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A fresh, engaging, and easy-to-read psychedelic therapy guide. Learn about psychedelics and a promising new mental health therapy program.
Nearly forty years ago, Dr. Peter Silverstone was a young MD who took up a new position in psychopharmacology research at Oxford University. Since then, the field has bloomed into a spectrum of possibilities that includes the use of psychedelics as a treatment for depression, addiction, PTSD, grief, and anxiety.
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The untold story of the flamboyant and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia with her exploits.
Bee Miles was notorious for jumping in and out of taxis and trams without paying her fare, reciting Shakespeare in public, and sleeping on city monuments. But she was no ordinary vagrant.
Born into a wealthy Sydney family and highly educated, she was part of the city's literary and artistic circles in the 1930s. She was the subject...
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SHRUNK: Crime and Disorders of the Mind is a collection of powerful stories by international forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about the many complex mental health issues they face and the care involved in dealing with them. Unlike any other book within the genre of True Crime, Shrunk forms a unique bridge between mental health and law. Chapters focus on cases where judges and juries call upon the opinions of forensic experts when...
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Why do most of us enjoy being alive? Psychologist Dr. C A Soper argues that a zest for life evolved as a survival necessity, ultimately because our species and ours alone, has to live with the possibility of suicide. Suicide may have been our ancestors' most formative evolutionary problem, solutions to which have shaped the construction of the human mind and touch on almost every aspect of our day-to-day experience. The emergence of anti-suicide defenses...
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A classic in its field, Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple offers everything you need to know about the use of psychoactive medications in the treatment of childhood and adolescent psychological disorders in easy-to-understand language.
This fully revised and updated fourth edition offers new information on sleep disorders, sleep medication, and substance abuse. You'll also find up-to-date DSM-5 definitions, information...
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Traumatized veterans are often diagnosed as suffering from a psychiatric disorder and prescribed a regimen of psychotherapy and psychiatric drugs. But why, asks psychologist Paula J. Caplan in this impassioned book, is it a mental illness to be devastated by war or other intolerable experiences such as military sexual assault? What is a mentally healthy response to death, destruction, and moral horror? In When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, Caplan...
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The capacity to comply with abusive authority is humanity's fatal flaw. Fortunately, within the human family there are anti-authoritarians-people comfortable questioning the legitimacy of authority and challenging and resisting its illegitimate forms. However, as Resisting Illegitimate Authority reveals, authoritarians attempt to marginalize anti-authoritarians, who are scorned, shunned, financially punished, psychopathologized, criminalized, and...
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All human behaviors and traits, according to this 1923 study, derive from the complicated interactions of three elements of the psyche: the id, the ego, and the superego. The root of Sigmund Freud's approach to psychiatric treatment resides in bringing the id, the hidden source of human passion, to the surface. The ego - formed to negotiate the id's interactions with reality - and the superego - the critical, moralistic part of the mind - remain in...
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Why is humanity by far the most successful animal in the animal kingdom, but when it comes to survival of the fittest, we pull against the impulse toward natural selection? Unique among vertebrates, humans develop and practice varied forms of dysfunctional or maladaptive behavior, the graver of which are categorized as mental disorders, which doesn't sustain our species. Fuchs explains why this is the case, setting his discussion within the fields...
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La expansión de la psiquiatría y la psicología en los últimos decenios, la hegemonía del modelo biomédico en salud mental y la transformación de la atención sanitaria en un mercado extraordinariamente rentable, son algunos de los factores que favorecen que se dañe a los pacientes. Todo ello amparado en una autoridad que muchas veces está basada en conocimientos pseudocientíficos, y que ejerce su poder imponiendo una única forma de entender...
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Employing accessible language throughout, this book covers the history of psychiatric research, the current state-of-the art in psychiatric practice, the physiological systems affected by psychiatric illnesses, the whole-body nature of these diseases and the impact that this aspect has on emerging biomarker discoveries.
Further, it provides descriptions of the major specific psychiatric disorders and the special challenges regarding the diagnosis...
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Depression. Anxiety. Bipolar. Schizophrenia. Trichotillomania. These are just a few of the many mental disorders that affect millions worldwide. What really happens when you or a loved one is diagnosed with mental illness? What therapies work best? Can a cure be found? Will life ever return to normal?
In Living with Mental Illness, ordinary people who live with different mental illnesses invite readers inside their world and open up to give honest-and...
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Violencia colectiva y salud mental: contexto, trauma y reparación pretende ser un recurso para la reflexión y una herramienta de trabajo para quienes, en su experiencia práctica, tratan de plantear aportes constructivos con los que entender los mecanismos y efectos de la violencia, donde instituciones, terapeutas y personas afectadas, entre otros actores, han de tener un papel relevante.
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Iñaki Markez Alonso es psiquiatra en Avances...
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La atención psicosocial en Brasil, el conjunto de estrategias y principios en el campo de la salud mental que se está instaurando en las últimas décadas por todo este inmenso país, es responsable de un nuevo escenario político en el que hay un efectivo proceso de participación y construcción social sin igual en ningún otro lugar del mundo. Lo que la reforma brasileña está configurando, nos dice Paulo Amarante en las páginas de este libro,...
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Este libro trata sobre los trastornos mentales menos graves y más frecuentes. Indaga sobre sus conexiones con procesos psicológicos, sociales y también biológicos. Describe cuáles son los determinantes de la demanda de ayuda, cómo se organiza su atención en el sistema público de salud y qué podría hacerse para mejorarla. Asimismo, discute diferentes formas de conceptualizar y clasificar este malestar psicológico y cuáles son las intervenciones...
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A thoughtful examination of psychotherapy from Erich Fromm, a celebrated leader in the field Over the course of a distinguished career, Erich Fromm built a reputation as a talented speaker and gifted psychoanalyst-the first specialization of this polymath. The Art of Listening is a transcription of a seminar Fromm gave in 1974 to American students in Switzerland. It provides insight into Fromm's therapy techniques as well as his thoughts and mindset...
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En estos tiempos, cuando en España y en buena parte del mundo los gobiernos tienden a endurecer las medidas de seguridad, esgrimiendo de nuevo la amenaza del otro, el disidente, el loco, el marginado, el inmigrante…, y su supuesta peligrosidad social, es de gran interés la lectura de este libro de Omar Bravo, que, a través del estudio de la situación de los presos con problemas de salud mental en las cárceles de Brasil y Colombia, desvela la...
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The future of psychology is process-based. This groundbreaking workbook offers concrete strategies for utilizing the core competencies of process-based therapy, and provides step-by-step guidance for formulating effective treatment plans.
For decades, evidence-based mental health treatments have been defined in terms of scientifically validated protocols focused on syndromes. Many therapies-including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-have historically...
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Written by three psychologists with more than 50 years of collective experience in the field of diabetes and youth, Teens with Diabetes provides evidence-based techniques for clinicians to treat the psychological needs of children with diabetes and help them transition into their teenage years. The authors have provided care to thousands of diabetic teens and their families from initial diagnosis to leaving home for college. Any professional working...
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