Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings
ISBN: 9780140274349 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In classic books such as Girl, Interrupted and When Rabbit Howls, the mentally ill depict their own harrowing worlds. In Mad House we have an account of the devastating effects of mental illness on the lives of those who share their world?the healthy siblings of those afflicted. Clea Simon was shattered when her older brother, Daniel, a freshman at Harvard, began hearing voices, making it impossible for him to function. He later committed suicide. Schizophrenia next claimed her sister, Katherine, who has moved from one institution to another after refusing any help from...
In classic books such as Girl, Interrupted and When Rabbit Howls, the mentally ill depict their own harrowing worlds. In Mad House
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Recovery from Schizophrenia: An International Perspective
ISBN: 9780195313673 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 1960s, the World Health Organization initiated a series of international studies of the incidence, characteristics, course, and consequences of schizophrenia. Those studies - the largest ever in the history of psychiatry - provided important data about the disorder in groups of patients living in different countries and cultures, and first focused attention on the differences in short-term prognosis for schizophrenia between the third world and industrialized countries. In the 1990s, the International Study of Schizophrenia (ISoS) set out to relocate those subjects and to...
In the late 1960s, the World Health Organization initiated a series of international studies of the incidence, characteristics, course, and consequenc...
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Chronic Schizophrenia
ISBN: 9780415264501 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1958 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1958 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number...
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Why Does Schizophrenia Develop at Late Adolescence?: A Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Psychosis
ISBN: 9780470848777 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments around the world have given priority to "early intervention," i.e. the early diagnosis and treatment of young adults with psychotic symptoms.
One of the main problems with this approach, is that only a small proportion of these young adults can be expected to go on to develop schizophrenia, yet all the treatment regimes are derived from work with adults who have had full psychotic episodes. Why Does Schizophrenia Develop at Late Adolescence? proposes a controversial new model of how schizophrenia develops in late adolescence and presents clinical material aimed at... Governments around the world have given priority to "early intervention," i.e. the early diagnosis and treatment of young adults with psychotic sympto...
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Physical Illness and Schizophrenia: A Review of the Evidence
ISBN: 9780521882644 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is well established that people suffering from schizophrenia have a higher prevalence of serious physical illness and a higher mortality than the general population. This book provides the first comprehensive and systematic review of current research evidence on the prevalence of physical diseases in people with schizophrenia, a disorder afflicting approximately 1% of the global population, and a group with mortality rates twice as high as the general population. The epidemiological data described in this book will provide the basis for improved awareness of these problems and better...
It is well established that people suffering from schizophrenia have a higher prevalence of serious physical illness and a higher mortality than the g...
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What is Schizophrenia and How Can We Fix It?
ISBN: 9780761826637 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is Schizophrenia and How Can We Fix It?is an attempt to present a balanced overview of research and theory on the causes and treatment of schizophrenia. This work provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of contemporary theory and research on schizophrenia as well as the historical background of this mental illness. It also details the diagnostic issues, epidemiology, neurobiological research and psychopharmacology.
What is Schizophrenia and How Can We Fix It?is an attempt to present a balanced overview of research and theory on the causes and treatment of schizop...
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The Outsider: A Journey Into My Father's Struggle with Madness
ISBN: 9780767901918 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Outsider is an unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at one family's experience with mental illness. In 1978, Charles Lachenmeyer was a happily married professor of sociology who lived in the New York suburbs with his wife and nine-year-old son, Nathaniel. But within a few short years, schizophrenia-a devastating mental illness with no known cure-would cost him everything: his sanity, his career, his family, even the roof over his head. Upon learning of his father's death in 1995, Nathaniel set out to search for the truth behind his father's haunted, solitary existence....
The Outsider is an unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at one family's experience with mental illness. In 1978, Charles Lachenmeyer...
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Growing Up with a Schizophrenic Mother
ISBN: 9780786408207 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An estimated two to three million people in the United States today were raised by a schizophrenic parent. Brown and Roberts offer a unique book based on interviews with over forty adult children of mothers diagnosed as schizophrenic. Such topics as the isolation their family felt, their chaotic home environments, their present relationships with their mothers, and the lost potential of mother and child are covered. Their stories are fascinating and provide important information to both the mental health community and the lay public. The offspring have been described as having higher rates of...
An estimated two to three million people in the United States today were raised by a schizophrenic parent. Brown and Roberts offer a unique book based...
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125,01 zł |
Understanding and Treating Schizophrenia: Contemporary Research, Theory, and Practice
ISBN: 9780789018878 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive overview of schizophrenia and its treatment from a variety of approaches. The book presents a balanced look at the most influential theroetical perspectives based on empirical research, clinical descriptions, and narrative histories.
A comprehensive overview of schizophrenia and its treatment from a variety of approaches. The book presents a balanced look at the most influential th...
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358,54 zł |
Understanding and Treating Schizophrenia : Contemporary Research, Theory, and Practice
ISBN: 9780789018885 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive overview of schizophrenia and its treatment from a variety of approaches. The book presents a balanced look at the most influential theroetical perspectives based on empirical research, clinical descriptions, and narrative histories.
A comprehensive overview of schizophrenia and its treatment from a variety of approaches. The book presents a balanced look at the most influential th...
