Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Mental Health

This book covers the basic science and neurobiology of violence and integrates this with clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of forensic psychiatry.

• Unique text which integrates the basic sciences, clinical, legal, and ethical aspects
• Highly illustrated. Numerous colour images in the basic sciences section further explain the text
• Succinct yet comprehensive coverage for instant access to the information

The book is designed for postgraduate trainees in psychiatry wishing to specialise in forensic psychiatry, specialists in forensic psychiatry,...

As Caribbean communities become more international, clinicians and scholars must develop new paradigms for understanding treatment preferences and perceptions of illness. Despite evidence supporting the need for culturally appropriate care and the integration of traditional healing practices into conventional health and mental health care systems, it is unclear how such integration would function since little is known about the therapeutic interventions of Caribbean healing traditions.

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Caribbean Healing Traditions: " "Implications for Health and Mental Health "fills this gap....

"I have entitled this book "For Love of the Imagination." Long ago, I fell in love with the imagination. It was love at first sight. I have had a lifelong love affair with the imagination. I would love for others, through this book, to fall in love, as I once did, with the imagination." Michael Vannoy Adams, from the Preface.

"For Love of the Imagination" is a book about the imagination about what and how images mean. Jungian psychoanalysis is an imaginal psychology or what Michael Vannoy Adams calls "imaginology," the study of the imagination. What is so distinctive and so valuable...

The subgroup of males with eating disorders has been understudied, and this book presents the most comprehensive look at this topic since Arnold Andersen edited the text" Males with Eating Disorders" in 1990. This monograph represents both original research and reviews of other studies based on a special issue of "Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, "with additional added chapters. Representing international contributions from researchers and clinicians in nine countries, this cross-section includes chapters on etiology, sociocultural and gender issues, symptom...

This book delves into risks that can easily bedevil any psychotherapist and what can happen if they are ignored. Dramatic storytelling, based on actual incidents from the author s experiences as a member of ethics committees and as an ethics teacher and consultant, explores actions prompting clients to issue formal complaints. Set in the context of an ethics committee meeting over the course of a weekend, twelve psychologists face their peers who will stand in judgment. Issues include the fallout from losing one s temper with a difficult client, a personal disclosure gone terribly wrong, a...

Advances in science and the humanities have demonstrated the complexity of psychological, social and neurological factors influencing identity. A contemporary discourse is needed to anchor the concepts required in speaking about identity in present day understanding. In Identity and the New Psychoanalytic Explorations of Self-organization, Mardi Horowitz offers new ways of speaking about parts of self, explaining what causes a range of experiences from solidity in grounding the self to disturbances in a sense of identity.

The book covers many aspects of both the formation...