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“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller
 
Trauma...

In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through 85 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and lays out an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances - a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that...

"Serving as an indispensable resource for students and general-interest readers alike, this three-volume work provides a comprehensive view of mental health that covers both mental well-being and mental illness"-- "The quest to understand mental health and its disorders is first noted in the writings of the Ancient Greeks. With today's new technologies and constant research, scientists have uncovered many causes of mental disorders and conditions...

"Brilliant Harvard psychiatrist Jordan Smoller reveals the hidden side of our everyday behaviors and addresses one of society's most enduring questions: What do we mean by "normal?" And what does this tell us about "abnormal?""--

A spoof on the gangster roles that have been associated with De Niro's film career, this is the story of an anxiety-ridden Mafia boss who monopolizes the services of a family psychiatrist.

World’s eminent researcher of love and close relationships, author of global media sensation 36 Questions That Lead To Love Arthur Aron, PhD and bestselling author-psychologist Elaine Aron, PhD whose international bestseller revolutionized how we view and identify HSPs created SENSITIVE LOVERS: A DEEPER LOOK INTO THEIR RELATIONSHIPS documentary as a sequel to original documentary Sensitive-The Untold Story, featuring Alanis Morissette. In Sensitive...

Has PTSD invaded your world? Are you always walking on eggshells? Feel like nothing you do is right. Are you the victim of physical, emotional or verbal abuse? Are you in a relationship with someone who suffers from PTSD? Then this book is a must read for you. There is hope! So many spouses of PTSD sufferers have the false belief that nobody can understand what they are going through. Believe me when I say, you are not alone. There are literally thousands...

Anyone who has ever enjoyed the honor to lecture a graduate school audience will tell you that simplicity in delivery as a goal is a worthwhile pragmatic and theoretical virtue if and only the expected and appropriate cognitive content are aimed at the student and not for self indulgence, independent of the corresponding level of complexity to be communicated. There is a tacit presumption that selling/marketing an idea by a professor implies there...

When Dr. Paul Garfinkel started his career in psychiatry in the 1970s, psychoanalysis dominated the profession. Then the pendulum swung the other way. Psychoanalysis was discredited and drugs became the treatment of choice for mental illness. Throughout his career, Garfinkel has struggled to find a balance between these two poles, between compassion and human touch on one hand and the rigour of science and the prescribed drugs that have revolutionized...

Conferencia impartida en el acot de apertura de la XXXI edición de la Univeristat d'Estiu de Gandia, el 21 de julio de 2015, a cargo de Rafael Tabarés Seisdedos, Catedrático de Psiquiatría de la Universitat de València e investigador principal de uno de los grupos del Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Salud Mental (CIBERSAM). Tabarés explica cómo desde un punto de vista patológico, el siglo XXI comienza como un periodo psicopatológico,...