What is the prevalence of insomnia in a particular age group, in men and women, or in Caucasians and African Americans? What is the average total sleep time among normal sleepers among these groups? How does the sleep of Caucasians and African Americans differ? These are just some of the questions addressed in The Epidemiology of Sleep.This new book presents the most detailed and comprehensive archive of normal and abnormal sleep patterns. Based on a landmark study support...

The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis is the long overdue successor to Fromm and Nash's Contemporary Hypnosis Research (Guilford Press), which has been regarded as the field's authoritative scholarly reference for over 35 years. This new book is a comprehensive summary of where field has been, where it stands today, and its future directions. The volume's lucid and engaging chapters on the scientific background to the field, fully live up to this uncompromising scholarly legacy. In addition, the...

A gentle, spiritual and supportive approach to bolster our recovery, The Twelve Steps and Dual Disorders provides an adaptation and discussion of each of the Twelve Steps of Dual Recovery Anonymous.With compassion and encouragement, this book helps us to begin and strengthen our recovery from our addictions and emotional or psychiatric illnesses. A gentle, spiritual and supportive approach to bolster our recovery, The Twelve Steps and Dual Disorders

Are you fascinated by hypnosis? Do you get satisfaction from helping people? If the answer to both of these is a yes, then our book is what you will need to learn how to do hypnotize people and perform self-hypnosis on yourself.Hypnotherapy is a way to help people overcome their own shortcomings, doubts, and fears to be better people. With hypnosis you can help people get over fears and phobias, allowing them to lead a less anxious and fearful life.You will have the tools n...

In February 1983 civil servant Dennis Nilsen was arrested after body parts were found to be blocking drains at the house where he lived. As the squad car drove him away, he confessed he had strangled 15 young men. It wasn't just the crimes that stunned; it was also the way he spoke. Nilsen said he had loved the young men he killed. His words seemed bizarre. When newspapers carried stories of how the 37-year-old lured men back to his flat and why, the nation was shocked by his sheer evil. Y...

The Hypnotic Wisdom of Weight Loss is a book that examines the positive motivations to losing weight and what you can do to bring the results you have always desired..  There is no doubt that the balance of healthy nutrition, exercise and focused mindset is the way to bring exceptional results.  With this book in hand you'll understand why will power will always fail, why some people exercise with very little ill effect and look great, how the mind works and the best way to chan...

Principi teoretici, tecniche dettagliate, illustrazioni aneddotiche ed esercizi pratici che aiuteranno gli psicoterapeuti ad avvicinarsi alla Fototerapia.

Past Lives Therapy was the first book to address the use of reincarnation as a source for therapy. It served as the foundation for on-going teaching programs in the United States. It also introduced the Netherton Method to clinicians in eight foreign countries where it has been translated. The book has remained a valuable source of information for those engaged in research and clinical practice since its publication. Although Dr. Morris Netherton is retired from full-time practice, his met...

As a little boys journey begins, Scott Jordan experiences continuous childhood traumas and is grief stricken by his mothers ultimate abandonment, jumping overboard to her watery death from a cruise ship. He grows up sad, confused and angry. Subsequently Scott has another personal hell to wage war with; Manic depressive illness. His life is a succession of delusional, psychotic, manic episodes and crippling suicidal depressions. He is caught in an intricate web of misfiring brain chemistry....

Cognitive therapy, with its clear-cut measurable techniques, has been a welcome innovation in recent years. However, the very specificity that lends itself so well to research and training has minimized the role of the therapeutic relationship, making it difficult for therapists to respond flexibly to different clinical situations. What is needed is an approach that focuses on the underlying mechanisms of therapeutic change, not just on interventions.In this practical and original ...

The long-awaited final installment of the Biocognitive Model SeriesHumanizing Psychiatrists is the third of a series directed at developing the Biocognitive Model of Psychiatry as the replacement for the three nineteenth century models of mental disorder, psychoanalysis, behaviorism and biological psychiatry. In this volume, the author continues to explore the logical status of theories used in psychiatry. He shows that Dennett's functionalism and Searle's ...

We have made huge progress in understanding the biology of mental illnesses, but comparatively little in interpreting them at the psychological level. The eminent philosopher Jonathan Glover believes that there is real hope of progress in the human interpretation of disordered minds.The challenge is that the inner worlds of people with psychiatric disorders can seem strange, like alien landscapes, and this strangeness can deter attempts at understanding. Do people with disorders sh...