Product Description: The Medicalization of Psychotherapy: Practicing under the Influence is an ethnographic account of the practice of clinical psychology under the reductionist auspices of biomedicine. Using Peircean semiotic analysis focusing in particular on modes in meaning-making, Sylvia Olney proposes that consciousness should be accorded the same conceptual and value status as “nature” and the human body...read more

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Product Description: Helping patients and their families understand the factors and considerations when deciding whether or not to take psychotropic drugs. This important volume provides a thorough overview of a range of mental disorders, describing how they are affected by various medications and other interventions, to foster a strong alliance between family, patient, and clinician...read more

Product Description: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] Irving Kirsch has the world doubting the efficacy of antidepressants. Do they work, or are they no better than placebos? Like his colleagues, Kirsch spent years referring patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs...read more

This book is designed to fill a need for a comprehensive but compact and easy-to-use reference for all mental health professionals dealing with children and adolescents. The new edition of the widely praised handbook summarizes the latest information from the published literature (scientific data, controlled clinical trials, case reports) and clinical experience in compact and easy-to-use charts and bulleted lists for each class of psychotropic drug used in children and adolescents. The spiralbound handbook includes for each class of drugs both monograph statements on use in children and adolescents and approved indications, as well as the available data concerning off-label indications, findings from open and double-blind studies concerning doses, adverse affects, and other considerations in these age groups. For each class of drug, summary information is provided on: Classification; Product availability; Indications; Pharmacology; Dosing; Pharmacokinetics; Adverse effects; Withdrawal; Precautions; Toxicity; Nursing implications; Drug interactions; Contraindications; Patient instructions; and Interactions.