This book provides an effective model for helping persons with serious mental illness and is suitable for readers working in psychiatric rehabilita...

This book explores the role of culture in explaining suicidal behaviour. Explanations based on the genes and physiology of individuals, and theorie...

This book discusses the parameters surrounding humanist principles (an optimistic philosophy that believes in the scientific process, human worth a...

Immigrants' voyages to a new land have been among the most exciting and noble of human endeavours. It is the amazing courage to flee oppression, to...

The thrust-area of this book is the connection between imperial anxieties and tropical health situations along with intriguing psychological questi...

Intellectual disability occurs with a frequency of 1-3% within the general population. This impairment is frequently associated with additional fea...

The idea of the International Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences (IPBN) was born as a result of the many occasions where, in the course of wor...

This is both a book on art and a psychiatric manual and at the same time it is neither. It takes a radically different approach by setting out to d...

This new book presents important recent research on cognitive disorders which are disturbances in the mental process related to thinking, reasoning...

This book contains assessments, management options and challenges for individuals with learning disabilities. Chapter One reviews whether there is ...

This book focuses on risk factors, clinical and biological characteristics, and treatment options for depression. The aim of this book is to provid...

Manual signs are used worldwide to support the communication and language development of children who have developmental disabilities. This book pr...

This book explores mental depression; it's forms, causes and treatments. Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad, but these feelings are usually fl...

Research from health psychology and medical science has shown that a considerable number of cancer patients tend to rely on meaning while coping wi...

In this book, the authors present current research in mental health and psychiatry issues. Topics discussed include the cognitive and emotional pro...

Mental retardation is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills ("milestones") during childhood, and a ...

The state of ongoing military conflict in the Middle East and the recent rise in acts of domestic terrorism have created an increasing need for ide...

David Tomasi presents new, groundbreaking research on the science and application of Mind-Body Medicine strategies to improve clinical outcomes in ...

Mounting evidence from preclinical and clinical research suggests that the glutamatergic system is highly involved in the pathophysiology of major ...

This book offers a developmental neuroendocrinologically-oriented perspective in the area of specialized psychiatric care for men termed "Men's Men...

In writing this book, the authors have emphasised current perspectives on the neurobiology of mental disorders, not attempting to provide an exhaus...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a common and severe psychiatric disorder precipitated by exposure to a psychologically distressing event. ...

The aim of this book is to illustrate the state of the art on the scientific exploration of the cerebral bases of consciousness, through the presen...

The neurobiology behind psychiatric disorders is frequently misunderstood and involves numerous complicated pathways and receptors. This book will ...

This book offers a review of current theoretical and research perspectives regarding neuroticism and its impact on job performance and health outco...

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric illnesses affecting both children and adults. Anxiety disorders may develop from a complex set of...

Mania is a medical condition characterised by severely elevated mood. Mania is most usually associated with bipolar disorder, where episodes of man...

This book was written because of the paucity of practical, evidence-based and person-centered information regarding the treatment and management of...

The purpose of this book is to introduce the importance of vitamins and its use in the treatment of schizophrenia, mood and movement disorders. Thi...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder may be seen as a gateway condition from normalcy to pathology with blurred boundaries towards several concurrent disor...

This book presents new and important research from around the world on depression which is a serious medical illness affecting 5 to 8 percent of th...

Depression is a serious problem. Serious problems often need a complex solution. In her description of novel approaches to treating depression, Dr ...

The state of ongoing military conflict in the Middle East and the recent rise in acts of domestic terrorism have created an increasing need for ide...

This book reviews the dimensional conceptualisation of persecutory delusion in the attempt to elucidate the transition from suspicious thinking to ...

Personality Disorders: What We Know and Future Directions For Research first presents an overview of the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ...

This book presents and discusses current research in the field of psychiatry. Topics discussed include fear and anxiety in psychiatric disorders; d...

Researchers from the Budapest Hypnosis Laboratory approach hypnosis as an interactional process, a special encounter between hypnotist and subject....

In this book, the authors gather and present new research in the study of post-traumatic stress disorder. Topics discussed include the diverse emot...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event which results in psychological trau...

In the past several decades, millions of refugees fleeing conflicts across the globe have been resettled in other countries, including industrialis...

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious mental health condition referring to depressive episodes beginning after childbirth. Recognising the impor...

Suicide-proofing a room can prevent suicidal behaviour in incarcerated prisoners and in psychiatric patients. The question addressed is this book i...

Mental illness comes in many qualities and many degrees, from the young patient with low self-esteem and incomplete psychosexual development, to th...

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which the interpretation of reality is abnormal....