Mental illness

Clinical decision making in mental health practice

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Overview and challenges of clinical decision making in mental health practice / Jeffrey J. Magnavita -- Clinical expertise and decision making : an overview of bias in clinical practice / Jeffrey J. Magnavita & Scott O. Lilienfeld -- A dual process perspective on the value of th…

Creativity and mental illness

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Re-examines the common view that a high level of individual creativity often correlates with a heightened risk of mental illness.

Psychological testing that matters: creating a road map for effective treatment

by Kleiger, Mary Jo Peebles, Bram, Anthony D.

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"In clinical settings, the ultimate value of a psychological test report is a function of its ability to guide treatment planning in meaningful ways. Psychological test data are a rich mine of potential treatment-relevant inferences. For example, test data can inform psychologis…

A metaphysics of psychopathology

by Zachar, Peter

fromPhilosophical Psychopathology

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In this study Peter Zachar considers such terms as 'real' and 'reality' - invoked in psychiatry but often obscure and remote from their instances - as abstract philosophical concepts. He then examines the implications of his approach for psychiatric classification and psychopath…

What is thought? What are dreams? Do thoughts and dreams lead us to do the things we do, or are there unknown factors that shape our behavior? If a person's actions are aberrant or disturbing, does the cause lie in their mental state, their cultural environment, the brain? What …

Masters of the mind: exploring the story of mental illness from ancien…

by Grossman, Seth, Millon, Theodore, Meagher, Sarah E.

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The compellingstory of the quest to understand the human mind?and its diseasesThis engaging presentation of our evolving understanding of the human mind and the meaning of mental illness asks the questions that have fascinated philosophers, researchers, clinicians, and ordinary …

Masters of the mind: exploring the story of mental illness from ancien…

by Grossman, Seth, Millon, Theodore, Meagher, Sarah E.

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"A piece of intellectual, scientific, and medical history, Theodore Millon's Masters of the Mind takes you on a tour of humankind's attempts to understand itself. Millon, a major figure among today's psychological experts, considers the full scope of mental science, from its pre…

Representing autism: culture, narrative, fascination

by Murray, Stuart

fromRepresentations (Liverpool, England)

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From concerns of an 'autism epidemic' to the MMR vaccine crisis, autism is a source of peculiar fascination in the contemporary media. Discussion of the condition has been largely framed within medicine, psychiatry and education but there has been no exploration of its power wit…

Fundamentals of psychiatry

by Mohr, Wanda K., Tasman, Allan

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Allan Tasman, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, has teamed up with Wanda Mohr, Professor, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, to produce a user-friendly textbook for Ps…