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Schizophrenia: Innovations in Diagnosis and Treatment
ISBN: 9780789022691 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ross presents a new theory outlining a previously unknown dissociative subtype of schizophrenia related to psychological trauma that can be treated primarily with psychotherapy as opposed to medication. Aimed at clinicians, researchers, and students, this text uses a number of case studies to explain the role of trauma in the development of psychop
Ross presents a new theory outlining a previously unknown dissociative subtype of schizophrenia related to psychological trauma that can be treated pr...
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Schizophrenia : Innovations in Diagnosis and Treatment
ISBN: 9780789022707 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colin Ross presents a new theory of the existence of a dissociative subtype of schizophrenia related to psychological trauma, than can be treated with psychotherapy as opposed to medications.
Colin Ross presents a new theory of the existence of a dissociative subtype of schizophrenia related to psychological trauma, than can be treated with...
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The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind
ISBN: 9780801498992 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Insanity in clinical practice as in the popular imagination is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a work of uncommon insight and empathy, Louis A. Sass shatters conventional thinking about insanity by juxtaposing the narratives of delusional schizophrenics with the philosophical writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein."
Insanity in clinical practice as in the popular imagination is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not...
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Schizophrenia: An Integrated Approach to Research and Treatment
ISBN: 9780814711811 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book offers practicing psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, psychiatric residents, and social workers an invaluable overview of what is currently known about schizophrenia- Its etiology, management, and treatment. This important book offers practicing psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, psychiatric residents, and social workers an invaluable overview of... |
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Working with the Person with Schizophrenia
ISBN: 9780814778913 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The person with schizophrenia poses a formidable challenge even to the experienced clinician. Bizarre, unpredictable behavior, disordered thought patterns, peculiar, even unintelligible speech, and extreme distrust can drastically limit the clinician's ability to conduct therapy. It is often seemingly impossible to determine the cause of these behaviors: Are they a result of the disease, the side effects of drugs, or the patient's efforts to cope? In this brilliant and insightful book, Dr. Michael Selzer and his colleagues offer a radical new perspective on understanding and treating... The person with schizophrenia poses a formidable challenge even to the experienced clinician. Bizarre, unpredictable behavior, disordered thought p... |
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Schizophrenia: The Science of Mental Health
ISBN: 9780815337461 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Science of Mental Health is a one-stop resource for major issues and classic controversies in mental health. To create this collection, a leading expert in the field has reviewed thousands of articles in hundreds of scientific journals. The result is an authoritative selection that represents the most significant research worldwide and provides a balanced perspective on the field.
The Science of Mental Health is a one-stop resource for major issues and classic controversies in mental health. To create this collection, a leading ...
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Compliance with Treatment in Schizophrenia: Maudsley Monographs Number Thirty-Seven
ISBN: 9780863774225 / Angielski / Twarda / 83 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a myth that people with mental disorders comply poorly with treatment. In fact, psychiatric patients are no more likely than patients in other medical specialities to go against the advice of their doctor. That said, it is easy to find instances where psychotropic medication is refused by the supposed beneficiary. The value of neuroleptic treatment in schizophrenia is now widely accepted. Failure to take such treatment is associated with relapse and relapse may endanger the patient and other people. Despite this, people with schizophrenia frequently fail to take their treatment. This...
There is a myth that people with mental disorders comply poorly with treatment. In fact, psychiatric patients are no more likely than patients in othe...
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145,47 zł |
Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: The Treatment of Choice
ISBN: 9780876684443 / Angielski / Twarda / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important new book which is a stunning attempt by two knowledgeable, persevering psychotherapists to present their understanding and sound therapeutic approach to dealing with the difficulties and challenges of schizophrenic patients.
An important new book which is a stunning attempt by two knowledgeable, persevering psychotherapists to present their understanding and sound therapeu...
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Can a Virus Cause Schizophrenia?: Facts and Hypotheses
ISBN: 9781402073007 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose ofthis book isto provide acritical appraisal oftheconcept thatschizophreniacan becaused by viralinfections. The ability of viruses to cause psychiatric symptoms is not in question - the mental depression following a bout with mononucleosis or hallucinations associated with herpesencephalitisarewell-described examples. However, aviraloriginfor chronic disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder, is another matter. The claim of an infectious etiology for these disorders has beenmetinthemainstream scientific community byavagueskepticism that occasionally erupts into...
The purpose ofthis book isto provide acritical appraisal oftheconcept thatschizophreniacan becaused by viralinfections. The ability of viruses to caus...
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Father, Have I Kept My Promise?: Madness as Seen from Within
ISBN: 9781557533630 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1937 Edith had received a doctorate in psychology from the University of Vienna, and high recommendations from her famous teachers. Her career prospects looked bright indeed. But a year later, she was a refugee from Hitler's war on Jews. She left her Nazi-occupied homeland and immigrated to the United States in 1939. In the United States, she pursued her career in psychology as a professor at prominent universities as well as a clinical consultant for the State of Indiana. As a psychology professor at Purdue, she contracted tuberculosis and spent 1962-64 in a tuberculosis hospital. Before...
In 1937 Edith had received a doctorate in psychology from the University of Vienna, and high recommendations from her famous teachers. Her career pros...
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