Product Description: Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs) are both prevalent and a source of significant impairment for patients who suffer from them, yet they remain underrecognized and underdiagnosed. Handbook on Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders provides comprehensive and cutting-edge coverage of OCRDs for clinicians and trainees in the context of the new classification framework established by the DSM-5...read more

Product Description: Trichotillomania, skin picking, and other body-focused repetitive disorders are as common among the population as access to comprehensive clinical information is rare. Although research into habitual stereotypic movements, as they are also known, has accelerated in the last 10 years, no volume has yet presented a systematic review of clinical characteristics, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment options...read more

Product Description: Psychotropic agents have been effective for the treatment of the emotional, and cognitive symptoms of serious psychiatric disorders. At the same time, the availability of such agents raises questions about the appropriate use of what might be termed 'smart pills', 'happy pills', or 'pep pills'...read more

Product Description: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by obsessional thinking, compulsive behaviour and varying degrees of anxiety, depression, and de-personalization. Studies have shown OCD to be one of the more common psychiatric disorders, with a lifetime prevalence estimated at 2%-3%, approximately twice that of schizophrenia...read more

Research on connectionist models is one of the most exciting areas in cognitive science, and neural network models of psychopathology have immediate theoretical and empirical appeal. The contributors to this pioneering book review theoretical, historical and clinical issues, including the contribution of neural network models to diagnosis, pharmacotherapy, and psychotherapy. The text presents models for a range of disorders, including schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, disassociative phenomena, autism, and Alzheimer's disease. This volume will be read with interest by psychiatrists, psychologists and other clinicians and researchers in psychopathology. Additionally, it will appeal to those working in the fields of cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and particularly those interested in neural network or connectionist models.

Product Description: Provides information on the evaluation and utility of the schema concept and core beliefs as they apply to the research and treatment of various clinical problems.

Product Description: This book presents a comprehensive overview of recent advances in evidence-based pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders. There have been very significant developments in our understanding of the methods for systematically reviewing literature, assessing clinical trials and optimizing decision making...read more

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Product Description: Data on depression and anxiety disorders now spans a range of fields from molecular neuroscience, through cognitive and affective science, and on to evolutionary psychology. The author here integrates this work into one volume, providing the clinician with a theoretical synthesis as well as a useful practical framework...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is justifiably receiving increased recognition as an independent, prevalent and disabling condition. This book is a comprehensive overview of the symptoms, pathogenesis and treatment of GAD. Edited by three international experts, authorities from around the globe summarize the growing research database and provide clinicians with a practical approach to the elevation, management and treatment of this disorder...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An overview of the psychobiology of anxiety disorders. Sections are included on each of the main anxiety disorders, including chapters on their phenomenology, pathogenesis, pharmacotherapy, and psychotherapy. The bulk of the material is related to generalized anxiety disorder, mixed anxiety-depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder and agoraphobia, social phobia, and posttraumatic stress disorder...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In clinical practice, patients with comorbidity of mood and anxiety disorders are arguably the norm. This volume, part of a series on anxiety disorders and depression, focuses on social anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is now recognised as one of the most common psychiatric disorders, and the 10th most disabling of all medical disorders. Major advances in our understanding of its neurobiological basis and the discovery of robust treatments offer new hope for sufferers of the condition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Psychopharmacology is the study of drugs used to treat psychiatric disorders. This textbook looks at the use of clinical algorithms in relation to clinical psychopharmacology, especially the nature and current use of algorithms, and their future potential for the medical community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Integrates modern science and medicine with alternative and self-help therapies. Updates current knowledge on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)-offering practical advice for specific and appropriate patient care. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorderscovers spectrum illnesses, including somatoform, dissociative, eating, schizo-obsessive, neurological, and impulse-control conditions defines and assesses OCD with DSM-IV and other instruments discusses causative factors of OCD examines and proposes improved naturally occurring veterinary animal models details new pharmacological and combination/augmentation treatments and serotonin-reuptake inhibitors provides a mind-brain interaction paradigm based on metabolic changes resulting from cognitive behavioral self-treatment charts the growth of nonpharmacological and behavioral as well as alternative therapies, such as group and family support strategies and yoga meditation and more...read more