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Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry is the trusted introductory text for students of medicine and other health professions. It has also been the essential reference for family doctors for over quarter of a century. The fourth edition has been revised and updated in collaboration with a new generation of expert psychiatrists.

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Professionals with different kinds of practices and training from around the country talk candidly about their work, the effect that clients have upon them, and the various professional problems they face.

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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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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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Here, the authors present vivid examples of clinical work with severely traumatized patients, reaching inward to their own intimate family histories as shaped by the Second World War and outward toward an exceptionally broad range of cultural references to literature, philosophy, political theory, and anthropology.

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Helps practicing physicians and medical students make use of short stories to help their patients adapt to their illnesses and participate in their treatment. This manual includes sixteen stories which as analyzed to show how they illustrate the process of change, as defined by Erik Erikson's description of the "life cycle."

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Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism. This title offers an account of the young woman's mental afflictions.

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This text presents examples of successful attempts to change mental health service systems in order to achieve the goal of providing care for those with severe mental illness. Strategies examined include consumer co-operatives, professional-volunteer teamwork and housing-based alternatives.

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Part of a growing trend toward bridging the gap between rival schools of therapy, this book goes beyond other works to envision a mental health professional who, like a family doctor, can serve as a resource for an entire family either individually or together throughout their lives.

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A guide to understanding and overcoming boredom and depression shows readers how to break the addiction to artificial forms of excitement and activity, such as television, and how to renew joy in life by unfreezing emotions.

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Making Us Crazy is a powerful and challenging book which forces us to question the labels which are now commonly imposed on us by the American bible of mental syndromes.

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Depression in older people is easily missed. This practical guide shows how to identify depression in an older person and provide support to enable best possible quality of life.

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This expose on the psychology industry aims to add depth and gravity to the international chorus of voices calling for reform of the mental health industry.

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This comprehensive guide to the future of therapy in collaborative practice combines a broad perspective with consideration of the detail.

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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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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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