First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Research Advances in Alcohol and Drug Problems
by Yedy Israel, Frederick B. Glaser, Harold Kalant, Robert E. Popham, Wolfgang Schmidt, and Reginald George Smart
Over the last decade the world has experienced a growing interest in problems associated with the nonmedical use of drugs. This interest has corresponded to a real growth in the extent, diversity, and social impact of the use of alcohol and drugs in many societies. As a result, the amount of research and writing on the subject of drug problems has greatly increased, and it has become very difficult for one individual to keep up with all the relevant literature. There is thus an acute need in the...
Darwinian Psychiatry
by Professor of Psychiatry and Member of the Brain Research Institute Michael McGuire and Alfredo Troisi
Counseling the Adolescent
Sandplay Therapy in Vulnerable Communities (New Library of Psychoanalysis)
by Eva Pattis Zoja
In Beyond Prozac, Samuel Barondes explains the science underlying rational design of the next generation of antidepressive agents, and how we have learned what we know about the molecular basis of the neuropharmacological treatment of mood disorders. Barondes is a pioneer of molecular science, and he presents many case studies throughout the book to help readers understand the stakes and impact of mood disorders, and the scope of our current and potential abilities to intervene and mend clinica...
Neinstein's Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care
by Debra K Katzman, Catherine Gordon, Todd Callahan, Alain Joffe, Susan Rosenthal, Maria Trent, and Richard Chung
The #1 choice for more than 35 years for those involved in the care of adolescents and young adults, Neinstein’s Adolescent and Young Adult Health: A Practical Guide, 7th Edition is your go-to resource for practical, authoritative guidance. The fully updated seventh edition, edited by Drs. Debra K. Katzman, Catherine M. Gordon, S. Todd Callahan, Richard J. Chung, Alain Joffe, Susan L. Rosenthal, and Maria E. Trent, offers a comprehensive view of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and is i...
North Italian Church Music in the Age of Monteverdi (Oxford Monographs on Music)
by Jerome Roch
Venice, as well as other northern Italian cities, nurtured the growth of church music, and gave employment to many talented composers. Highlighting Venice's position as a publishing center, this book discusses the impact of the Counter-Reformation on sacred music, the institutions, cities, and towns where church music flourished, and the many liturgical considerations which affected composers' works. The age of Monteverdi spans the period from 1605-1643, when music was undergoing volatile change...
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
by Anne Harrington
Future Orientation (The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality)
by Rachel Seginer
By contemporary I mean a present with an anticipated future, for we must do our best to overcome clinical habits which make us assume that we have done our part if we have clari?ed the past. (Erikson, 1968, pp. 30-31). The scope of time ahead which in?uences present behavior, and is therefore to be regarded as part of the present life-space, increases during development. This change in time perspective is one of the most fundamental facts of development. Adolescence seems to be a period of parti...
Understanding and Preventing Violence (Pacific Institute Series on Forensic Psychology)
by Leighton C Whitaker
More violence has been perpetrated in the 20th century than in the two previous centuries combined. Understanding and Preventing Violence: Unmasking the Mentality of Human Destructiveness elucidates the mentality of destructive behavior with the hopes that in the future, the trend may be reversed through enlightenment. But in order to choose to be constructive, rather than destructive, there must first be an understanding.This book takes a hard look at an alarming trend. It provides a focused vi...
This volume aims to provide the reader with a contemporary account of his- torical, diagnostic, treatment-management (including the individual and the service systems perspectives), and training dimensions of mentally ill/mentally retarded individuals from interdisciplinary perspectives. Emphasis is placed on current and evolving aspects of this topic. The broad scope of our approach is consistent with the concepts and practices that currently typify this topical area of clinical and research ac...
Although surrounded by options for medical, psychological, and spiritual support, we lack a unified model of healing that can truly guide us in our journey to wellness. Thus we remain lost, suffering and confused. This book offers us hope. In it, Dr. Eve A. Wood presents an integrative approach to healing that combines traditional psychiatric practices and universal spiritual principles. By sharing her patients' poignant, captivating, and miraculous tales of recovery to demonstrate crucial lesso...
Featuring contributed chapters from experts within the discipline, Fundamentals of Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling provides readers with a vast range of knowledge and skills to help them work effectively with individuals with disabilities. The text familiarizes readers with chief concepts and prepares them to move into expanded explorations of these topics as they continue their education and training within the field. The textbook opens with an overview of the historical context of clinical...
Limbic Motor Circuits and Neuropsychiatry (Routledge Revivals)
by Peter W. Kalivas and Charles D. Barnes
Published in 1993. Limbic Motor Circuits and Neuropsychiatry explores the neural circuitry employed by mammals to interpret environmental stimuli that provoke adaptive behavioral responses. Internationally recognized biomedical scientists have contributed chapters that describe and evaluate the anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, and pathophysiology of how motivationally relevant environmental or interoceptive stimuli are translated into adaptive or maladaptive behavioral responses. The book also...
Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers. "This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life...Bateson has come to this position during a career that carried him not only into anthropology, for which he was first t...
Phobias (WPA Series in Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry, #5)
"Explores scientific and medical research on the emerging uses of psychedelics to enrich mind, morals, spirituality, and creativity"--
Social Change, Public Policy, and Community Collaborations (International Series in Outreach Scholarship, #3)
Lawton Chiles GovernorofFlorida, 1991-1998 Social Change, Public Policy and Community Collaborations: Training Human Development Professionalsfor the Twenty-First Century is more than the name of the Third National Applied Developmental Science Conference; it is more than the name of a book prepared from the proceedings of this conference. It describes one of the largest and most complex challenges facing state government, higher education and communities in the coming decade. The answer to this...