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  • Endocrine Psychiatry

    Solving the Riddle of Melancholia

    by Edward Shorter, Max Fink ...
    The riddle of melancholia has stumped generations of doctors. It is a serious depressive illness that often leads to suicide and premature death. The disease's link to biology has been intensively studied. Unlike almost any other psychiatric disorder, melancholia sufferers have abnormal endocrine functions. Tests capable of separating melancholia from other mood disorders were useful discoveries, ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Electroshock

    Healing Mental Illness

    by Max Fink ...
    Electroshock therapy has long suffered from a controversial and bizarre public image, effectively removing it as a treatment option for many patients. In Electroshock, Max Fink, M.D., draws on 45 years of clinical and research experience to argue that ECT is now a safe, painless, and sometimes life-saving treatment for emotional and mental disorders. Dr. Fink traces the development of ECT from its ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Madness of Fear

    A History of Catatonia

    by Edward Shorter, Max Fink ...
    What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing wrong with basic science research, but before studying the role of brain circuits or cerebral ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Ethics in Electroconvulsive Therapy

    by Jan-Otto Ottosson, Max Fink ...
    Few mental illness treatments are more reviled in the public mind than Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy. However, in reality, ECT is a safe and effective treatment for cases of clinical depression and catatonia that are unresponsive to drug therapy. Also, unlike drugs, ECT has relatively few side effects. The authors argue that it is time for this historically stigmatized procedure to be ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Permanent Present Tense

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  • Depression

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    by Aaron T. Beck, M.D., Brad A. Alford, Ph.D. ...
    More than forty years ago, Dr. Aaron T. Beck's pioneering Depression: Causes and Treatment presented the first comprehensive account of all aspects of depression and introduced cognitive therapy to health care providers and patients struggling with one of the most common and devastating diseases of the modern age. Since that classic text first appeared, the appreciation of the multifaceted nature ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Madness

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  • Social Phobia - Analysis and Cure

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  • How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown

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  • Signal & Symptoms of Schizophrenia

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  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    by Stanley Rachman, Padmal de Silva ...
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    Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a relatively common psychological problem. The symptoms - which can be seriously disabling in extreme cases - can include excessive hand-washing or other cleaning rituals, repeated checking, extreme slowness and unwanted, repugnant intrusive thoughts. This book covers the nature, symptoms, causes and theories of OCD. It discusses the treatments that are ... Read more

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