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This work on post-traumatic stress disorder covers: epidemiological risk factors; genetic risk factors; neurocognitive risk factors; psychophysiological expression of risk factors; and risk factors for the acute biological and psychological response to trauma.
Masculinity and Sexuality: Selected Topics in the Psychology of Men sheds light on clinical issues important in the treatment of all male patients. Sexual experiences and related attitudes of patients and therapists influence symptoms, treatment, and outcome across diverse diagnostic categories.
These Scoring Forms provide ample space for recording verbatim responses to interview questions, with check boxes to indicate whether the symptom criteria and duration and impairment requirements are met. A Profile Sheet, perforated for easy removal from the Scoring Form, is included to itemize principal findings and diagnosis. This is a package ......
A complete overview of the rising epidemic of sexually aggressive behaviour among adolescents. A comprehensive approach to the assessment and diagnosis of the adolescent sexual offender, Sexual Aggression is the most current, integrated approach on this topic today.
This text examines psychiatry and the cinema. It looks at the typology, mythology, and ideology of the psychiatry in movies. It also examines psychoanalytic film criticism and such issues as narcissm in the cinema, and phallic women in contemporary cinema.
A compilation of the conclusions of over 30 internationally recognized experts, who each carefully examine the link between personality traits and psychopathology.
Psychological Trauma provides a basis for understanding human response to trauma. The consequences of specific traumas have usually been described as separate entities. This is the first book to examine human response to trauma as a whole.
Psychological Trauma addresses these advances in a critical and thorough approach. The practicing physician will find this volume an indispensable addition to the existing literature.
