Defining the nature of schizophrenia continues to be one of the central challenges left to psychiatry and medical science. The Dialectics of Schizophrenia summarizes the various approaches and points up their weaknesses and strengths.
This text gives a balanced view of abnormal psychology, combining current perspectives with cutting-edge research. It deals with the most tenable therapies and looks at the research on every disorder. Issues of diversity are consistently discussed in every chapter.
Evaluates the evidence for the full range of widely used child and adolescent mental health treatments, providing vital knowledge to inform clinical decision making.
A thorough examination of how peoples' responses to deviant conditions are dependent on their individual backgrounds.
Although anxiety disorders may begin at any age, they often start in childhood. This book challenges some of the field's most respected researchers to take a fresh look at the major factors that contribute to the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders in childhood and throughout life.
This text argues that the American worship of law and legality can become so pathological it resembles a type of legal madness, or Jurismania . It looks at law in American society, and concludes that much of what is called the rule of law resembles a form of obsessive-compulsive behaviour.