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Dementia
Wiley 2003; US$ 92.00Dementia is most frequently associated with aging and is, at present, under-diagnosed and under-represented all over the world. Discrepancies in the diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions implemented in the various clinical contexts are significant and consequently, the need for a review of the currently available research evidence and... more...
Schizophrenia
Wiley 2003; US$ 92.00This series acknowledges the substantial gap that still exists in psychiatry between research evidence and clinical practice: clinicians are sometimes incompletely aware of research findings, or regard them as biased, not convincing or not relevant to their practice. By using systematic reviews with accompanying commentaries this volume is able to... more...
Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illness
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 68.00This book details the results of the Open Doors Programme, begun in 1996 by the WPA, to fight the stigma and discrimination attached to mental illness. It provides recommendations and guidance for those seeking to join this international effort or start similar efforts. more...
Ethics in Psychiatry
Springer 2010; US$ 179.99"Ethics in Psychiatry" presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research; relates ethical issues to changes and challenges of society; examines the application of general ethics to specific psychiatric problems and relates these to moral implications of psychiatry practice; deals with recently arising... more...
Depressive Disorders
Wiley 2003; US$ 92.00From Chapter 1 "Depression, like many other mental disorders, is characterised by the presence of a number of symptoms which are changeable over time." Among these symptoms are a depressed mood and a loss of interest; physical and cognitive changes may also occur. Because of difficulties in diagnosis (and varied criteria) only estimates in the global... more...
Health and Behaviour
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 49.00This book is an important contribution to the understanding of the relationship between health and behaviour. more...
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Wiley 2003; US$ 92.00Obsessive-compulsive disorder is probably the psychiatric disorder for which most significant progress has been made on the last 20 years concerning pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic interventions. A number of studies have shown that OCD is much more prevalent than previously thought, occurring in an estimated 2% of the adult population around the... more...
Ethics, Culture, and Psychiatry
American Psychiatric Publishing 2008; US$ 76.00Ethics, Culture, and Psychiatry: International Perspectives is much more than just a book on ethics -- it is a major contribution to understanding the impact of culture and history on the ethical practice of medicine around the world. more...
Recovery from Schizophrenia
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 94.99In the late 1960s, the World Health Organization initiated a series of international studies of the incidence, characteristics, course, and consequences of schizophrenia. Those studies - the largest ever in the history of psychiatry - provided important data about the disorder in groups of patients living in different countries and cultures, and first... more...
Depressive Disorders
Wiley 2009; US$ 109.95Depressive disorders have profound social and economic consequences, owing to the suffering and disability they cause. They often occur together with somatic illness which worsens the prognosis of both. Prevention, detection and optimal treatment of these disorders are therefore of great clinical and economic importance. This edition of the first title... more...









