Childhood Abuse, Body Shame, and Addictive Plastic Surgery explores the psychopathology that plastic surgeons can encounter when seemingly excellent surgical candidates develop body dysmorphic disorder postoperatively. By examining how developmental abuse and neglect influence body image, personality, addictions, resilience, and adult health, this highly readable book uncovers the childhood sources of body dysmorphic disorder. Written from the unique perspective of a leading plast...

With time at a premium, today's clinicians must rapidly engage their patients while gathering an imposingly large amount of critical information. These clinicians appropriately worry that the "person" beneath the diagnoses will be lost in the shuffle of time constraints, data gathering, and the creation of the electronic health record. Psychiatric Interviewing: The Art of Understanding: A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and other Mental...

When The Body Bears the Burden made its debut in 2001, it changed the way people thought about trauma, PTSD, and the treatment of chronic stress disorders. Now in its third edition, this revered text offers a fully updated and revised analysis of the relationship between mind, body, and the processing of trauma. Here, clinicians will find detailed, thorough explorations of some of neurobiology’s fundamental tenets, the connections between mind, brain, and body, and the many and va...

We’ve all heard the phrase, “Laughter is the best medicine.”Readers Digest has been telling us this for years, but until recently there was no real evidence to back up the claim.This book discusses the exciting findings scientists have obtained over the past 25 years for how your sense of humor supports good physical and mental health.A separate chapter discusses humor and the brain.The first studies of humor and health demonstrated humor’s ability to strengthen the immune...

Study faster, learn better, and get top gradesModified to conform to the current curriculum, Schaum's Outline of Psychiatric Nursing complements these courses in scope and sequence to help you understand its basic concepts. The book offers extra practice on topics such as as biological basis for understanding psychotropic drugs, legal and ethical guidelines for safe practice, understanding anxiety and anxiety defenses, somatoform and dissociative disorders...

Psychiatric Clinical Skills is a practical guide to engaging and assessing people who have mental health problems. Written by a team of experienced clinicians, it focuses on “what to ask” and “how to ask” and covers a wide spectrum of clinical problems and settings. It includes a chapter written from the perspective of people who live with mental health problems.As well as covering the full range of mental health disorders, the guide includes informaition about:

A wide array of current topics is included in this series of essays on psychology, psychotherapies, eating disorders, obesity, personality, emotions, abnormal psychology, human development, ethics, and positive psychology. An insightful and intriguing read.

PreTest® is the closest you can get to seeing the test before you take it.Written by clerkship faculty and reviewed by students who know what it takes to pass, this book is perfect for clerkship exam review and the USMLE Step 2 CK. Psychiatry: PreTest® asks the right questions so you’ll know the right answers. Open it and start learning what’s on the test.Completely updated for the DSM-5500 USMLE-style Q&A cover core topics on the s...

Learn how to overcome the problem of not understanding your own emotions and those of others.How do you say, "I love" and not die trying?Surely, you know someone, or maybe this happens to you, that sometimes you have difficulty expressing your emotions, especially when it comes to declaring your love to someone by saying, "I love you."But, there’s also people who don’t actually know what they feel for other people and what’s most troubling, they’re unable to underst...

This book is about how to give outstanding feedback to patients, their family members, and other professionals. Effective feedback sessions have the potential to help patients understand their neurocognitive syndromes in the larger context of their real world environments and in a manner that positively alters lives. As our profession has matured, feedback sessions with patients and family members have become the norm rather than the exception. Nonetheless, many senior and even mid-career ...

A unique, state-of-the art, interdisciplinary resource on clinical hypnosis in psychology and medicineThis is the only up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary resource on clinical hypnosis research and applications in psychology and medicine. Authoredby hypnosis experts worldwide, it encompasses state-of-the-art scholarship and techniques for hypnotic treatments along with hypnosis transcripts and caseexamples for all major psychological disorders and medical c...

Fractured Minds introduces the reader to clinical neuropsychology through vivid case descriptions of adults who have suffered brain damage. At one level, this is a book about the courage, humor, and determination to triumph over illness and disability that many "ordinary people" demonstrate when coping with the extraordinary stress of a brain disorder. On another level, it is a well-referenced and up-to-date textbook that provides a holistic view of the practice of clinical neurop...