Cigarette smoking is estimated to lead to 4.9 million premature deaths per year worldwide. This is predicted to rise to 10 million by 2020. In western countries it kills half of all smokers who fail to stop. The prevailing model for tobacco...
Hughes' Outline of Psychiatry, Fifth Edition presents a comprehensive account of current practice in psychiatry, summarising up-to-date knowledge of the subject in a concise way. Part I touches on general classification, causes and prevention of...
Mental health concerns are the most serious and prevalent health problems among students in higher education. Increasingly effective psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments have facilitated matriculation for students with...
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Service user involvement in mental health research poses specific challenges for both researchers and service users. The book describes the relevant background and principles underlying the concept of service user involvement in mental health...
A key text for Psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, as well as trainees in the area. Presenting a clinical model which has close connections with American constructivist psychotherapy and Bowlby’s Attachment Theory. Delineates a set...
The recent identification of susceptibility genes for schizophrenia, depression and learning and memory dysfunction suggest that psychiatric disorders may be influenced by a small number of genes with multiple actions. This is the first book to...
Clinical Hypnosis has proved successful in a variety of clinical situations. This handbook, with its practical approach, covers both the scientific and clinical aspects of hypnosis providing information on a range of available psychological and...
The revised 13th edition of the essential reference for the prescribing of drugs for patients with mental health disorders The revised and updated 13th edition of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry provides up-to-date information,...
This title provides a comprehensive overview of clinical, epidemiological, psychobiological, psychosocial and service organization aspects of disaster psychiatry. It takes a practical approach and includes a series of reports on significant...
According to the World Health Organization’s World Health Report 2001, one family in four worldwide has at least one member currently suffering from a mental disorder. This disorder often remains undiagnosed and untreated, but the behaviour of...
In the 100 years since Eugen Bleuler unveiled his concept of schizophrenia, which had dissociation at its core, the essential connection between traumatic life events, dissociative processes and psychotic symptoms has been lost. Psychosis,...
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
At last – a new edition of the highly acclaimed book Clinical Trials in Psychiatry This book provides a concise but thorough overview of clinical trials in psychiatry, invaluable to those seeking solutions to numerous problems relating to...
This exceptional book responds to the intense current interest in defining and understanding the contribution of traditional medical knowledge and the intervention techniques of traditional healers to national mental health services around the...
Winner of Medical Journalists’ Association Specialist Readership Award 2010 Recovery is widely endorsed as a guiding principle of mental health policy. Recovery brings new rules for services, e.g. user involvement and person-centred care, as...
The new edition of this critically praised text continues to provide the most comprehensive overview of the concepts, methods, and research advances in the field. It has been revised and enhanced to capitalize on the strengths of the first...
Intellectual Disability Psychiatry is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the management of mental health problems in people with intellectual disabilities. A clear and user-friendly handbook, it will help busy healthcare professionals...
Alzheimer's Disease is an ever present problem affecting millions of people around the world and, as people's average lifespan lengthens, its prevalence is set to increase. A global effort is needed to combat the disease, including research to...
The later stages of dementia are as important, if not more so, as the earlier stages, since they harbour unique characteristics and events, which profoundly affect the lives of patients and their carers. Severe dementia has not had a high...
Be Guided by the Evidence… Somatoform disorders are more common than many clinicians realize and are often underdiagnosed and poorly managed. This practical guide provides a comprehensive overview of all somatoform disorders. It aims to enable...
Bipolar disorder is often not recognized as an illness, and people may suffer for years before it is properly diagnosed and treated. Like diabetes or heart disease, bipolar disorder is a long-term illness that must be carefully managed...
This 8th volume of the WPA series in Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry provides an update of research evidence and clinical experience concerning personality disorders. A general term for a group of behavioural disorders, personality...
Written by an outstanding team of internationally recognised experts, this practical textbook is based on the European Certificate in Anxiety and Mood Disorders. It provides a thorough overview of diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders and...
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Psychiatric diagnosis is one of the most important topics within the broad field of psychiatry. Clear, accurate definitions of the various disorders are essential for clinicians around the world to be confident that they are classifying patients...
