Product Description: John Haslam’s Illustrations of Madness, written in 1810, occupies a special place in psychiatric history, it was the first book-length account of one single psychiatric case written by a British psychiatrist. John Haslam, apothecary to London’s Bethlem Hospital, and a leading psychiatrist of the early-nineteenth century, details the case of James Tilly Matthews, who had been a patient in the hospital for some ten years...read more

Product Description: This handbook will provide updated information on nuclear medicine and molecular imaging techniques as well as its clinical applications, including radionuclide therapy, to trainees and practitioners of nuclear medicine, radiology and general medicine...read more

Product Description: Current Topics in Counseling provides a comprehensive but concise overview of critical professional topics and treatment issues. Students in helping profession programs including counseling and psychology learn skills and techniques, but often feel unprepared to deal with the specific and difficult issues clients bring to them...read more

A dual memoir and journalistic investigation into the criminalization of America's mentally ill describes the author's battle with the shortcomings of the nation's mental health system after his son was declared ill, and exposes what the author learned throughout his year-long investigation into the Miami-Dade County jail. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: "Madness can afford the individual certain resources and abilities that are not available to others. The fantasy life, free flight of ideas, distortions of reality, and heightened senses . . . offer a unique perspective on the world...read more

This rich collection of case studies integrates contemporary and recognizable classic cases to illustrate a wide range of clinical and legal issues related to abnormal psychology. Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology brings the field of abnormal psychology to life for students with its rare combination of readability, humor, and strong scholarship. Students gain a greater understanding of what a person experiences, and how he/she reacts to the diverse factors studied in psychopathology, as they apply principles of abnormal psychology to these cases. To enable students to more fully understand the nature of the disorder, each case in this book contains the full background material relevant to etiological, diagnostic, and therapeutic considerations. Also, significant family and social history data are presented in order to give students a clear picture of how specific behavior patterns were generated and maintained.

Product Description: Book by Kayla F. Bernheim

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Product Description: The "McGraw-Hill Casebook in Abnormal Psychology" brings together a diverse selection of interesting and vivid cases approached from a variety of theoretical viewpoints. By presenting case studies from actual practitioners, this book illustrates how psychologists diagnose and treat various psychological disorders...read more

This casebook accompanies the text "Abnormal Psychology". Using case studies, it illustrates how psychologists diagnose and treat various psychological disorders. Each case is organized into five sections: presenting complaint; history; conceptualization; prognosis; and discussion. (view table of contents)

What can we learn about madness from plays? Plays, when they portray madness, put it into the context of the events and circumstances that have afflicted the person, and provide models of madness which interest all those who meet madness in their professional work or their daily lives. Derek Russell Davis believes that playgoers can learn as much about madness at the theatre as from textbooks of psychiatry, and that the understanding plays give of madness is all the more vivid because the events are presented dramatically, evoking feelings as well as intellectual curiosity. In "Scenes of Madness" , Davis discusses the account given by playwrights of the madness afflicting such diverse characters as Orestes, Oedipus, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Dr Faustus, Peer Gynt, Oswald Alving, Ivanov and Blanche Dubois. The madness depicted in plays is put into the context of the crucial experiences in the person's history and current relationships, and is shown to arise out of the crises in systems of relationships and to recover when there is reconciliation. This book should be of interest to psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychoanalysts.

Product Description: A practicing psychotherapist uses case studies and her own experiences to analyze the relationship between patient and doctor, demonstrating how the stories people tell their therapists about themselves determine their mental health and happiness.

Product Description: This book is devoted to the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) in psychiatry; a methodology for collecting reliable and valid data on patterns of behavior, thought, and feeling from real-life situations. ESM thus yields data complementary to that provided by neurobiological approaches to mental illnesses and is applicable to the study and management of a wide variety of mental disorders in their natural settings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A CHRISTIAN'S GUIDE TO MENTAL WELLNESS "PRESENTS A WAY FOR YOU TO ACHIEVE A HIGH-LEVEL AWARENESS OF WHAT YOU THINK AND FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF, YOUR WORLD, EVENTS IN YOUR LIFE, AND YOUR FEELINGS SO THAT YOU CAN MAKE LIFE CHOICES AND TAKE ACTION IN THE FULL LIGHT OF TRUTHFUL CONSCIOUSNESS...read more

Uses the autobiographical writings of the mentally ill from the past to depict what they felt about their condition, life and times

Deepens the reader's understanding of psychopathology through case materials concerning the emotional difficulties and neuroses of children, adolescents, and adults.