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  • Psychiatry the State of the Art

    Volume 6 Drug Dependence and Alcoholism, Forensic Psychiatry, Military Psychiatry

    Edited by P. Pichot, K. Thau, P. Berner ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The purpose of the World Psychiatric Association is to coordinate the activities of its Member Societies on a world-wide scale and to advance enquiry into the etiology, pathology, and treatment of mental illness. To further this purpose, the Association organizes mono- or multi thematic Regional Symposia in different parts of the world twice a year, and World Congresses dealing with all individual ... Read more

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  • Shrinks

    The Untold Story of Psychiatry

    by Jeffrey A. Lieberman ...
    The inspiration for the PBS series Mysterious of Mental Illness, Shrinks brilliantly tells the groundbreaking story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption.Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public.But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the former president of the American Psychiatric Association, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Nobody's Normal

    How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

    by Roy Richard Grinker ...
    A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Madness Explained

    Psychosis and Human Nature

    by Richard P Bentall ...
    A revised edition of Madness Explained, Richard Bentall's groundbreaking classic on mental illnessIn Madness Explained, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis. Is madness purely a medical condition that can be treated with drugs? Is there a clear dividing line between who is sane and who is insane? For this revised edition, he adds new ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Why People Die by Suicide

    by Thomas Joiner ...
    In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by suicide, this book offers the clearest account ever given of why some people choose to die.Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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  • The Meaning of Madness

    Ataraxia, #1

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 1 - Ataraxia
    The mad genius, the cracked shaman, the successful psychopath… What if mental disorder were a double-edged sword that we all could wield?This award-winning book, written by a psychiatrist and philosopher, aims to open up the debate on mental disorders, to get people interested and talking, and to get them thinking.For example, what is schizophrenia? Why is it so common? Why does it affect human ... Read more

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  • Traumatic Stress

    The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society

    Edited by Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, Alexander C. McFarlane, MD, Lars Weisaeth, M.D., Ph.D. ...
    This bestselling classic presents seminal theory and research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Together, the leading editors and contributors comprehensively examine how trauma affects an individual's biology, conceptions of the world, and psychological functioning. Key topics include why certain people cope successfully with traumatic experiences while others do not, the neurobiological ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Desperate Remedies

    Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

    by Andrew Scull ...
    A Telegraph Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable WorkA Times Book of the YearA Hughes Award Finalist“An indisputable masterpiece…comprehensive, fascinating, and persuasive.”—Wall Street Journal“Brimming with wisdom and brio, this masterful work spans the history of psychiatry. Exceedingly well-researched, wide-ranging, provocative in its conclusions, and magically compact, it is riveting f... ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • All We Have to Fear:Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders

    Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders

    by Allan V. Horwitz, PhD, Jerome C. Wakefield, DSW, PhD ...
    Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic? In All We Have to Fear, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield argue that psychiatry itself has largely generated this "epidemic" by inflating many natural fears into ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Why Torture Doesn’t Work

    The Neuroscience of Interrogation

    by Shane O'Mara ...
    Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O’Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does.In countless films and TV shows such as Homeland and 24, torture is portrayed as a harsh necessity. If cruelty can extract secrets that will save lives, so be it. ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Bereavement

    Studies of Grief in Adult Life, Fourth Edition

    by Colin Murray Parkes, Holly G. Prigerson ...
    The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is no single solution to the problems of bereavement but that an understanding of grief can help the bereaved to realise that they are not alone in their experience.Long recognised as the most authoritative work of its kind, this new edition has been ... Read more

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  • The Trauma Model: A Solution to the Problem of Comorbidity in Psychiatry

    by Colin A. Ross ...
    In The Trauma Model, Dr. Ross provides a detailed, scientifically testable method of mental illness. He defines the problem of comorbidity as the central conceptual problem in psychiatry at the beginning of the twenty-first century, then solves it using the logic and predictions of the trauma model. A person with extensive comorbidity suffers from many different psychiatric disorders at the same ... Read more

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