Aging 2000: Our Health Care Destiny

Volume II: Psychosocial and Policy Issues

by N.L. Wilson, Charles M. Gaitz & G. Niederehe

<p>The seventeenth annual symposium sponsored by the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences was held October 23-26, 1983, in Houston, Texas. The theme was Aging 2000: Our Health Care Destiny. This volume on social, psychological, economic, ...

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Agression: Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment

by Coccaro, Emil

<P>This text studies genetic, developmental and biopsychosocial models of aggression; additional forms of antisocial behaviour; and risk factors including poverty and peer rejection for improved understanding of the pathways possibly ...

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Alcohol

Science, Policy and Public Health

by Peter Boyle, Paolo Boffetta, Albert B. Lowenfels & others

<p>Alcohol has always been an issue in public health but it is currently assuming increasing importance as a cause of disease and premature death worldwide. Alcohol: Science, Policy, and Public Health provides an interdisciplinary source of ...

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Alcohol Metabolism, Alcohol Intolerance, and Alcoholism

Biochemical and Pharmacogenetic Approaches

by Dharam P. Agarwal & H. Werner Goedde

<p>Alcohol abuse, alcohol intolerance, alcohol dependence and other alcohol-related disabilities are some of the most challenging public health problems facing our modern-day society. The purpose of this comprehensive monograph is to review the ...

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Alcoholism

Services Research in the Era of Managed Care

by Marc Galanter

<p>From the President ofthe Research Society onAlcoholism - On behalf of the Research Society on Alcoholism I welcome the important contri bution that Volume 15 of this excellent series on Recent Developments in Alcoh- ism brings to our field. ...

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Alcoholism

A Guide for the Primary Care Physician

by A. Abrams, Julius B. Richmond, M.D. Aronson & others

<p>Based on the Commonwealth Harvard Alcohol Research and Teaching Program, this clinically oriented work is designed to give internists and primary care practitioners the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and care for patients with ...

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Alcoholism and Clinical Psychiatry

by Joel Solomon

<p>It is well known that alcoholism continues to be one of this country's major public health problems. This issue is carefully documented by Dr. Gerald Klerman, Chief of ADAMHA, in the second chapter ofthis volume. In spite of the major role ...

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Alexithymia

Advances in Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice

by Olivier Luminet, R. Michael Bagby & Graeme J. Taylor

<p>Alexithymia is a personality trait characterised by difficulty identifying and describing subjective emotional feelings, a restricted imagination, and an externally oriented style of thinking. Individuals with high levels of this trait are at

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All We Have to Fear

Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders

by Allan V. Horwitz, PhD & Jerome C. Wakefield, DSW, PhD

<p>Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic? In <em>All ...

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Alternative perspectives on psychiatric validation

DSM, ICD, RDoC, and Beyond

by Peter Zachar, Drozdstoj St. Stoyanov, Massimiliano Aragona & others

<p>Many of the current debates about validity in psychiatry and psychology are predicated on the unexpected failure to validate commonly used diagnostic categories. The recognition of this failure has resulted in, what Thomas Kuhn calls, a ...

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Alzheimer Disease

Neuropsychology and Pharmacology

by Gérard Emilien, Cécile Durlach, Kenneth L. Minaker & others

<p>Alzheimer disease (AD) has become the most common form of dementia in industrialized countries and represents an increasing burden at the economic, social and medical level. In discussing both the biological aspects of AD as well as the ...

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Alzheimer's and other Dementias

by Julian C. Hughes

<p>With more people in the world living into older age, Alzheimer's and other Dementias: The Facts takes a comprehensive look at the spread of dementia, and provides authoritative information and practical advice for sufferers, their families, ...

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Alzheimer’s Turning Point

A Vascular Approach to Clinical Prevention

by Jack C. de la Torre

<p>This compelling text provides an overview of the available technology for early detection and therapeutic management of vascular risk factors to Alzheimer’s before severe cognitive impairment symptoms appear. Chapters bring the reader from ...

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An Empirical Investigation into Child Abuse and Neglect in India

Burden, Impact and Protective Measures

by Sibnath Deb

<p>This book provides a comprehensive overview of child abuse and neglect globally in general terms and with empirical evidence from Puducherry, India. The study unearths the reality concerning child safety and raises a number of questions about

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An Experiential Approach to Psychopathology

What is it like to Suffer from Mental Disorders?

by Giovanni Stanghellini & Massimiliano Aragona

<p>This book introduces the reader to a clear and consistent method for in-depth exploration of subjective psychopathological experiences with the aim of helping to restore the ability within psychiatry and clinical psychology to draw ...

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An International Perspective on Disasters and Children's Mental Health

by Christina W. Hoven, Lawrence V. Amsel & Sam Tyano

<p>This book provides a broad international perspective on the psychological trauma faced by children and adolescents exposed to major disasters, and on the local public health response to their needs. An outstanding quality of the book is that ...

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Anesthesia Management for Electroconvulsive Therapy

Practical Techniques and Physiological Background

by Shigeru Saito

<p>In this book, recognized anesthesiology experts present the latest findings on anesthesia for electro-convulsive therapy (ECT). With the development of modified electroconvulsive therapy (m-ECT) and devices to provide brief-pulse stimulation,

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Another Twinkle in the Eye

Contemplating Another Pregnancy After Perinatal Mental Illness

by Elaine Hanzak

<p><strong>Another Twinkle in the Eye</strong>is an essential guide for anyone contemplating another pregnancy after perinatal mental illness. The decision to bring a child into the world is rarely one that is taken lightly. When a previous ...

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Antipsychotic Long-acting Injections

by Peter Haddad, Tim Lambert & John Lauriello

<p>Antipsychotic Long-acting Injections (LAIs) were introduced in the 1960s to improve treatment adherence in schizophrenia. Subsequently, first-generation antipsychotic LAIs became widely used in many countries. Since the initial publication of

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Antipsychotic Trials in Schizophrenia

The CATIE Project

by T. Scott Stroup & Jeffrey A. Lieberman

<p>Antipsychotic medications are a key treatment for schizophrenia and sales of antipsychotic drugs approach $20 billion per year, with fierce marketing between the makers of the drugs. The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health sponsored the ...

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