Author: Henry, Jones
Publisher: Mental Health Education
Keywords: illness, mental, etiology, religion
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $51.08
ISBN-10: 0615138446
ISBN-13: 9780615138442

This book explains how the religious indoctrination of children causes mental illness. Brain damage caused by religious belief is explained.

Author: Ross Andersen
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: prevention, treatment, assessment, etiology, obesity
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2003-05-23
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0736003282
ISBN-13: 9780736003285

Obesity: Etiology, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention is a comprehensive professional reference of weight management research and techniques. Featuring chapters from some of the world’s top specialists in the field of weight control, it provides the most current and accurate information available today for treating obesity. The textbook combines a literature review with practical applications, incorporating expert analysis and synthesis of obesity treatment and prevention. The book is an important resource that will prepare health professionals and clinicians to help patients of all ag

Author: Joel Paris
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: treatment, etiology, disorder, personality, borderline
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1993-01
List price: $97.00
ISBN-10: 088048408X
ISBN-13: 9780880484084

At this time, borderline personality disorder is the most researched Axis II disorder and is beginning to rival the functional psychoses for space devoted to the topic in prominent journals. This book differs from other books on borderline personality disorder in its commitment to empirical data as the basis for progress and understanding when treating the borderline patient. Written by experts in this ever-changing field, it includes the most in-depth and up-to-date research and clinical findings on the etiology and treatment of borderline personality disorder.

Author: Peter Manu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: diagnosis, treatment, etiology, syndromes, somatic, functional
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-12-15
List price: $101.99
ISBN-10: 0521634911
ISBN-13: 9780521634915

Functional somatic syndromes are defined as physical syndromes without an organic disease explanation, demonstrable structural changes, or established biochemical abnormalities. This book reviews the state of scientific and clinical understanding of the nine most common functional somatic syndromes. For each syndrome, expert contributors provide a brief historical perspective, a current definition, a case presentation, confirmatory and contradictory research findings, a discussion of the leading pathogenetic hypotheses, and guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. Chapters offer advice for the

Author: Martin Green
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: major, genre, etiology, tale, types, adventure, seven
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1991-09-13
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0271027290
ISBN-13: 9780271027296

From Alexandre Dumas to Raymond Chandler, Martin Green examines adventure stories and their role in spreading the ideology of the modern nation-state.Seven Types of Adventure Tale studies widely read and influential adventure tales of the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries in the respectable literary forms. Some of the authors considered are Dumas, Scott, Defoe, Cooper, Verne, Buchan, Kipling, Twain, and Chandler. These stories, tough adapted and copied innumerable times and read in their native languages and in translation throughout the Western world. have been largely neglected by l

Authors:Fiona Lyall, Michael Belfort,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: practice, clinical, etiology, eclampsia, pre
Number of Pages: 566
Published: 2007-06-18
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 052183189X
ISBN-13: 9780521831895

Pre-eclampsia is one of the leading causes of death and disability in mothers and babies. Over four million women worldwide will develop the disorder every year. This book, written by an international team of experts, focuses on both the scientific basis of pre-eclampsia and its management. The basic science section contains reviews of the most exciting research developments in pre-eclampsia. The clinical chapters provide a comprehensive review of the pertinent literature, highlighting data and ideas or developments in management. There is a section in each chapter (where relevant) that deals

Authors:Karl Leonhard, Helmut Beckmann,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: etiology, differentiated, psychoses, endogenous, classification
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 1999-09-10
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3211832599
ISBN-13: 9783211832592

Karl Leonhard’s Classification of Endogenous Psychoses is based on sophisticated clinical descriptions and characteristical symptom patters occurring during the long-term course of psychiatric diseases. A diagnosis can be made only if all the clinical features fit, i.e. a special diagnosis may not be made if one characteristic symptom is lacking. This is the main and important difference between Leonhard’s classification and the operational diagnostic systems that require the presence of some but not all specific symptoms of a symptom cluster. Leonhard took over the essenti