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Sociobiology: Sense Or Nonsense?

by Michael Ruse

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 In June 1975, the distinguished Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson published a truly huge book entitled, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. In this book, drawing on both fact and theory, Wilson tried to present a com prehensive overview of the rapidly growing subject of ''sociobiology'', the study of the biological nature and foundations of animal behaviour, more precisely animal social behaviour. Although, as the title rather implies, Wilson was more surveying and synthesising than developing new material, he com pensated by giving the most thorough and inclusive treatment possible, beginning in the animal world with the most simple of forms, and progressing via insects, lower invertebrates, mammals and primates, right up to and in cluding our own species, Homo sapiens. Initial reaction to the book was very favourable, but before the year was out it came under withering attack from a group of radical scientists in the Boston area, who styled themselves ''The Science for the People Sociobiology Study Group''. Criticism, of course, is what every academic gets (and needs!); but, for two reasons, this attack was particularly unpleasant. First, not only were Wilson''s ideas attacked, but he himself was smeared by being linked with the most reactionary of political thinkers, including the Nazis.
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Adult Development - A New Dimension In Psychodynamic Theory And Practice

by Calvin A. Colarusso e Robert A. Nemiroff

~~118,59€~~ 94,87€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Looks at the stages of development adults pass through, including intimacy, marriage, pregnancy, parenthood, work, and midlife crisis.
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Handbook Of Behavior Therapy In The Psychiatric Setting

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 Focusing on patients with severe impairments, including mixed and multiple diagnoses, this volume describes how behavior therapy fits into the clinical environment. It is intended for Psychiatrists, medical clinicians, and residents.
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Evaluating Family Mental Health - History, Epidemiology, And Treatment Issues

by John F. Ice, John J. Schwab e Judith J. Stephenson

~~171,59€~~ 137,27€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 A careful reading provides family therapists and researchers with wonÂ derful opportunities to examine the ways in which history, socioÂ economie and politieal contexts, and epidemiology can be used to inÂ crease understanding of the family.
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Sexual Life - A Clinician’S Guide

by Stephen B. Levine

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 The author has written an unusually fresh work, applying a biopsychosocial approach to the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range and degree of disorders. The book will provide mental health professionals and graduate students with a trustworthy, sophisticated introduction to sexual health and its problems.
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Schizophrenia

by John S. Strauss e William T. Carpenter Jr.

~~171,59€~~ 137,27€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 While the advent of psychophar- macologicalinterventionhas made a profound impact on both individual treatment and the responsive support systems, and is an important aspect ofmosttreatmentplans, to view schizophrenia as a phenothiazine deficiency disease is not only bad science but bad therapeutics.
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Contemporary Perspectives On Psychotherapy With Lesbians And Gay Men

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 The psychiatric view of homosexuality has undergone a fascinating evo lution in recent years. This includes not only the change from viewing homosexuality as a diagnosable illness, as opposed to an alternative life style, but also the development of considerable professional concern for providing appropriate mental health services to this previously under served minority community. There has been an increasing recognition of the need for comprehensive services including, but not limited to, counseling, individual psychotherapy, and couples therapy. This book is written for the practicing clinician, and offers a compre hensive survey of the important clinical issues involved in the counsel ing and psychotherapy of gay men and lesbian women. It is an extraor dinarily practical book and its breadth and depth make it appropriate for both the novice and the experienced therapist. SHERWYN M. WOODS Series Editor ix Preface We hear our mentors but do not often heed them. Freud''s supportive, nonjudgmental approach to homosexuality provided an ambience with in which discoveries could be made, that is, the discovery that homosex uality was not a disease of mental degeneration and that sexuality, in the sense of a fundamental human propensity to find pleasure in social and physical attachments, was at its root directed to both sexes. The ad herence to a nonjudgmental approach was short-lived, suffered repres sion by homophobic defenses, and scientific zeal was directed toward "cure" rather than comprehension of the homosexual state.
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Child And Adult Development - A Psychoanalytic Introduction For Clinicians

by Calvin A. Colarusso

~~232,54€~~ 186,03€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 vii Preface Each year as I gave a lecture series on child and adult development to the adult and child psychiatric residents at the University of California at San Diego, someone inevitably would ask, "Is there a book that I could understand that has all of this information in it?"
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Case Studies In Insomnia

