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Product Description: Choice Recommended Read What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today covers the diagnoses that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) failed to include, along with diagnoses that should not have been included, but were...read more

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9781138830905 | Routledge, March 10, 2015, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Choice Recommended Read What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today covers the diagnoses that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) failed to include, along with diagnoses that should not have been included, but were.

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9781138830899 | Routledge, March 4, 2015, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Choice Recommended Read What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today covers the diagnoses that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) failed to include, along with diagnoses that should not have been included, but were.

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Product Description: The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine is North America’s largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes. It is where insulin was pioneered, stem cells were first discovered, and famous physicians from Vincent Lam to Sheela Basrur began their careers...read more

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9781442664043 | Univ of Toronto Pr, December 6, 2013, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine is North America’s largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes.
9781442645950 | Univ of Toronto Pr, July 17, 2013, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine is North America’s largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes.

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Product Description: Shock therapy is making a comeback today in the treatment of serious mental illness. Despite its reemergence as a safe and effective psychiatric tool, however, it continues to be shrouded by a longstanding negative public image, not least due to films such as the classic One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, where the inmate of a psychiatric clinic (played by Jack Nicholson) is subjected to electro-shock to curb his rebellious behavior...read more

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9780802093479 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 30, 2007, cover price $48.95
9780813541693 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 30, 2007, cover price $34.95

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9780813554259 | Reprint edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, January 18, 2013), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Shock therapy is making a comeback today in the treatment of serious mental illness.

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Product Description: Psychotic Depression aims to help clinical practitioners and trainees describe their observations of psychotic depression, formulate treatment, and express expectations of recovery from illness. It focuses on all facets of the disorder, from clinical history to coverage of the current state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment protocols...read more

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9780521878227 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2007), cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Psychotic Depression aims to help clinical practitioners and trainees describe their observations of psychotic depression, formulate treatment, and express expectations of recovery from illness.

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9781107406292 | 1 reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 9, 2012), cover price $89.99 | About this edition: Psychotic Depression aims to help clinical practitioners and trainees describe their observations of psychotic depression, formulate treatment, and express expectations of recovery from illness.

Placing the physical symptoms of stress in a historical and cultural context, the author shows how patients through the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society

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9780029286654 | Free Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Placing the physical symptoms of stress in a historical and cultural context, the author shows how patients through the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society

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9780029286678 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, June 7, 1993), cover price $22.95

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Product Description: Written in the Flesh is a history of sexual desire - a startling and provocative history of what people yearn to do sexually. It is the story of the whole body's need for sexual attention rather than simply the genitalia and their procreational function...read more

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9780802038432 | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 10, 2005, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: Written in the Flesh is a history of sexual desire - a startling and provocative history of what people yearn to do sexually.

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9780802094520 | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 23, 2006, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Written in the Flesh is a history of sexual desire - a startling and provocative history of what people yearn to do sexually.

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Product Description: According to Edward Shorter, just forty years ago the institutions housing people with mental retardation (MR) had become a national scandal. The mentally retarded who lived at home were largely isolated and a source of family shame...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781566397827 | Temple Univ Pr, June 29, 2000, cover price $84.50 | About this edition: According to Edward Shorter, just forty years ago the institutions housing people with mental retardation (MR) had become a national scandal.

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9781566397834 | Temple Univ Pr, June 26, 2000, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: According to Edward Shorter, just forty years ago the institutions housing people with mental retardation (MR) had become a national scandal.

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Examines the people, institutions, concepts, social forces, and philosophies that have influenced the development of psychiatry (view table of contents)

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9780471157496 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Examines the people, institutions, concepts, social forces, and philosophies that have influenced the development of psychiatry

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9780471245315 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $45.00

Examines the relationship between social identity and the varieties of psychosomatic illness, tracing the interplay of cultural and biological factors in psychosomatic distress and showing why some individuals are more predisposed than others to develop chronic illness.

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9780029286661 | Free Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Examines the relationship between social identity and the varieties of psychosomatic illness, tracing the interplay of cultural and biological factors in psychosomatic distress and showing why some individuals are more predisposed than others to develop chronic illness.

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9780887388712 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, March 1, 1991), cover price $31.95

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Product Description: What has been the source of women's oppression by men? Shorter argues that women were victimized by their own bodies. Exploring five centuries of medical records and folklore from Europe and the US, he shows how pregnancy, childbirth, and gynecological disease have kept women in positions of socia...read more

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9780887388484 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, January 1, 1991), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: What has been the source of women's oppression by men?

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A history of medical breakthroughs of the last fifty years focuses on key players and their biomedical advancements, from Watson and Crick's work with DNA to genetic engineering

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9780385242363 | Doubleday, October 1, 1987, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A history of medical breakthroughs of the last fifty years focuses on key players and their biomedical advancements, from Watson and Crick's work with DNA to genetic engineering

Traces and assesses the discernible factors and determinants of the gradual transformation of the Western family, over the last three hundred years, from extended to nuclear

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9780465097227 | Basic Books, August 1, 1977, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Traces and assesses the discernible factors and determinants of the gradual transformation of the Western family, over the last three hundred years, from extended to nuclear

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