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Cultural Issues in the Treatment of Anxiety

Posted By Kelly On Wednesday, December 2nd 2009   under:  Book review   Tags: , , , , , , , ,    
Friedman S, editor New York, London: The Guilford Press; 1997. 261 pp. with index ISBN 1-57230-237-2 Anxiety is a profound human experience. Anxiety disorders are universal in human societies, although the diagnostic patterns vary over time and from one place to another. This volume describes some culturally bound anxiety syndromes, but dwells on the diagnostic categories of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third (DSM-III), third ... Read More

Measuring Stress

Posted By Kelly On Tuesday, December 1st 2009   under:  Book review   Tags:    
Cohen S, Kessler RC, Underwood Gordon L, editors New York: Oxford University Press; 1997. 236 pp. with index ISBN 0-19-512120-1 (paper) "Stress" has become such an overused word that it is now almost a cliché. The Oxford English Dictionary has 10 different meanings for it. Because of these terminological difficulties, some consider that it should be discarded from the medical lexicon altogether. Nevertheless, "stress" has developed ... Read More

Depression And The Social Environment

Posted By Kelly On Sunday, November 29th 2009   under:  Book review   Tags:    
Depression And The Social Environment: Research And Intervention With Neglected Populations Editors: Philippe CappeUez; Robert J. Flyrm McGill Queen's University Press, 3430 McTavish St, Montreal, QCH3A 1X9, 1993, 428 ppl The title of this book clearly expresses the concepts within. It is well written and includes fairly complete literature reviews, along with some of the authors' personal work on research related to depression in specific populations. Most of the populations studied are often ... Read More

Risk Management with Suicidal Patients

Posted By Kelly On Saturday, November 28th 2009   under:  Book review   Tags: , , ,    
Risk Management with Suicidal Patients Bongar B, Berman AL, Mavis RW, Silverman MM, Harris EA, Pakman WL, editors New York: The Guilford Press; 1998.197 pp with index ISBN 1-57230-302-6 (cloth) This book was written in response to the fact that most psychiatrists lose a patient to suicide sometime during their professional life. Suicide cases are a leading reason for malpractice action against mental health professionals. Dr. Bongar begins ... Read More

Drug Therapy: Decision Making Guide

Posted By Kelly On Saturday, November 21st 2009   under:  Book review   Tags: , , ,    
Edited by James McCormack, Glen Brown, Marc Levine, Robert Rangno and John Ruedy. 550 pp. W.B. Saunders Company/Harcourt Brace & Company, Philadelphia; W.B. Saunders Canada, Toronto. 1996 ISBN 0-7216-4215-2 This textbook combines a disease-oriented and a drug-specific approach to therapeutics. It is intended to guide prescribers in initiating or altering drug therapy, and it incorporates issues concerning risk, benefit, quality of life and cost-effectiveness. Although the book appears to be intended for primary ... Read More

Mental Health Law and Practice

Posted By Kelly On Friday, November 20th 2009   under:  Book review   Tags: ,    
Julio Arboleda-Florez and Margaret Copithorne. Illust Carswell, Scarborough, Ont. 1995 ISBN 9547062-855 This looseleaf book, subtitled "a Guide to the Alberta Mental Health Act and Related Canadian Legislation," is of considerably wider national interest than its subtitle suggests. Updates, to be published twice yearly at an estimated annual cost of $75, will reflect Canada-wide developments in law in this area. Dr. Julio Arboleda-Florez is head of the Forensic Division, Faculty of Medicine, University ... Read More

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook

Posted By Kelly On Thursday, November 19th 2009   under:  Book review   Tags: , ,    
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, 2nd ed. Edmund J. Bourne. 428 pp. New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 1995 ISBN 1-57224-003-2, paperback; ISBN 1-57224-004-0, hardcover Strengths: Very clearly written; reviews a wealth of techniques to decrease or overcome anxiety and phobias; interesting step-by-step approach Audience: Public (including therapists) The purpose of this book is to help lay readers to overcome panic, anxiety and phobias through a step-by-step method. The book uses an eclectic approach, summarizing many previously published works. ... Read More

Physiotherapy in Mental Health

Posted By Kelly On Wednesday, November 18th 2009   under:  Book review   Tags: , ,    
Physiotherapy in Mental Health: a Practical Approach Edited by Tina Everett, Maureen Dennis and Eirian Rick-etts. 424 pp Must. Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston. 1995 ISBN 0-7506-1700-4 Overall rating: Good to excellent Strengths: Comprehensive, holistic approach to integration of body and mind, excellent references and useful illustrations Audience: Practitioners and educators in physiotherapy and mental health, some people with an interest in mind and body This lengthy book has 28 contributors — all British — from professions such as physiotherapy, ... Read More

Psychotherapy for schizophrenia

Posted By Kelly On Tuesday, November 17th 2009   under:  Book review   Tags: , ,    
The Dinosaur Man: Tales of Madness and Enchantment from the Back Ward Susan Baur. 203 pp Edward Burlingame Books, Harper Collins Publishers, New York. 1991 ISBN 0-06-016538-3 Susan Baur is a psychologist who spent several years in a mental hospital working on her doctoral dissertation. She hypothesized that schizophrenic patients have more difficulty than nonschizophrenic controls in distinguishing memories of fantasies from memories of real events. To prove this she gave both types of subjects ... Read More

Suicide: Right or Wrong?

Posted By Kelly On Monday, November 16th 2009   under:  Book review   Tags: , ,    
Edited by John Donnelly Contemporary Issues in Philosophy; series editors, Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum. 212 pp Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY. 1990 ISBN 0-87975-595-4 This book is a collection of essays on suicide. There are three sections, dealing with background history, definitions, and the rationality and morality of suicide. John Donnelly, the editor, has written a 16-page introduction. It is very short and can act only as a guide toward what to ... Read More
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