Author: Paul Linde
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: psychiatrist, line, danger
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2010-01-07
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0520249844
ISBN-13: 9780520249844

The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul R. Linde takes readers behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering and repair shattered lives. As he and his colleagues encounter patients who are hallucinating, drunk, catatonic, ag

Author: Thomas G. Gutheil
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: second, witness, expert, psychiatrist
Number of Pages: 165
Published: 2009-01-05
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 1585623423
ISBN-13: 9781585623426

The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness, Second Edition, by Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D., is a highly readable and practical update of his successful first edition. The focus of the new volume is to guide readers to become, improve, and successfully market a career as a psychiatric expert witness. A professor of psychiatry at the Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Gutheil draws on his decades of experience in the courtroom and countless beginner s mistakes to help readers avoid pitfalls. While of great value to newcomers to the field, the book offers insights and guidance to e

Author: Vikram Patel
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
Keywords: books, words, manual, care, mental, health, psychiatrist
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1901242757
ISBN-13: 9781901242751

Even though mental illnesses are common and cause great suffering in every part of the world, many health workers have a limited understanding about mental health and are less comfortable dealing with mental illness. This book is a practical manual for mental health care for the community health worker, the primary care nurse, the social worker and the primary care doctor, particularly in developing countries. After giving the reader a basic understanding of mental illness, the book goes on to describe more than 30 clinical problems associated with mental illness and uses a problem-solving app

Author: Peter Breggin
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: mood, altering, medications, dangers, exposes, madness, psychiatrist, medication
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-07-08
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0312363389
ISBN-13: 9780312363383

Medications for everything from depression and anxiety to ADHD and insomnia are being prescribed in alarming numbers across the country, but the “cure” is often worse than the original problem. Medication Madness is a fascinating, frightening, and dramatic look at the role that psychiatric medications have played in fifty cases of suicide, murder, and other violent, criminal, and bizarre behaviors.  As a psychiatrist who believes in holding people responsible for their conduct, the weight of scientific evidence and years of clinical experience eventually convinced Dr. Breggin that psychia

Author: M. Scott Peck
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: possession, exorcism, redemption, accounts, personal, devil, psychiatrist, glimpses
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-01-04
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0743254678
ISBN-13: 9780743254670

The best-selling author of The Road Less Traveled reveals his more than twenty-five-year work as a psychiatrist and exorcist, discussing his early skepticism about the integration of psychiatry and religion, two of his most significant cases, and his beliefs about free will and the forces of evil.

Author: Olga Kharitidi
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: discovered, russian, psychiatrist, wisdom, siberian, circle, ancient, secrets, entering
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-09-10
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0062514172
ISBN-13: 9780062514172

Olga Kharitidi’s debut book is a remarkable account of her spiritual adventure in snowbound Siberia. Joining an ailing friend on a spontaneous trip to the Atai Mountains, Dr. Kharitidi is taken into apprenticeship by a native Shaman who guides her through bizarre, magical, and often terrifying experiences that open her eyes to a wellspring of deeper learning. On the road to Belovedia, a fabled civilization of highly evolved beings, she encounters revolutionary mystical teachings while discovering ancient secrets of magic and healing. At once a modern odyssey and a timeless dreamscape, En

Author: Malcolm Noell McLeod
Publisher: Basic Health Publications
Keywords: depression, role, treatment, chromium, discovered, psychiatrist, lifting
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-06-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1591202450
ISBN-13: 9781591202455

More than a decade ago, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Malcolm McLeod discovered a new cause of, and treatment for, the type of depression associated with carbohydrate cravings, weight gain, unexplained exhaustion, and sensitivity to rejection. This type of disorder, known as atypical depression, begins early in life and can last a lifetime unless treated. As many as one-half of depressed people--an estimated 30 million people in the United States alone--have this type of depression for which, up to now, there has been no effective treatment that is free of unwanted side effects.Dr. McLeod_s d