Psychology & Psychiatry : Mental Health

Im drztlich-medizinischen Berufsfeld wird hdufig unterschdtzt, wie eng kvrperliche Krankheiten mit psychischen Vorgdngen verkn]pft sind. Das Fachgebiet der medizinischen Psychologie setzt an den zahlreichen Ber]hrungspunkten zwischen Medizin und Psychologie an: den Auswirkungen kvrperlicher Erkrankungen oder medizinischer Eingriffe auf das psychische Erleben und Befinden, den Einfluss psychischer Zustdnde auf Entstehung und Verlauf von Erkrankungen oder die zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen zwischen Drzten, Patienten und Angehvrigen. In diesem Buch beleuchten f]hrende Vertreter des Faches solche medizinpsychologischen Fragen und Erkenntnisse erstmals getrennt f]r spezifische, medizinische Anwendungsgebiete: Was hat die Psychologie u.a. zur Onkologie, Kardiologie, Zahnmedizin, Augenheilkunde oder auch zu Themen wie Sterben, Tod und Trauern" und Telemedizin" zu sagen? Wie tragen z.B. psychische Faktoren zur Entstehung einer Herzinsuffizienz oder der Migrdne bei? more...

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The diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome is becoming more widespread, amongst both children and adults. This synthesis of current knowledge about the syndrome is written to help teachers and families provide the support required by those with Asperger's. more...

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Asylum to Action offers an alternative history of a libertarian therapeutic community at Paddington Day Hospital in West London in the 1970s. Helen Spandler recaptures the radical aspirations, as well as the conflicts, of the early therapeutic community movement, radical psychiatry and the patients' movement. The author's account of the formation of the Mental Patients' Union, the first politicised psychiatric survivors group in the UK, raises questions about the connections between the service user movement, therapeutic communities, critiques of psychiatry and psychoanalytic models of intervention. In particular, Spandler challenges Claire Baron's dominant account of the subject in her influential book Asylum to Anarchy . She points out that some of the key difficulties that beset Paddington Day Hospital persist in modern therapeutic community practice and, indeed, in mental health services in general. Arguing that these dilemmas require sustained attention, Asylum to Action also informs a wider analysis of the significance of social movements, social action and critical social theory. This book will be of interest to practitioners, researchers and service users in the mental health sector and to anyone with an interest in therapeutic communities. more...

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Explaining bipolar in a common sense, every day language, this book shares real stories of people with bipolar and addresses the disorder from a personal, medical, drug and alcohol abuse, and forensic perspectives. more...

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