The Perspectives of Psychiatry

The Perspectives of Psychiatry

Author: Paul R. McHugh

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1998-11-29

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1421404141

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Substantially revised to include a wealth of new material, the second edition of this highly acclaimed work provides a concise, coherent introduction that brings structure to an increasingly fragmented and amorphous discipline. Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney offer an approach that emphasizes psychiatry's unifying concepts while accommodating its diversity. Recognizing that there may never be a single, all-encompassing theory, the book distills psychiatric practice into four explanatory methods: diseases, dimensions of personality, goal-directed behaviors, and life stories. These perspectives, argue the authors, underlie the principles and practice of all psychiatry. With an understanding of these fundamental methods, readers will be equipped to organize and evaluate psychiatric information and to develop a confident approach to practice and research.


Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation

Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation

Author: Margaret S. Chisolm

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2012-09-07

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1421407027

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The Perspectives approach to psychiatry focuses on four aspects of psychiatric practice and research: disease, dimensional, behavior, and lifestory. In Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation, Drs. Margaret S. Chisolm and Constantine G. Lyketsos underscore the benefits of this approach, showing how it improves clinicians' abilities to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients. Drs. Chisolm and Lyketsos use increasingly complex case histories to help the mental health provider evaluate patients demonstrating symptoms of bipolar disorder, psychosis, suicidal ideation, depression, eating disorders, and cutting, among other conditions. The book also includes an exercise that simulates the Perspectives approach side by side with traditional methods, revealing the advantages of a method that engages not one but four points of view. Featuring a foreword by Drs. Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney, the originators of the Perspectives approach, this innovative book will be used in psychiatric training programs as well as by practicing mental health clinicians. -- Arnold E. Andersen, M.D., The University of Iowa College of Medicine


Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis

Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis

Author: John Z. Sadler

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780198526377

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In this work, John Z. Sadler examines the nature and significance for practice of the value-content of psychiatric diagnostic classification.


Women in Psychiatry

Women in Psychiatry

Author: Donna M. Norris

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

Published: 2012-03-20

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1585629642

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In Women in Psychiatry, 21 accomplished women psychiatrists in private practice, teaching institutions, hospitals, public health treatment programs, and leadership positions reveal both the challenges and rewards of being in a wide array of professional positions. The stories are heartfelt and personal as well as professional accounts of obstacles overcome and milestones achieved. In a field once completely dominated by men, nearly one-third of physicians who identified themselves as practicing psychiatry in the U.S. were women, and the diversity of their approaches to the practice of psychiatry is encouragingly illustrated in this book. Women in Psychiatry clearly demonstrates where an interest in science or medicine can lead when combined with determination, guidance, experience, mentoring, perseverance, and organizational support. The featured women represent diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, positions, career pathways, and accomplishments. All the authors share lessons learned and provide recommendations on what they found helpful in achieving their goals of personal and professional fulfillment. These chapters present many common themes among women professionals both within and outside of psychiatry, including handling pregnancy and motherhood while building a career, the potential strain between women and men in the field, and some of the income and leadership role inequities that still exist. Features and benefits of Women in Psychiatry include: Insights into career paths through descriptions of pivotal events and decisions that shaped their careers as scientists. Perspectives and advice on how to balance personal and professional responsibilities, both in training and in practice. Illustrations of the role played by cultural and linguistic background, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, subspecialty, place of employment, and work setting. The importance of mentorship throughout the process, first as a recipient and ultimately as a mentor to other women entering the field. Strategies these authors used to accomplish goals and the various styles of leadership that helped them reach those goals. The historical context for understanding that until recent decades, despite irrefutable evidence that women in the biomedical professions are capable, there were few in most fields with the exception of nursing, dental hygiene, and elementary science teaching. Women in Psychiatry is the ideal book for women who are considering a career in psychiatry or other areas of medicine. It is also a book for partners and spouses of women in medicine and psychiatry. It is an inspirational and educational document that women and men, whether in medicine or other, nonrelated careers, can value and appreciate through the recounting of personal and professional experiences that made a difference.


Postpsychiatry

Postpsychiatry

Author: Patrick J. Bracken

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-12-22

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780198526094

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For most of us the words madness and psychosis conjure up fear and images of violence. Using short stories, the authors consider complex philosphical issues from a fresh perspective. The current debates about mental health policy and practice are placed into their historical and cultural contexts.


Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry

Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry

Author: Timothy Thornton

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-09-06

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 019922871X

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This book is a concise introduction to the growing field of philosophy of psychiatry. Divided into the three main aspects of psychiatric clinical judgement, values, meanings and facts, it examines the key debates about mental health care, and the philosophical ideas and tools needed to assess those debates.


Maladapting Minds

Maladapting Minds

Author: Pieter R. Adriaens

Publisher: International Perspectives in

Published: 2011-03-10

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0199558663

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This text explores the relationship between evolutionary theory and philosophy of psychiatry. In particular, it discusses a number of reasons why philosophers of psychiatry should take an interest in evolutionary explanations of mental disorders, and more generally, in evolutionary thinking.


The Metaphor of Mental Illness

The Metaphor of Mental Illness

Author: Neil Pickering

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780198530886

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Despite the currency of the notion of mental illness, there are those who take the radical line that it is a fabrication. This work takes the sceptical line seriously and puts forward a new view on mental illness and proposes a resolution of issues and disputes in the field.


Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience

Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience

Author: Matthew Broome

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2009-05-14

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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'Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience' is a philosophical analysis of the study of psychpathology, considering how cognitive neuroscience has been applied in psychiatry. The text examines many neuroscientific methods, such as neuroimaging, and a variety of psychiatric disorders, including depression, and schizophrenia.


Critical Perspectives on Mental Health

Critical Perspectives on Mental Health

Author: Vicki Coppock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1135358427

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Over the last forty years, there have been numerous attempts to critique the theory and practice of mental health care. Taking its lead from anti-psychiatry, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies and to establish what implications the critiques of these perspectives have for practice. This text will be essential reading for students and those working in the social work and mental health care professions.