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Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy, Fifth Edition - Paperback

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by Cynthia Kuhn (Author), Scott Swartzwelder (Author), Wilkie Wilson (Author)Fully updated, this matter-of-fact handbook includes the most recent discoveries about drug use, including new information on electronic smoking devices, abuse of prescription stimulants, and the opioid crisis. "Lively, highly informative, unbiased, [and] thorough" (Addiction Research & Theory), Buzzed surveys drugs from caffeine to heroin to reveal how these drugs affect the body, the different "highs" they prod...

Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food - Paperback

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by Rachel Herz (Author)How is personality correlated with preference for sweet or bitter foods? What genres of music best enhance the taste of red wine? With clear and compelling explanations of the latest research, Rachel Herz explores these questions and more in this lively book. Why You Eat What You Eat untangles the sensory, psychological, and physiological factors behind our eating habits, pointing us to a happier and healthier way of engaging with our meals. Number of Pages: 368 Dimensi...

Language, Structure, and Change: Frameworks of Meaning in Psychotherapy - Paperback

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by Jay S. Efran (Author), Robert J. Lukens (Author), Michael D. Lukens (Author)This work on psychotherapeutic dialogue aims to demonstrate how a client-therapist collaborative psychotherapeutic dialogue can help people to disentangle themselves from convoluted conversations and stereotyped usages that keep their lives from developing and to generate new meanings.Back JacketThis down-to-earth guide to practicing therapy does full justice to the autonomy of individuals and the centrality of lan...

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic - Paperback

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by David Quammen (Author)The next big human pandemic--the next disease cataclysm, perhaps on the scale of AIDS or the 1918 influenza--is likely to be caused by a new virus coming to humans from wildlife. Experts call such an event "spillover" and they warn us to brace ourselves. David Quammen has tracked this subject from the jungles of Central Africa, the rooftops of Bangladesh, and the caves of southern China to the laboratories where researchers work in space suits to study lethal viruses....

The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine - Paperback

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by Anne Harrington (Author)Is stress a deadly disease on the rise in modern society? Can mind-body practices from the East help us become well? When it comes to healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter.But why do we believe such things? From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect to meditation, this vibrant cultural history describes mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories, allowing us to ma...

Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center - Paperback

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by Charles R. Morris (Author)Hailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles R. Morris recounts in thrilling detail a late-night against-the-clock "harvest run" to secure a precious transplantable organ, the heartbreaking story of a child's failed transplant, and more. Along the way, Morris reflects on how doctors really think, rising heal...

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves - Paperback

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by Stephen Grosz (Author)We are all storytellers--we create stories to make sense of our lives. A moving collection of short, personal encounters between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding, and human of experiences. Ultimately, these stories show us not only how we love ourselves but how we might find ourselves.Author BiographySTEPHEN GROSZ was born in Indiana and educated at Berkeley and Oxford. ...

Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves - Paperback

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by Patricia Churchland (Author)What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking narrative--drawn from professional expertise as well as personal life experiences--trailblazing neurophilosopher Patricia S. Churchland grounds the philosophy of mind in the essential ingredients of biology. She reflects with humor on how she came to harmonize science and philosophy, ...

The Vital Probe: My Life as a Brain Surgeon - Paperback

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by Irving Spencer Cooper (Author) Number of Pages: 348 Dimensions: 0.78 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2008

Stories for the Third Ear: Using Hypnotic Fables in Psychotherapy - Paperback

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by Lee Wallas (Author)This book includes a step-by-step preparation for clients' receptivity to the stories, describing how rapport can be established and resistance lowered during the initial sessions of hypnotherapy. Then the stories are set within their original clinical context, so that we can comprehend their powerful impact on the course of therapy. Number of Pages: 194 Dimensions: 0.43 x 8.25 x 5.48 IN Publication Date: September 17, 1985

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by Bill O'Hanlon (Author)This is an essential primer of Ericksonian hypnotherapy and strategic psychotherapy. ] O Hanlon provides threads that crystallize practical patterns useful to clinicians at all levels of expertise. Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D., Director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation Number of Pages: 194 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.84 IN Publication Date: January 17, 1987

Adolescent Self: Strategies for Self-Management, Self-Soothing, and Self-Esteem in Adolescents - Paperback

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by David B. Wexler (Author), Wexler (Author)The problems of substance abuse, anxiety, aggression, self-destructive behavior, eating disorders, and mood swings can usually be traced to fundamental deficits, particularly in the ability to self-soothe. This book models a range of carefully designed strategies to address these central problems of the adolescent self. Number of Pages: 210 Dimensions: 0.93 x 9.57 x 6.31 IN Publication Date: May 01, 1991

Solution-Oriented Hypnosis: An Ericksonian Approach - Paperback

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by Bill O'Hanlon (Author), Michael Martin (Author)When most people think of "hypnosis" they imagine either a sinister, Mesmeresque figure declaring to his subject "you're getting sleepier and sleepier ... your eyelids are getting heavier and heavier, you vill go into trance," or an entertainer compelling a subject to "cluck like a chicken." In this comprehensive introduction to hypnosis based on the pioneering work of Milton H. Erickson, Bill O'Hanlon demystifies the concept of "trance" and "...

Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing: New Concepts of Therapeutic Hypnosis (Revised) - Hardcover

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by Ernest L. Rossi (Author)Many of the hypotheses that Rossi proposed when this book was published in 1986 have now been confirmed. The mind-body connection is a process that can be seen, measured and accessed through hypnosis. In establishing that it is possible to use the mind to heal body illness, he now brings together new evidence from psychoneuroimmunology, neuroendocrinology, molecular genetics and neurobiology. More than a dozen new approaches to mind-body healing are outlined in a se...

Rehearsals for Growth: Theater Improvisation for Psychotherapists - Hardcover

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by Daniel J. Wiener (Author)Borrowing techniques from improvisation theatre, RFG is a playful method of promoting creativity, growth and good relationship functioning for both therapist and client. It contains: detailed descriptions and instructions for use of more than 80 games and exercises that are applicable to group, couples, family and individual therapy; 13 case examples and numerous clinical vignettes; and a discussion of how the text relates to other therapeutic approaches and how it...

Hypnosis and Suggestion in the Treatment of Pain: A Clinical Guide - Paperback

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by Joseph Barber (Editor), Ernest R. Hilgard (Foreword by)This book offers guidance from the field's most respected experts on the psychological assessment and treatment of pain, particularly with hypnosis. It covers both syndromes of special interest (cancer pain, recurrent pain syndromes, headache, burn patients, etc.) and special populations (children and the elderly).Back JacketWhen a patient's suffering is not adequately managed by the best medical interventions available, the clinician ...

Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and Their Families - Hardcover

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by David Epston (Author), Jennifer Freeman (Author), Dean Lobovits (Author)This book describes a basic theory of collaborative narrative play, as well as verbal and nonverbal techniques that clear the way for stories of hope, possibility, and change. Compelling case examples, drawn from the authors' work, will appeal to parents and educators as well as therapists. Number of Pages: 342 Dimensions: 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 01, 1997

Escape from Babel: Toward a Unifying Language for Psychotherapy Practice - Paperback

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by Barry L. Duncan (Author), Mark a. Hubble (Author), Scott D. Miller (Author)The authors want readers to shake their allegiance to masters and models and focus on the basics of relationship, hope, and a plan for the future. Theirs is a simple but effective approach.Back JacketWhile "psychotherapy" has been busily dividing into hundreds of different models, research shows that it doesn't really matter which approach you use, which guru you follow, or which fancy techniques you adopt. Yet ther...

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by Laurie Anne Pearlman (Author), Karen W. Saakvitne (Author)In your profession, do you help or work with people who have been traumatized? Do you listen to stories of abuse, suffering, or trauma from your clients every day? If so, you know it is important to hear and bear witness to trauma survivors' experiences and not be changed. You know firsthand the personal cost of the work you do and the struggle to make sense of powerful, often painful, feelings and altered beliefs. This transformati...

Assertive Community Treatment of Persons with Severe Mental Illness - Paperback

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by Alberto B. Santos (Author), Leonard I. Stein (Author)In addition to laying out the basics of staffing and running a community based program for the mentally ill, this text offers guidance on such issues as financing the program and treating drug abusers. Number of Pages: 290 Dimensions: 0.73 x 10.04 x 8 IN Publication Date: March 17, 1998

Pediatric Psychopharmacology: Fast Facts - Hardcover

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by Daniel F. Connor (Author), Bruce M. Meltzer (Author)This new title in the Fast Facts series, full of up-to-date and authoritative information, is a critical resource for all health care professionals working with children and adolescents.Psychiatrists, prescribing psychologists, psychotherapists, pediatricians, family practice physicians, pediatric neurologists, nurse practitioners, allied mental health professionals, and trainees in these professions are provided with: General introducto...

Children with Sexual Behavior Problems: Family-Based, Attachment-Focused Therapy - Hardcover

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by William N. Friedrich (Author)Prevailing taboos about sex and the misconception that inappropriate sexual behavior is always a sign of sexual abuse inhibits frank conversation and often leads families to hide problems. Here William Friedrich, with more than 25 years of experience in the field, offers a research-based and clinically-proven method for assessment, diagnosis, and intervention with children and their families. This book distinguishes itself by Friedrich's emphasis on addressing ...