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental disorder involving episodes of serious mania and depression and affects approximately one to three percent of the population. According to the National Institute of Mental Health nearly two million...
From Chapter 1 «Depression, like many other mental disorders, is characterised by the presence of a number of symptoms which are changeable over time.» Among these symptoms are a depressed mood and a loss of interest; physical and cognitive...
Rapid developments in recent years in basic science and pharmacology has greatly increased understanding of the causes of anxiety disorders. This has led to a large number of new drug treatments from the pharmaceutical industry. This book makes...
Rapid Psychiatry is the fifth title in the Rapid series of short revision notes books, covering key information in a simple and easily accessible format, using a mnemonic to aid recall. This book provides an excellent revision tool in the run-up...
Phobias are increasingly common amongst the general population, sometimes resulting in a very significant social disability and burden for the family. Most cases remain undiagnosed, and many of those which are diagnosed are treated...
Dementia is most frequently associated with aging and is, at present, under-diagnosed and under-represented all over the world. Discrepancies in the diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions implemented in the various clinical contexts...
This series acknowledges the substantial gap that still exists in psychiatry between research evidence and clinical practice: clinicians are sometimes incompletely aware of research findings, or regard them as biased, not convincing or not...
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
The Old Age Psychiatry Handbook provides a comprehensive but concise overview of psychiatric, medical and practical issues that may arise within the speciality. The book is written in an easy assimilated format, ideal for use in the clinic and...
Наше сознание – предмет споров сильнейших умов человечества, область исследований, в которой настолько же много интересного, насколько мало определенного и окончательно доказанного. Человечество развивается, создает новые технологии, но в...
В руководстве описаны такие основополагающие разделы психиатрической пропедевтики, как психиатрическая и феноменологическая диагностика, психическая и поведенческая норма, патология, девиации, методы исследования в психиатрии, психопатология....
A guide to treating psychosis that provides information on drug options and side-effects in order to allow for weighing treatment options knowledgably The Maudsley Guidelines on Advanced Prescribing in Psychosis offers a resource that puts the...
Психика человека – до сих пор неразгаданная тайна. Современная психиатрия плотно связана с нейробиологией и исследует то, как окружающий мир влияет на головной мозг и как головной мозг людей с психическими расстройствами функционирует в этом...
Карл Ясперс (1883–1969) прославился в первую очередь как философ, один из основоположников экзистенциализма, чье влияние отмечали Альбер Камю, Жан-Поль Сартр, Ханна Арендт. Однако Ясперс был не только философом, но и врачом-психиатром, и...
Описание множества закономерностей и научных соображений по части перспектив развития цивилизации, социология, биология, психиатрия, художество, этика. Содержит нецензурную брань.
Acute Psychiatric Emergencies is designed for all medical and healthcare professionals working with patients in mental health crisis. This manual is a key component of the Acute Psychiatric Emergencies (APEx) course, which uses a structured...
Практическое руководство посвящено актуальной проблеме: описанию нового для отечественных специалистов метода психотерапии – комплаенс-терапии. Методика комплаенс-терапии базируется на когнитивно-поведенческой модели психотерапии и использует...
Биполярное расстройство проявляется в экстремальных перепадах настроения: от эйфорических маний до суицидальных депрессий. Это тяжелое заболевание, которое способно превратить жизнь любого человека в хаос и руины. И при этом вовсе не редкое:...
Психозы сопровождали жизнь человека с незапамятных времен. И решение этой проблемы было для нас всегда сродни «мистическому непознаваемому». Психиатрия же взялась за решение проблемы психозов… и проиграла. Проиграла, поскольку в основе ее...
Сабина Шпильрейн – одна из первых женщин психоаналитиков. В 1904 год в возрасте 18 лет поступила в психиатрическую клинику в Цюрихе, где встретила молодого доктора Карла Густава Юнга, который лечил ее психоз в течение одного года. В это время,...
Автор сравнивает реалии жизни с известными теориями сущего: от конспирологии до оккультизма. Жонглируя понятиями и словами, данный текст уносит читателя в мир увлекательных рассуждений, где действительность переходит в возможное, но не...