Offers authoritative, easy-to-understand advice on antidepressants, tranquilizers, drugs and AIDS, antipsychotics, drugs for pregnancy, drugs and the elderly, experimental drugs, withdrawal symptoms, side effects, and drugs to avoid

Product Description: Among the vast and rapidly growing field of AIDS research, there is an ample body of evidence supporting the fact that psychiatric treatment can decrease transmission, diminish suffering, improve adherence, and decrease morbidity and mortality...read more

Product Description: ¿Cuál es la educación adecuada en una sociedad marcada al mismo tiempo por la pluralización cultural y la individualización? Tras examinar las características de las sociedades multiculturales, el presente libro expone los principios teóricos de la educación intercultural, así como el papel y las funciones de las distinta...read more

Product Description: Animals, like people, experience fear and avoidance, which can be reliably observed, quantified, and manipulated in almost all species. Remarkably, as this volume demonstrates, the neural circuits responsible for the acquisition and expression of fear are conserved throughout phylogeny from rodents through nonhuman primates to humans...read more

Product Description: En psicología hay diferentes enfoques y formas de abordar el tratamiento psicológico y todos tienen su reflejo profesional. Actualmente, la mayoría de los psicólogos clínicos y psiquiatras, independientemente de su orientación, tienden a utilizar unos mismos criterios de clasificación y denominación de las diferentes enfer...read more

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Product Description: One of the most devastating of illnesses, schizophrenia remains something of a mystery for scientists and psychiatrists trying to pinpoint its causes, understand its effects, and find a cure. Although we know that schizophrenia is an inherited disorder, new clues point to the probability that genes are only partly responsible for the disease...read more

Presents a psychiatric reference book that includes a directory of psychiatric drugs detailing which ones work and which ones do not, and offers articles on psychiatric illnesses such as bulimia, ocd, and depression

Product Description: In recent years a series of practice guidelines for the effective treatment of mental disorders have been proposed by groups, such as the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association, as well as the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A doctor presents a psychiatric reference book that includes a directory of psychiatric drugs detailing which ones work and which ones do not; articles on such psychiatric illnesses as bulimia, OCD, and depression; and insurance information.

Product Description: There is now clear evidence that the central nervous system and the immune system communicate regularly, with a vast array of reciprocal and functionally important influences. "Psychoimmunology Update" examines, in thorough detail, the "mind-body" connection, and offers a comprehensive review of the current state of psychoimmunity research, from the basic laboratory, to animal research, to clinical investigation, and finally, to treatment implications...read more