Does Stress Damage the Brain?: Understanding Trauma-Related Disorders from a Mind-Body Perspective - Paperback

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by J. Douglas Bremner (Author)Can what you see, hear, feel, and experience actually result in a permanent change in your brain? This provocative question arose from research discoveries by J. Douglas Bremner and others that showed that extreme stress might result in lasting damage to the brain. Anyone who has experienced even moderate stress in their life will benefit from the insights in this clearly written, accessible book. Number of Pages: 332 Dimensions: 0.97 x 8.26 x 5.58 IN Publication...

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by Kenneth Sakauye (Author)This is also true in psychiatry, where the number of geriatric psychiatry specialists falls far short of the need. Because of this unbalance, general psychiatrists--many of whom have little or no training or experience in dealing with older adults and their specific issues--are now being called upon to offer care to this population. In this book, Sakauye covers issues fundamental to the field of geriatric psychiatry that are not addressed well in general adult train...

Psychotropic Drugs: Fast Facts - Paperback

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by Jerrold S. Maxmen (Author), Sidney H. Kennedy (Author), Roger S. McIntyre (Author)Organized by major drug classes, it offers comprehensive data on dosage, side effects, drug-drug interactions, withdrawal, and more--everything clinicians need to know to properly manage their clients' pharmacological treatment. Number of Pages: 286 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9.16 x 6.18 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 01, 2008

A Clinician's Guide to 12-Step Recovery: Integrating 12-Step Programs Into Psychotherapy - Hardcover

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by Mark Schenker (Author)Most rehabilitation programs offer both twelve-step treatment and psychotherapy, but they are not integrated either in theory or in practice. While intuitively there would appear to be a clear connection between these two areas, in fact, they remain uncomfortable allies, and sometimes not even that. People in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction are often wary of professionals who have no personal experience of addiction and recovery. For a novice therapist (and m...

Outpatient Psychiatry: A Beginner's Guide - Paperback

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by Thomas E. Steele (Author)This brief primer provides knowledge that will reduce therapists' initial anxiety and heighten their competence in working with outpatients; it covers psychotherapeutic techniques, uses of psychotropic medication, and pertinent issues from the expanding field of therapy research, and includes advice about what to do and what not to do. Number of Pages: 194 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9.26 x 6.34 IN Publication Date: September 17, 2007

Return of the Rishi: A Doctor's Story of Spiritual Transformation and Ayurvedic Healing - Paperback

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by Deepak Chopra (Author)A remarkable first-person account of a young doctor's spiritual journey. Chopra guides us from his beginnings in India, through the conventional training of a Western physician, to his discovery of the ancient traditions of India's Ayurveda and the dimension of the mind in medicine. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: January 24, 1991

How to Use Herbs, Nutrients, & Yoga in Mental Health - Paperback

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by Richard P. Brown (Author), Patricia L. Gerbarg (Author), Philip R. Muskin (Author)Many physicians and therapists agree that herbs and mind-body practices enhance health, but many more are reluctant to integrate them into their clinical work because of a lack of training or, given how long it takes to master the use of hundreds of different herbs, a lack of time. But the trend is clear: clients and consumers alike want control over their health care choices, making the time ripe for a pract...

Integrative Parenting: Strategies for Raising Children Affected by Attachment Trauma - Paperback

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by Debra Wesselmann (Author), Cathy Schweitzer (Author), Stefanie Armstrong (Author)Designed as a manual to complement the clinician's guide, Integrative Team Treatment for Attachment Trauma in Children: Family Therapy and EMDR, this book is written for birth, foster, or adoptive parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, or anyone who may be raising a child who has experienced attachment loss and trauma. Their severe behaviors can often leave caregivers feeling confused, frightened, hurt, and ...

No Contest: The Case Against Competition - Paperback

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by Alfie Kohn (Author)No Contest stands as the definitive critique of competition. Contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to human nature; it poisons our relationships and holds us back from doing our best. In this new edition, Alfie Kohn argues that the race to win turns all of us into losers. Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 03, 2012

Successful Psychopharmacology: Evidence-Based Treatment Solutions for Achieving Remission - Paperback

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by Stephen V. Sobel (Author)This book teaches mental health professionals how to choose and use psychotropic medications to address the biological etiology of psychiatric disease and mental health. It helps readers understand the key aspects of psychotherapy to deal with the psychosocial factors that prescribers need to know to use these medications within the context of the patient's life. This book is based on the premise that all mental health--in the most symptomatic, impaired individual ...