There is a need to refine our current psychiatric nosology to produce diagnostic criteria and disorder categories that keep pace with advances in neuroscience while at the same time enhance clinical utility. Furthermore, dimensional aspects of psychiatric disorders require greater recognition so as to improve our understanding of boundaries between disorders and underscore the heterogeneous nature of psychopathology. The Conceptual Evolution of DSM-5 provides a framework for the evolution ...

Die Bewohner von Gravesend, einem italienischen Arbeiterviertel in Brooklyn, verbindet ein Fluch, der unter Amerikanern weit verbreitet ist: die unerfüllte Hoffnung, ihr Leben für ein besseres Leben einzutauschen. 1986. Risa Franzone lebt mit ihrem gewalttätigen Ehemann Saverio und ihrem acht Monate alten Baby Fabrizio in einer Erdgeschosswohnung in der Saint of the Narrows Street. Als ihr betrunkener Ehemann eine Waffe auf den Tisch legt und ihre Schwester Giulia bedroht, schlägt Risa ihn...

Learning how to pilot a ship through Wrangell Narrows and Peril Strait is not an easy matter for a vessel operator new to the area, or even for those with experience. It takes time, patience, and a certain appetite for risk. The older generation of captains knew the channels in great detail, but they did not write anything down to leave for the next generation coming up through the ranks. Recognizing the wealth of the knowledge these navigators possessed in their memories, William Hopkins ...

Acclaimed author William Boyle, who has come to be known as the 'crime poet of Brooklyn', follows the lives of two sisters who become embroiled in an accidental murder and a well-planned cover-up.'William Boyle's best novel yet, a vibrant, operatic tale of two resilient, big-hearted sisters and the fateful night that sets their life on a path they never intended. Not since Richard Price has a writer brought New York to such vivid, spectacular life' Megan Ab...

While it is quite clear that black and Latino students in general, and poor black and poor Latino students in particular do not do as well as white students in school, the road to real solutions to this very important and vexing problem is far from clear. Some champion vouchers and charter schools as the ideal solution, despite strong data suggesting that neither is particularly effective. Others point to smaller classes. Increasingly scholars and politicians support more accountability on...

America's racial gap is widening.Coupled with an increase in political polarization, this shifts the burden of bringing together a divided nation onto nonprofits, communities, and even individual Americans. But what can we, individually, do when so many larger organizations still struggle to meet their goals?So much.Let Them Eat Spaghetti is a heartfelt and insightful exploration of overcoming the racial divide in the United States, through the lens of someone with ...

Life as we know if is over. The day of reckoning has arrived. In the heart of historic Bucks County the fate of the world rests in the hands of a shy, teenage boy. In the quaint borough of Newtown the dead have been whispering. Sixteen year old Kadin Godwin hears their voices and bears a terrible secret. Kadin knows of the dark places where the walls between our world and the world of nightmares are narrow. And now the narrows are growing thinner. Imagine a world where every fiction or nig...

Gravesend, Brooklyn, 1986: Risa Franzone lives in a ground-floor apartment on Saint of the Narrows Street with her bad-seed husband, Saverio, and their eight-month-old baby, Fabrizio. Risa is a loving mother, a faithful wife, a saintly neighbour - but lately, her husband’s slow dive into criminality and abuse has threatened her peace, raising concerns about her and her baby’s safety.On the night her younger sister, Giulia, moves in with Risa to recover from a bad break-up, a fatefu...

Lisa Hatchett, a very devoted wife and successful psychotherapist, feels that she is the most blessed woman ever. After living in and out of foster homes most of her adolescent life after the sudden death of her parents, she'd always dreamed of having a very successful career, but not just any career. While living with the devastation of losing her parents, she felt that she needed a rewarding career where she could help others overcome their emotional and mental challenges. Hence, the rea...

With the second renaissance and re-emergence of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, the general public and therapists alike are confronting new areas of exploration with few systematic frameworks available. With questions surrounding legal access to care, ongoing criminalization, and medical restrictions to care restricting to the therapies available, the immediate future of psychedelic-assisted therapy remains shrouded uncertainty, even in the face of expanding interest. Beyond the Narrow...

Would you risk being arrested by Iran’s secret police or subject yourself to a ‘torture massage’ in North Korea just so you could say you’d survived to tell the tale? And would you even want to share a crude-oil bath with a retired croc hunter in Azerbaijan? Or pull a golden ring from a turd?Graham and his wife Lisa have done all of these things. In journeys spanning the globe, they’ve also visited Kashmir when it was the most dangerous place on earth, encountered ...

Sometimes described as "the nemesis of the primary care physician," somatoform disorders are frustrating, expensive to treat, and under-investigated. Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders provides a fascinating and practical review of the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of this ill-defined category of disease. Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders summarizes the proceedings of a unique international conference that convened experts from across disciplines to review perspecti...