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Customers and patrons of the mad-trade Customers and patrons of the mad-trade Andrew T. Scull,Jonathan Andrews,Jonathan Andrews "This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book ke… OL12397343W
Living with Grief Living with Grief Jack D Gordon Living With Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy explores the nature of public tragedy, responding to these and other important questions. This book was developed with the Hospice Foundation of America'… OL15179330W
The Science of False Memory The Science of False Memory C. J Brainerd Part I. BackgroundChapter 1. Your AncientsChapter 2. Varieties of False Memory: A Modern TaxonomyPart II. The Basic Science of False MemoryChapter 3. Theoretical Explanations of False MemoryChapter 4… OL15185411W
Before you see your first client Before you see your first client Howard Rosenthal Before You See Your First Client begins where courses, workshops, training seminars, and textbooks leave off, providing a candid behind-the-scenes look at the fields of therapy, counseling and human … OL158539W
Psychosis as a personal crisis Psychosis as a personal crisis M. A. J. Romme,Sandra Escher "Psychosis as a Personal Crisis seeks to challenge the way people who hear voices are both viewed and treated. This book emphasises the individual variation between people who suffer from psychosis a… OL16561393W
Schizotypy and schizophrenia Schizotypy and schizophrenia Mark F. Lenzenweger This compelling book argues that all people with schizophrenia share a personality organization known as schizotypy. Presented is a novel framework for understanding schizophrenia through the study o… OL16981030W
The Center Cannot Hold The Center Cannot Hold Elyn R. Saks Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California… OL1943090W
Better mental health care Better mental health care Graham Thornicroft A concise guide to establishing, developing and evaluating modern mental health services, providing the relevant evidence to support necessary choices between alternative models of care. It includes … OL1957394W
The depths The depths Jonathan Rottenberg "Why are we losing the fight against depression? In this groundbreaking work, psychologist Jonathan Rottenberg explains that despite advances in pharmaceutical science, progress has been hampered by … OL19708333W
Clinical neuropsychology Clinical neuropsychology Laura H. Goldstein,Jane E. McNeil Clinical Neuropsychology A Practical Guide to Assessment and Management for Clinicians shows how knowledge of neuropsychological applications is relevant and useful to a wide range of clinicians. It … OL19834947W
Healing the hurt within Healing the hurt within Jan Sutton Skillfully woven together with empathic insight into the lives and minds of those who self-injure, "Healing the Hurt Within" is replete with the latest developments in the field, informative statisti… OL19854884W
Managing intense emotions and overcoming self-destructive habits Managing intense emotions and overcoming self-destructive habits Lorraine Bell This self-help manual for those who meet the diagnosis of 'emotionally unstable' or 'borderline personality disorder'(BPD) outlines a brief intervention based on a model of treatment known to be effe… OL19885475W
Committed Committed Dinah Miller "Battle lines have been drawn over involuntary treatment. On one side, there are those who oppose involuntary psychiatric treatments under any condition. Activists who take up this cause often don't … OL20041619W
Serving mentally ill offenders Serving mentally ill offenders Gerald Landsberg This comprehensive book addresses the complex issues associated with the criminalization of mentally ill offenders in the United States and the ways in which social workers and other mental health pr… OL20627173W
The Praeger handbook of community mental health practice The Praeger handbook of community mental health practice Doreen Maller This title addresses the complexities of interconnectivity, therapeutic capacity, and the competencies needed in order to provide sophisticated and integrated community mental health care -- both in … OL20642763W
Critical Perspectives on Mental Health Critical Perspectives on Mental Health Vicki Coppock Over the last forty years, there have been numerous attempts to critique the theory and practice of mental health care. Taking its lead from anti-psychiatry, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health se… OL3527014W
Managing high risk sex offenders in the community Managing high risk sex offenders in the community Jackie Craissati How can a psychological framework improve the success of risk management? The management of sex offenders in the community is of paramount concern to the general public, and this is reflected in the … OL619178W
The Architecture of Madness The Architecture of Madness Carla Yanni Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums—ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles—were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities… OL8396583W
Break the bipolar cycle Break the bipolar cycle Xavier Amador,Elizabeth Brondolo Take control of your symptoms--and take charge of your lifeIf you're dealing with bipolar disorder, you already know that it's more than a cycle of "ups" and "downs." You may also have difficulty wit… OL9306960W
Psychiatric Genetics Psychiatric Genetics Jordan W. Smoller This book focus is on the clinical applications of genetics in psychiatry. It covers issues involved in genetic counseling, the interpretation of familial and genetic information for clinical use, in… OL9889835W
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