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An overview written for general readers of the history, prevention, treatment, causes, and consequences of obesity.

What makes obesity a disease instead of just a matter of overeating

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Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in countries like the United States. This book provides a comprehensive summary of obesity in America and around the world, discussing the causes and proposing ways to help stem the tide and to help those who are overweight.

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Most studies of geriatric patients have focused on nursing homes. This ethnography details the day-to-day experiences of a geriatric and assessment unit by examining the staff, families, and patients themselves. It looks at the activities that take place in the unit as well as the less obvious cultural patterns of the process.

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The book offers a deep insight into the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it not only meticulously reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940 to 1980 but also tells a larger story: the changing history of clinical trials.

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The book is intended primarily for professionals, educators, and students in the fields of geriatrics, nursing, rehabilitation, social work, gerontology, family sociology, medical anthropology, and family therapy.

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Reviews the historical development of psychiatry. In this book, the author shows that mental illnesses are intimately tied to that which makes us human in the first place and have always followed us. Psychiatry, for all its flaws, represents our best attempts to discharge this most human of impulses.

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A terrifying picture of the collapse of American psychiatry and the toll it has taken on the mentally ill."-BusinessWeek

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This book offers an in indictment of the nation's drug enforcement approach focusing on the short-sighted policies that often deny patients suffering from chronic pain the medications they need.

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This book offers an in indictment of the nation's drug enforcement approach focusing on the short-sighted policies that often deny patients suffering from chronic pain the medications they need.

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Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today.

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Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today.

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Written by a childbirth specialist, this concise manual teaches spouses, friends, and family how to ease the burdens of pregnancy and childbirth. The ultimate self-help guide for the partner of a birthing mother.

(Hardback)

This book provides a description of the change processes that occur in psychotherapy when it is viewed from a personal construct perspective. The reconstructive process is dealt with in some depth, including the goals of personal construct therapy, the process of reconstruing and the sharing of it between therapist and client.

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This volume presents current models of coping, describes the coping process, and relates that process to environmental factors, person variables, and desirable outcomes.

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A study of what phobias are, how they occur and how we can stop them.

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Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration. Ghosts are ubiquitous in contemporary critical theory and in literary and visual culture.

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This is a practical manual for group facilitators, informed by extensive experience. Grounded in a firm psychological evidence base, it focuses on the concrete practicalities of how to make groups vehicles for success, whether in achieving therapy or self-development, in optimising team function or in achieving specific organisational tasks.

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Intended for results-oriented psychoanalysis, this book describes how clinical psychoanalysis can focus on symptom relief and deliver results efficiently.

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A must for parents, teachers and counselors, this book targets preadolescent girls aiming to engage them in educational activites that will empower them to avoid eating disorders.

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