Aggression is a complex social behaviour with multiple causes. In psychology, as well as other social and behavioural sciences, aggression refers t...

Go behind the barbed wire and explore the many sanitariums or asylums that were intended to help the mentally ill but only contributed to their aff...

Gerry Harrington's intensely thoughtful and highly informative book draws on her long experience using equine assisted therapy to help educationall...

Parents and mental health practitioners must work together to appropriately assess, diagnose, treat, and prevent mental disorders, emotional disabi...

The state of health and life satisfaction are influenced not only by social and demographic factors, but also by a number of other factors: the rat...

This is the first in a series of three volumes compiling research summaries with a focus on the mind and body. The summaries include contributions ...

This book is the second in a series of three volumes compiling research summaries with a focus on the mind and body. The summaries include contribu...

This book is the third in a series of three volumes compiling research summaries with a focus on the mind and body. The summaries include contribut...

This book compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of mind and body research, as well as research summaries from a number o...

This book provides leading research from around the globe on the topic of personality disorders which is formally referred to as a character disord...

What happens when the place you've loved working at for twenty years asks for a divorce and breaks your heart?"Tapping into her journalistic rigour...

This book covers the whole spectrum of delusional syndromes, which may be presented either as autonomous disorders or as symptoms of other major ps...

Personality disorders are formally referred to as a character disorder or a class of mental disorders characterised by rigid and on-going patterns ...

In 2004, recovery was adopted by the United States Federal government as the most important guiding principle in mental health services and interve...

This book has attempted to highlight the importance of emotions in mental illness. Emotional experiences have an important effect on child developm...

This book examines the role of stress in psychological disorders. Topics discussed include a review of psychosocial stress and health; family stres...

In the first Chapter, Günter Faber examines the way in which academic self-perceptions significantly affect the educational performance of learners...

Sleep debt is a characteristic symptom of modern society, a society that provides services without interruption consumption over 24 hours with the ...

An anthology of first-person stories by patients and their families, "Success Stories from the Frontline" is a frank depiction of what life is like...

Suicidal ideation may be defined as any self-reported thoughts of engaging in suicide related behavior. The first chapter provides a comprehensive ...

The collector is a pseudo sub-species of human who endeavours to amass items for building wealth, in the pursuit of a hobby or, in extreme cases, a...

This unique book is geared for academicians, researchers, and those who train or are considering becoming volunteers. It focuses on those behind th...