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Certain persons do not benefit from psychotherapy or drop out prematurely. In Guided Enactments in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Sebastiano Santostefano provides research- supported concepts that can help therapists identify these persons. Santostefano also offers techniques that promote an interpersonal alliance and resolve emotions related to traumatic experiences that interfere with therapy.

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The work is organized into five sections, which treat theories of addiction, the diagnosis and evaluation of addictive behavior, treatment approaches, addiction among special populations, and clinical and legal issues concerning substance abuse professionals.

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It is estimated that there are 60,000 excess Black American deaths annually compared with White Americans.

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This handbook provides both a conceptual and practical framework for diagnosing, treating, and assessing post-traumatic stress in survivors of violence, abuse, war, ethnocultural problems, political torture, and disaster.

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Intravenous drug users account for nearly one-third of the current AIDS cases in the United States--second only to gay males--and are responsible for 72 percent of female and 59 percent of pediatric cases of AIDS.

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is increasingly common as service men and women return from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other combat zones. This work takes us into the minds of PTSD-affected veterans, as they struggle against the traumatic events lingering in their minds, sometimes exploding into violent behaviour.

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This is an analysis of the 1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments, the successor to the 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and, perhaps, the most important environmental law of the past decade and a half.

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Healing American Healthcare presents an undeniable case for universal healthcare in the United States. The authors' research, combined with their experience in the United States healthcare system, has given them the expertise to suggest that as a nation we can provide care for all, while reducing our overall cost of care by $1 trillion per year.

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Shows us the physical, emotional, social, economic, and legal effects of what the author calls "headless health care." This work illustrates with patient stories the profound impact psychological and behavioral disorders have on physical health and, conversely, the impact that medical illness has on mental health.

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Written directly to individuals who have experienced childhood trauma, this book provides essential information that allows victims to begin recovering from their immense pain and suffering, and empowers them to examine their specific issues in order to become a true survivor.

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This book is a practical guide for therapists wanting to integrate interactive games and challenges into their work. It provides current research supporting using ABC with trauma survivors and those recovering from addictions, as well as twelve activity-based chapters of various one-hour sessions of activities, complete with 50 photos.

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What is the current state of traditional healing practices in contemporary Asian societies

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A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics.

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In 1882, Robert Koch discovered the TB bacillus, signaling a redirection of medical thinking from the trial and error guesswork of individual experience toward medical care based upon science.

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A comprehensive guide to imagery therapy for the common cold, bone fractures, arthritis, headaches, asthma, infertility, PMS, anxiety, obesity and much more.

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A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries -- .

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Key sections include a historical overview of health education, a discussion of the design and use of health programs, a sample of outstanding programs, and an analysis of the research and evaluation methods employed.

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In this groundbreaking book, experts show what a difference support systems-family, friends, community and social programs-can make towards the recovery of the millions of people who suffer a traumatic brain injury each year.

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Medicine in the 19th century may strike us as primitive by today's standards, but widespread social change of the era brought about new ideas and practices in health and healing-all described in this engaging book.

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Examining a 300-year period that encompasses the Scientific Revolution, this engrossing book offers a fresh and clearly organized discussion of the human experience of health, medicine, and health care, from the Age of Discovery to the era of the French Revolution.

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In today's chaotic health reform environment, it is especially important for non-financial health care managers to have a practical guide to the tools and concepts they need to manage their human, supply, and equipment resources.

Today's health care managers, frequently, were yesterday's technicians, physicians, and nurses.