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Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are gripping accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake. A college student cannot remember if she has eaten breakfast. By dinner, she is strapped to a hospital bed, convinced she is battling zombies. A man planning to propose marriage instead becomes violently...
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Cette deuxième édition, par des chapitres inédits ou renouvelés et de nouveaux collaborateurs, représente un recueil des interventions de pointe élaborées afin de favoriser le rétablissement des personnes vivant avec un problème de santé mentale important. Des auteurs du Québec, du Canada, des États-Unis et de l'Europe y partagent leur expertise.
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"Bastante tengo con estar loco, como para aguantar además que me llamen enfermo mental". Este comentario de un paciente transmite con lucidez y precisión la oposición entre locura y enfermedad mental, y muestra, asimismo, su preferencia de la primera a la segunda. Las palabras son muy sensibles a los tiempos, las modas y los contextos. Gustan más o menos y son mejor o peor aceptadas dependiendo del ámbito y el momento en que se empleen. A nadie...
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Cracking the Mind-Body Cipher
Dr. Niall (Jock) McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist who uses philosophical analysis to show that modern psychiatry has no scientific basis. This startling conclusion dovetails neatly with the growing evidence that psychiatric drug treatment is crude and damaging. Needless to say, this message is not popular with mainstream psychiatrists. However, in this book, he shows how the principles of information processing give...
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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,...
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As a doctor of the human psyche for 54 years, R. Duncan Wallace, M.D. has discovered valuable psychological truths that create most of our mental and emotional functioning in all areas of living. Rarely are they, used knowingly because they are largely unconscious and unknown, until now. In The Great Little Book of Stress Release, Dr. Wallace discusses their application to the area of stress. You will learn:
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During the late nineteenth-century, Dr. Sigmund Freud introduced a theory about human nature that has continued to hinder medical and psychiatric progress for over a century. Freud's approach, called psychoanalysis, ignored differences in human physiology. He presumed that all problematic symptoms or unusual behaviors were rooted in perverted thoughts. He was mistaken. Freud, a medical doctor, overlooked a fundamental medical procedure: the physical...
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TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE IN YOUR MENTAL HEALTH
Both easy to use and highly informative, The Complete Guide to Psychiatric Drugs is an indispensable reference for both patients and professionals. Now in a revised and expanded edition, this up-to-date handbook supplies current information on the newest and most commonly used psychiatric drugs as well as the latest details regarding side effects, dosages, and precautions.
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In Anxiety--The Inside Story, the author takes a critical look at modern psychiatry's twin notions that all mental disorders are biological in nature, but anxiety is hardly worth worrying about. By the simple process of taking a careful, detailed history, Niall McLaren shows that anxiety is far more common and far more destructive than mainstream psychiatry realizes. Detailed case histories chart how anxiety arises as a psychological disorder and...
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"Neuropsychopharmacology: An Introduction" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to introduce the basic concepts of neuropsychopharmacology, which is an interdisciplinary study of neuroscience, psychology and pharmacology, integrating the neurobiological basis of psychiatric medicine in treating mental disorders.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations....
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"Schizophrenia" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the characteristics, symptoms and treatment of schizophrenia, including the pathology and etiology of the mental disorder.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are introduced...
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An exposé of the current state of psychiatry that reveals how the pursuit of pharmaceutical riches has compromised patients' well-being In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has become the fastest-growing medical field in history; why psychiatric drugs are now more widely prescribed than ever before; and why psychiatry, without solid scientific justification,...
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This Book is about Mass Killing and why it occurs. The author Jacques J. Ohayon, Ph.D., has studied almost every incident that falls into the category of a Mass Killing in which the perpetrator is immediately apprehended or commits suicide since 2016. This group comprises the majority of the incidents going back to the Columbine, Colorado massacre in 1999. How To Prevent Mass Shooting reflects the finding that the majority of Mass Killers are medical...
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Eating disorders are one of the most common but elusive conditions to treat in all of Psychiatry. While current treatments do help some patients with eating disorders, many individuals receive little to no benefit from treatment options, leading to a lifelong struggle with anxiety around eating and body image.
In this book, Michael Lutter, MD/PhD, presents the developement of his new program Gifted: Genetic Information for Treating Eating Disorders....
17) Conquering PTSD
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Do you have PTSD, but therapy hasn't helped? Has it maybe even made it worse? This groundbreaking new PTSD book, written in plain english, will help you understand how PTSD forms in the first place, and how to finally conquer it.You'll walk through actual patient experiences as Dr. Hans Watson explains to his patient how the patient's PTSD was created, and helps him overcome it.Dr. Watson is not only a board-certified psychiatrist with extensive study...
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Prozac and its chemical cousins, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft, are some of the most profitable and most widely used drugs in America. Their use in the treatment of a multitude of disorders--from generalized anxiety disorder and premenstrual syndrome to eating disorders and sexual compulsions--has provoked a whirlwind of public debate. Talk shows ask, Why is Prozac so popular? What, exactly, do these drugs treat? But sustained critical discussion among...
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Nueva versión, revisada y ampliada, que enriquece el estudio de la entrevista y de los indicadores en psicoterapia y psicoanálisis, a la vez que los actualiza a la luz de nuevas reflexiones y los aportes.
Este libro trata básicamente de dos cuestiones: por una parte, de la comprensión de la dinámica y la técnica concomitante de la entrevista realizada a pacientes para valorar si son susceptibles de una ayuda psicoterapéutica o psicoanalítica;...
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El caso 'Nina', la enuresis infantil, la aplicación de la hipnosis para corregir la sordomudez. He allí algunas de las nuevas entradas que este libro impone al siempre incompleto tesauro freudiano.
Este volumen contiene la traducción al español de materiales autógrafos de Sigmund Freud que no figuran en ninguna de las ediciones de sus mal llamadas Obras Completas, con el agregado de algunas reseñas sobre conferencias que brindara en la Viena...
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