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 The field has attained growing respectability, with a textbook recently published, a congressionally manÂ dated National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, and a growing public awareness of the importance of sleep disorders.
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Deciphering Motivation In Psychotherapy

by David Mark Allen

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 I have often stated to students that I felt that one of the most important characteristics of a psychotherapist is the ability to tolerate ambiguity.
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Evaluation Of The Psychiatric Patient - A Primer

by Seymour L. Halleck

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 I remembered that it had been almost forty years since he wrote A Manual for Psychiatric Case Study, not one of his well-known but probably the most practical of his books.
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Emergency Psychiatry - Concepts, Methods, And Practices

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 of emergency care, The authors consistently present a systematic model emphasizing the interconnection between the process of emergency intervenÂ tion and the specific features of clinical crisis.
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Marital Therapy - A Combined Psychodynamic — Behavioral Approach

by R. Segraves

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 This book is welcomed to the series as a truly unique contribution to the literature on marital therapy.
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Neuropsychiatric Features Of Medical Disorders

by James W. Jefferson

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 When Critical Issues in Psychiatry was conceived, there were several subÂ jects I considered to be of crucial importance in a series devoted to residents and clinicians in psychiatry, as well as to other mental health professionals.
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Drug And Alcohol Abuse - A Clinical Guide To Diagnosis And Treatment

by M. A. Shuckit

~~131,84€~~ 105,47€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 When this series was conceived, a book on substance abuse, including alcohol and alcoholism, was to be of highest priority. We wanted a book that would be concise and easily readable but also comprehensive in its presentation of the basic principles underlying clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management.
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Drug And Alcohol Abuse - A Clinical Guide To Diagnosis And Treatment

by Marc A. Schuckit

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 When this series was conceived, a book on substance abuse, including alcohol and alcoholism, was to be of the highest priority. This priority was a reflection of my view that the subject is often inadequately or insufficient ly taught in many training programs. Few clinicians have had comprehen sive didactic education in this area, despite the frequency with which these problems are encountered in practice. All too often these encounters are in situations in which accurate diagnosis and rapid treatment are of critical im portance. We wanted a book that would be concise and easily readable but also comprehensive in its presentation of the basic principles underlying clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management. It was of particular im portance that the book also serve as an easy reference guide in emergency situations. Marc Schuckit, a man with impeccable credentials as a scholar and an experienced clinician in this field, produced just such a book with his critically acclaimed first edition. That volume rapidly became a resource of great significance for psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and physicians in general. It has been adopted as a text in medical schools and residency train ing, as well as for courses in psychology, emergency medicine, social work, and nursing. The entire volume has been revised and updated to reflect changes in knowledge and clinical practice since the publication of the first edition and in order to keep the comprehensive references current. There is a new chapter on phencyclidine and another on caffeine and nicotine.
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Resident'S Guide To Psychiatric Education

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 This is the inaugural volume of the new series: Critical Issues in Psychiatry: An Educational Series for Residents and Clinicians.
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Freedom Of The Self - The Bio-Existential Treatment Of Character Problems

by Eugene M. Abroms

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 Building on the work of Janet, Jung, and Fairbairn, the author details a comprehensive theory of pathology and integrates the major schools of treatment into a holistic outpatient milieu therapy. Abroms emphasizes the role of personality dissociation in depressive pathologies, and works toward unifying the self into a more aware, spiritually connected whole. Clinicians working from a variety of viewpoints will find fruit in his work.
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States Of Mind - Analysis Of Change In Psychotherapy

