American Psychiatric Press Review of Psychiatry, Volume 14 -- by Michelle Riba, John Oldham (Authors) (Book)
"FROM THE PUBLISHER Section Contents: Substance abuse. Psychiatric disorders in women and women's health care. Psychiatric genetics. Cross-cultural psychiatry. Sexual disorders."--(www.appi.org)
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Medical Complications of Psychiatric Illness -- by Claire Pomeroy, James Mitchell, James Roerig, Scott Crow (Authors) (Book)
"Psychiatric patients have an increased rate of morbidity and mortality due to physical illnesses. Distressingly, psychiatrists fail to recognize these comorbid medical illnesses in nearly half of all...
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Role of Sexual Abuse in the Etiology of Borderline Personality Disorder -- by Mary Zanarini (Author) (Book)
"In sharp contrast to the prevailing belief during the past century that schizophrenia inevitably results in a progressive deteriorating clinical course, research since the early 1980s shows that...
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Plasma Homovanillic Acid in Schizophrenia -- by Farooq Amin, Arnold Friedhoff (Authors) (Book)
"The role of dopamine in schizophrenia has been a significant area of research. The measurement of the major dopamine metabolite, homovanillic acid (HVA), in various body fluids, especially in blood...
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Ego Mechanisms of Defense -- by George Vaillant (Author) (Book)
"Not since Anna Freud's 1937 book, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, has any one volume explored this topic as fully as Ego Mechanisms of Defense by George E. Vaillant. By summarizing the...
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Mania -- by Paul Goodnick (Author) (Book)
"Since the 1990 publication of Goodwin and Jamison's classic text on mania and bipolar and unipolar depression, Manic-Depressive Illness, there have been a number of significant advances in the...
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Public Mental Health -- by American Psychiatric Association (Author) (Book)
"As the costs of health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid skyrocketed, state and federal agencies attempted to curtail costs in public mental health care by introducing managed care?a move...
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Abortion: Facts and Feelings--A Handbook for Women and the People Who Care About Them -- by Nada Stotland (Author) (Book)
"Abortion: Facts and Feelings is for women who are considering whether to have an abortion, women who have had an abortion and want to do more thinking about it, and relatives, mates, lovers, friends,...
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Incest-Related Syndromes of Adult Psychopathology -- by Richard Kluft (Author) (Book)
"Incest is a social problem of major proportions affecting the lives of one in six American women. This collection of contributions from the most distinguished experts in the field examines the...
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Understanding and Treating Violent Psychiatric Patients -- by Martha Crowner (Author) (Book)
"Understanding and Treating Violent Psychiatric Patients is a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive guide to assessment, management, understanding, and treatment of violent patients. The first section...
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