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Examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cultures, how clinicians make their diagnoses, and how they heal, and the educational and practical implications of a true understanding of the interplay between biology and culture.

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Explores the advantages and disadvantages of treating juvenile ADD with Ritalin.

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Living in the shadow interior of the brain's limbic system and invisible to the untrained eye, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can not only torture its victims for a lifetime, but often reaches beyond its victims to negatively influence family members and loved ones. This work conveys the symptoms of PTSD in non-technical language.

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Here, psychologists, psychiatrists and other leading experts who disagree with Thomas Szasz's views on specific issues explain their reasons, with no holds barred, and Szasz replies cogently and pungently to each of them.

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An indepth overview of major current problems faced by today's adolescents.

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This book describes the depressive in his or her natural habitat, studies the everyday problems that cause one's depression, and develops treatment approaches directed to the depressive's real-world plight.

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John Cawte looks back in amazement to his years as a young doctor in an Australian madhouse. The Last of the Lunatics is rich and moving. The personal stories recorded by a perceptive young man have been filtered by experience and sharpened by telling literary references.

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In this brilliantly original and highly accessible work, Thomas Szasz demonstrates the futility of analyzing the mind as a collection of brain functions.

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In the years between 1900 and 1930, American psychiatrists transformed their profession from a marginal science focused primarily on the care of the mentally ill into a discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. This work examines how psychiatry grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its object.

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This volume addresses the impact of war and extreme stress on civilian populations, as well as psychology's response to these phenomena.

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This volume describes the treatment of uniquely complex and profound sexual problems that the therapeutic community has been largely unsuccessful in treating. All of these cases experienced early childhood sexual trauma or mislearning that interrupted the course of normal sexual development.

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This groundbreaking volume shows the powerful benefits that can emerge when therapists acknowledge illness as a vital part of everyone's psychology.

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Looks at the uses and abuses of electroconvulsive therapy and drug therapy in the USA. The book details the success of "talking therapy", and other psychosocial interventions in helping people diagnosed as schizophrenic, depressed, panic disordered, hyperactive, and learning disabled.

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Many major and different types of depression are covered, including adjustment disorder with depressed mood, atypical depression, depressive personality disorder, dysthymic disorder, major depressive disorder, postpartum depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, seasonal affective disorder, and unipolar depression.

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Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions. -- .

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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 meticulously reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger story.

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Tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category. Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, this title provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.

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Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their minds bewildering beautiful complexities ALAIN DE BOTTON

'Radically open-minded. An extraordinary, paradigm-shifting work' NATHAN FILER

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Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their minds bewildering beautiful complexities ALAIN DE BOTTON

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This paper doll physician is ready to comfort and cure her ailing toys. More than 30 reusable stickers include patients as well as a stethoscope, doctor's bag, bandages, and even kisses!

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* An extremely moving and comprehensive look at self-mutilation, 'the addiction of the 90s'
* Written by an award-winning journalist