Mental Illness

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PrefaceI Profess...IntroductionTowards Empowerment of WomenEmpowerment ProgrammesWomen in IndiaSocial Orientation and Sex Segregation of EmploymentWomen in Decision MakingTowards EmpowermentAnnexure: Women's Access to the Right to Vote and to Stand for Elections: World Chrology; Women in Parliament ... More

This comprehensive evidence-based book provides a broad and in-depth coverage of personality disorders across a variety of patient groups and treatment settings. Emmelkamp and Kamphuis bring together research examining psychological and biological variables that may play a role in the development of... More

Organised according to the DSM-IV classification of mental disorders, this is a groundbreaking and thoroughly comprehensive book. DSM-IV-TR Mental Disorders: Diagnosis, Etiology and Treatment is unique in that it also contains information about how to make the psychiatric diagnosis and the etiology ... More

"Psychology: Concepts and Applications," 2/e, offers a concept-based approach supported by a unique pedagogical framework. Nevid provides a broad view of psychology that includes history, research methods, major theories, and research findings and their contemporary applications in everyday life. Th... More

The Food-Mood Solution "Easy-to-follow . . . all backed up by recent scientific research." -- Health & Fitness magazine "Jack Challem makes the connection between food and mood clearly, simply, and practically. He shows us how we can use food, supplements, and herbs to help relieve our distressing... More

Michel Foucault's Madness And Civilization has been,without a shadow of a doubt, the most original, influential, and controversialtext in this field during the last forty years. It remains as challenging now ason first publication. Its insights have still not been fully appreciated andabsorbed. The ... More

Challenging views of madness and reason, "History of Madness," first published in France in 1961, is a classic of 20th-century thought--an inspiring and classic work that challenges us to understand madness, reason, and power--and the forces that shape them.When it was first published in France in 1... More

Do people with schizophrenia ever get better? With the vast majority of those with the disorder dependent on their families for care, close relatives often grapple with that question. "The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia" inspires hope. Authors Kim T. Mueser, PhD, and Susan Gingerich, MSW, wa... More

This manual presents a powerful approach for helping people manage bipolar illness and protect against the recurrence of manic or depressive episodes. Each phase of the treatment is vividly detailed.... More

In this unique, intriguing book, Scott O. Lilienfeld presents nineteen issues that have been persistently controversial in abnormal psychology. Each issue is represented by two readings that adopt conflicting, and in some cases diametrically opposite, perspectives. Seeing Both Sides helps students i... More

Suicide, currently the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, represents an enormous challenge to health care professionals. Bridging the gap between clinical work and scientific research, this book provides help for those who are at risk for suicide by equipping professionals with tool... More

How the insane asylum became a laboratory of democracy is revealed in this provocative look at the treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century France. Political thinkers reasoned that if government was to rest in the hands of individuals, then measures should be taken to understand the deepe... More