...
Since the DSM-IV® was published in 1994, we�ve seen many advances in our knowledge of psychiatric illness. This Text Revision incorporates information culled from a comprehensive literature review of research about mental disorders published since DSM-IV® was completed in 1994. Updated information is included about the associated features, ...
A pediatrician and father of four offers step-by-step advice on how to get children to sleep (both during naptime and through the night) thus ensuring that they will get the rest they need to grow up healthy and happy.
This is an impressively thick (400+ pages) workbook that is most thorough in its approach to handling the sensations of panic, phobia, and anxiety. One of the exercises involves keeping a panic attack record for a two-week period, and another how to connect bodily symptoms with catastrophic thoughts. Exercise and relaxation are key, as are ...
In a breakthrough study, a neuro-psychiatrist offers a variety of suggestions--from cognitive exercises to dietary changes--aimed at those who suffer from neurological imbalances such as depression, anxiety, and other frontal lobe problems.
Advice for parents on how they can help their baby fall asleep without crying and then sleep peacefully through the night. The author, a parenting educator and the mother of four, provides a 10-step program that teaches parents how to develop a "sleep plan" based on their baby's own sleep patterns and needs.
This guide offers parents practical interventions when dealing with children who are easily angered. Discussing the problems and solutions in an empathetic and easy-to-understand manner, this book provides more than just a "standard approach" when dealing with your child.
From the recognized authority on manic-depressive illness, Kay Redfield Jamison, this study links the lives of celebrated artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Robert Schumann, and Lord Byron to the euphoric highs and crushing lows that are the textbook symptoms of manic-depression.
The author, an expert on reading and dyslexia, offers a scientific explanation of dyslexia and then explains how parents can work with their children to overcome this problem. Also discussed is dealing with dyslexia in older children and adults.
"The Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fourth Edition" provides treatment planning guidelines and an array of pre-written treatment plan components for behavioral and psychological problems, including anger management, blended family conflicts, low self-esteem, chemical dependence, eating disorders, and sexual acting out. Clinicians with ...
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frightening mood swings that they often fear for their sanity. They can be euphoric one moment, despairing and depressed the next. They show symptoms such as: a shaky sense of identity; sudden violent outbursts; oversensitivity to real or imagined rejection; brief, turbulent ...
"A Guide to Rational Living" provides much sought-after answers for individuals with problems, and it can help everyone to feel better about themselves and to deal with their lives more effectively.
This guide draws on the authors' experience as clinicians and teachers of cognitive therapy to help clients successfully understand and improve their moods, alter their behaviour, and enhance their relationships. Illustrated with case examples, the book presents the skills for identifying problems, setting goals, and achieving the desired changes.
This comprehensive guide offers straight talk that can help people with bipolar disorder take charge of their illness and reclaim their lives. It is filled with practical self-assessment and self management strategies from a compassionate professional who knows what works. The book helps individuals and family members come to terms with the ...
The Quick Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria From DSM-IV-TR® is a handy, low priced companion to the ultimate psychiatric reference, DSM-IV-TR®. It includes all the diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV-TR® in an easy-to-use, paperback format. In making DSM-IV diagnosis, clinicians and researchers may find it convenient to consult the Quick ...
A scientifically proven four-step self-treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) which enables people to modify their behaviour and their brain chemistry. OCD is a condition which affects millions of people worldwide. This work shows how sufferers can cure themselves by their own determination rather than through psycho-pharmaceuticals. ...
Bipolar Disorder is characterized by alternating periods of dramatically manic behavior and episodes of extreme sadness and hopelessness, often with periods of normalcy in between. Those close to bipolar individuals may experience feelings of fear, loss, and anxiety and a constant uncertainty about the bipolar individual's mood. Loving Someone ...
Clinical research has demonstrated the effectiveness of a spiritual approach to controlling fear, anxiety, and panic. From this compassionate and nonreligious book, the panic-driven will learn to use the principle of mindfulness to relieve a wide range of stress-related conditions.
"Bipolar Disorder" affects many more people than just the 2.5 million Americans who suffer from the disease. Like depression and other serious illnesses, bipolar disorder also affects spouses, partners, family members, friends and coworkers. And, according to the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, 15 percent of children diagnosed with ADHD ...
On Combat looks at what happens to the human body under the stresses of deadly battle ? the impact on the nervous system, heart, breathing, visual and auditory perception, memory - then discusses new research findings as to what measures warriors can take to prevent such debilitations so they can stay in the fight, survive, and win. A brief, but ...
In its full-colour, fifth edition, Mary Townsend's "Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice" is still the most clearly written text on the subject. The stress/adaptation model remains the conceptual framework for the delivery of nursing care, providing a foundation of psychiatric mental health nursing ...
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