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Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V offers clinicians, academicians, and nosologists an in-depth look at how obsessive-compulsive phenomena are represented in the current diagnostic system and how DSM-V might better address the needs of patients with these disorders.
A comprehensive, authoritative work designed to be invaluable to clinicians, researchers, and people struggling with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) and those who care about them. This book offers a systematic exploration, with chapters on every facet of the disorder from leading experts on scientific techniques.
Normal Child and Adolescent Development: A Psychodynamic Primer is a thorough introduction to how development unfolds as a complex transactional process progressing through the first three decades of life. The book embraces a nonlinear multisystem approach while maintaining the touchstones of traditional developmental phases.
This book is an important tool for clinicians, outlining a framework for understanding, diagnosing, treating, and preventing these little understood disorders. This new second edition extensively updates and revises the first edition, integrating an explosion of new findings that have occurred since the earlier edition was published in 1989.
From Phenomenology to Neurobiology and Enhancing Technologies
Neurodiversity: From Phenomenology to Neurobiology and Enhancing Technologies is an introduction to the strengths-based model of neurodiversity (SBMN), designed to integrate and build on existing theories of positive psychology, positive psychiatry, multiple intelligences, and developmental psychology and to apply them.
This book teaches psychiatrists, mental health professionals, and administrators how reviewers think and how to present a case in a manner that greatly increases the likelihood that a reviewer will approve the request for care. Issues are highlighted in vignettes illustrating a clinician's presentation of a case and a typical reviewer's comments.
Get some fresh air. For centuries, that has been common advice for those looking to find peace of mind, greater calm, a jolt of inspiration, or a fresh perspective. Although the conventional wisdom is generations old, it is only relatively recently that a robust body of empirical evidence has begun to support natures therapeutic properties.
Over the last two decades, spurred particularly by the decoding of the genome, neuroscience has advanced to become the primary basis of clinical psychiatry, even as environmental risk factors for mental disorders have been deemphasized. In this thoroughly revised, second edition of Nature and Nurture in Mental Disorders, the author argues that an ......
Diagnostic Dilemmas and Treatment Strategies With Narcissistic Patients
Integrating contemporary research with psychoanalytic theory, this volume offers clinicians strategies for dealing with the complex situations that can arise when treating patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). The very act of defining narcissism can be a difficult one. This guide recognises the challenge and provides a number of ......
