Broadly scanning the biologically oriented treatments for psychological disorders in 20th century psychiatry, the authors raise serious questions about the efficacy of the somatic treatments for psychological distress and challenge the widespread preference for biologically based treatments as the treatments of choice. For graduate and undergraduate courses in clinical, social, and health psychology, behavioral medicine, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. psychopharmacology, psychiatry, and clinical social work.

This volume documents how sexual practices and fictions infiltrate and are influenced by a person's feelings about the self and the body. Using paradigms derived from self and body image theory, Fisher combines research from the past several decades dealing with sexual behavior to test major theories concerning diverse sexual phenomena. The book integrates, within a broad conceptual scheme, research findings concerning major aspects of sexual behavior such as the development of sexual competence, orgasm consistence, clitoral versus vaginal preference, and homosexuality.

Company law is a large and complex subject which has expanded rapidly. This is partly due to the need to comply with the European Union directives and regulations and partly due to the increasing complexity of commercial life generally. There has also been a considerable growth in domestically generated reform. All of this places enormous pressure on any company law course. To a certain extent, some topics, such as securities legislation and insolvency, can be isolated and treated separately but there is a considerable interrelated core to company law which has to be covered.