by Mardi Horowitz

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 Some will wonder why this book, with its specific focus on the pro cess of change in psychotherapy, was chosen for inclusion in "Crit ical Issues in Psychiatry: A Series for Residents and Clinicians" as our books are generally devoted to a broad topical survey of some im portant clinical area in the practice of psychiatry or a related mental health discipline. The answer will become rapidly apparent to the reader, for Dr. Horowitz has developed an exciting, creative, and practical method whereby any psychotherapist can understand, monitor, conceptualize, and evaluate the process of change in psychotherapy. His method of "configurational analysis" utilizes direct clinical observations of emotional states, role relationships, and information processing to systematically, in a step-by-step fashion, organize and describe clinical data. It can be employed at any point in the therapeutic transaction, from the time of initial presentation to the time of termina tion or follow-up. This method of organizing information about a person, his problems and resources, and the nature of the psychotherapeutic transaction provides the therapist with a powerful tool with which to both understand and communicate how and why change occurs, or does not occur, in psychotherapy. It can be applied all the way from the description of large-scale patterns to the microanalytic dissection and understanding of a small segment of a therapy session.
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Mood Disorders - Toward A New Psychobiology

by Hagop S. Akiskal, Peter C. Whybrow e William T. Mckinney Jr.

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 In this book we present a conceptually integrated approach to disorders of mood. These disorders are defined narrowly as the clinical syndromes of mania and melancholia. The latter is our particular focus, for the simple reason that it is more common and thus more is known about it. Our approach owes much to Adolf Meyer, who first used the term psychobiology. It was he who emphasized in a practical way the importance of the clinician consider ing the joint contribution of psychosocial and biological factors in the genesis of mental disorders. However, until the 1960s, our relative ignorance of basic mechanisms that link brain and behavior prevented the development of a genuine psychobiological perspective. Thus Meyer''s work was concerned largely with teaching the importance of the personal biography and a consideration of social history in the development of mental disorder. We feel that sufficiently rigorous data have now emerged in psychia try to permit tentative but real psychobiological integration. Affective illness is proba bly the most promising area for an attempt at such a synthesis. It is our belief that the theory and clinical practice of psychiatry now can be woven into a coherent theme, integrating insights and evidence generated by the psychodynamic, biological, and behavioral methods; hence in part we review the emerging psychobiology of mood disorders with the hope that it can serve as a generic paradigm for other psychiatric syndromes.
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Race Against Time - Psychotherapy And Psychoanalysis In The Second Half Of Life

by Calvin A. Colarusso e Robert A. Nemiroff

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 This is the second book in the pioneering investigation of adult develop- ment by Robert A. They lay to rest many stereotypes and myths that have long interfered with the dynamic treatment of older patients, and they propose exciting new conceptualizations such as that of adult develop- mental arrests.
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Research In Psychiatry - Issues, Strategies, And Methods

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 This comprehensive and highly readable text is directed to the psychiatric resident and other professionals interested in the issues, strategies, and methods essential to understanding psychiatric research.
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Adolescent Substance Abuse - A Comprehensive Guide To Theory And Practice

by Yifrah Kaminer

~~171,59€~~ 137,27€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 `(This) volume provides a unique and advantageous perspective to the trainees and practitioners in the adolescent substance abuse field.
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Drug And Alcohol Abuse - A Clinical Guide To Diagnosis And Treatment

by Marc A. Schuckit

~~95,40€~~ 76,32€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Extensive changes have been incorporated in this fifth edition of Drug and Alcohol Abuse: A Clinical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, even though the basic structure is similar to prior versions of this text. To help the reader stay current with the most recent developments in the field, an estimated 70% of the references offered here are new and were published since 1994. Especially worthy of note are complete revisions of data on epidemiology and extensive updating focusing on new developments in pharmacology. An emphasis has been placed on incorporating any new developments in treatment, and, reflecting the availabili ty of important new findings, a new chapter has been added on prevention. One thing that hasn''t changed is the overall goal of this series. Drug and Alcohol Abuse: A Clinical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment is structured to be useful in several settings. First, a clinician can use the information regarding the pattern of problems asso ciated with categories of drugs as a guide while making decisions in emergency situations. Second, readers interested in treatment can reevaluate what they consider to be the most ap propriate efforts as part of their ongoing therapeutic protocols. Finally, the background data offered on each category of drugs as well as the extensive references given at the end of each chapter will help people considering entering the alcohol and drug field or those tak ing university courses on substance use disorders to learn more about these important healthcare problems.
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