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The book includes a straightforward explanation clinicians can use with patients, "What is Mentalizing and Why Do It?" -- and also demonstrates the ways in which clinicians are already doing it. Clinicians of all persuasions can benefit from the extensive knowledge now available to hone further their attention to this vital therapeutic process.
This book discusses discoveries that have the potential to revolutionize your clinical approach by changing the ways in which you diagnose and treat patients. Clinicians will learn about the effects on psychiatry of advances in the molecular basis of neuronal network function and the identification of novel molecular targets for drug development.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders During Pregnancy and Postpartum earns its important place in the literature by detailing our current understanding of the course, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric illness during pregnancy and postpartum (including breast-feeding), highlighting risks for mothers and children alike.
Especially helpful for clinicians who have an interest in behavior change but do not possess specialized training in addiction treatment. The study questions at the end of most chapters, accompanied by an answer guide, will help reinforce basic concepts and can be used for self-study, board or general review.
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 ......
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 ......
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.
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.
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.
