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A study of psychotherapy as a dual or dia-logic discourse between the rational-cognitive and the mystic-schizophrenic worlds. The author introduces the Jewish pluralistic interpretation system (PaRdeS) as a therapeutic bridge between these two worlds.

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This book is a practical introductory guide for graduate students and novice psychotherapists in clinical and counseling psychology. It provides guidance on how to diagnose mental disorders and how to treat clients with common mental disorders.

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This book is a philosophical analysis of the development and production of the anti-diphtheria serum in France from 1894 to 1900. Jonathan Simon's unique approach considers serum, a medicinal drug, as a technological object and analyzes its insertion into the therapeutic environment of diphtheria.

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Through fourteen medical narratives of pediatric patients and their families, this book analyzes how one makes sense of difficult medical journeys.

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Directed to mental health professionals and graduate students in the mental health disciplines, we present a new way to augment the cost- effectiveness of current face-to-face (f2f) mental health based on talk, and, offer an alternative in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention approaches. Dista

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This challenging and insightful work wrestles with the difficult treatment problems confronting both culturally and socially oppressed clients and psychotherapists in a society where diversity has often been resisted.

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Divorce and Loss: Helping Adults and Children Mourn When a Marriage Comes Apart is designed to help therapists understand the many losses in divorce and the mourning process that is necessary for each family member in order to move on. Joshua Ehrlich describes how therapists ...

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In this series of clinical vignettes, a board-certified psychiatrist and life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association illustrates the effectiveness of dream therapy in treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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The Drugs Handbook 2012-2013 is a reader-friendly text perfect for nursing, health and prescribing courses. Fully updated, it is a concise guide to the mechanism of action, therapeutic indications and chief unwanted effects of medicines available in the United Kingdom, including registered herbal medicines.

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These deeper questions are being ignored, Keen asserts, in favor of pragmatic attitudes driven by convenience, cost, popular demands, insurance protocols, and theoretical preferences.

Keen first examines some of the reactions of psychiatry to the advent of pharmacotherapy.

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While health professionals may be adequately informed about the legal aspects of many specialized areas of medicine and nursing, they may not totally understand the law applicable to cases of dying patients, or even the legal definition of death itself.

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Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa pose a danger to the health of thousands of Americans each year. This resource dispels the myths surrounding these disorders by presenting factual information through a series of essays written by professionals in this field.

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The synthesis of forty years of pioneering work by the world's leading authority on the emotional aspects of eating disorders. "The definitive book on eating disorders....It is a classic."- Shervert H. Frazier, M.D., Harvard Medical School

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This highly practical guide will be of interest to patients undergoing treatment who would like a better idea of what to expect from treatment, laypersons considering psychotherapy and wondering if it is right for them, and therapists wishing to reduce their own anxiety and to increase the effectiveness of treatment.

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In an attempt to explore the explanations why psychiatrists continue to use electroshock with minors already at risk from damage, this text investigates reasons why electroshock remains popular, despite the widespread availability of proven psychosocial alternatives.

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Altering the frame of group treatment always has consequences. Blurring the boundary of what constitutes therapy can produce iatrogenic treatment reactions among vulnerable group members. How members know each other, what they know about each other, and what they know about the leader have a profound impact on the course and outcome of treatment.

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Written for students and general readers, this comprehensive encyclopedia provides entries on the history, theories, symptoms, tests, treatments, and current and future research for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

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Engaging Parents in Adolescent Therapy aims to reach outpatient mental health professionals looking to effectively incorporate parents into their work with adolescents.