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Finally a solid modern overview of clinical psych
Compared to other books in this field this is fun to read and very interesting.

Great practical view of clinical psychology
This is an excellent book that gives a realistic view of clinical psychology in a changing world. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Clinical Psychology    2. Mental Illness    3. Psychology    4. Psychotherapy    5. Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology   

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Great Book
I have applied the principles of "A.B.A." for approximately 10 years. I have worked with numerous families and children who have been afflicted with Autism. I also try to stay up to date on the newest techniques and reading materials. I found this book facsinating and have begun to apply many of these techniques with the children I am currently working with. I work with preschool and school aged children. When these principles are applied correctly I have seen amazing results. I have found this book extremely helpful and only wish I could have found it sooner.

Great part of a program for young children with autism
This book contains a great program for teaching young children with autism how to interpret facial expressions and other social cues.It is aimed at young children. Good for mild autistic young kid
I am father of a mild autistic 4 years old kid. My son drops away a lot of autistic features now after diagnosis at 2 yrs old. He is OK for a lot of things. Now verbal at nearly same age, behaviour OK without any hyper orstrange things, however, social and temper are the areas need to beimproved.With the recommendation of his doctor, I bought this book here.The aim of the book is to teach the kid to know what is proper feeling withdiffeerent environment or situations. The book gives me hints how to tellhim what are expressions, how to react with strange things orenvironments,.. etc...Read more

Subjects:  1. Autism    2. Autism in children    3. Autistic children    4. Clinical Psychology    5. Education    6. Education Of Neurologically Impaired Students    7. Mental Illness    8. Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent    9. Psychology    10. Special Education - General    11. Telepathy    12. Child & developmental psychology    13. Paediatric medicine    14. Psychiatry    15. Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology   

Subjects:  1. Counseling - General    2. Crisis Therapy    3. Crisis intervention (Mental he    4. Crisis intervention (Mental health services)    5. General    6. Handbooks, manuals, etc    7. Mental Illness    8. Psychology    9. Education / Counseling    10. Psychotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - General    2. Classification    3. Mental Illness    4. Mental retardation    5. Psychology   

Subjects:  1. Developmental - General    2. Mental Illness    3. Psychology    4. Psychology, Pathological    5. Psychopathology - General    6. Abnormal psychology    7. Clinical psychology    8. Psychiatry    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

Subjects:  1. Case Studies    2. Mental Health    3. Mental Illness    4. Psychiatry    5. Psychology    6. Psychology, Pathological    7. Psychopathology - General    8. Reference    9. Abnormal psychology    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology   

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Must read for behavioral neurologists
I won't contribute a lengthy review here...Dr. Dawson's review above is quite comprehensive.I'm a clinical neurologist with an interest in cognitive neuroscience and dementia.I thought the book was excellent.Mesulam's first chapter on neuroanatomy, presented from the viewpoint of a behavioral neurologist, was particularly illuminating.Anybody with an interest in behavioral neurology shoudn't hesitate to carefully read this great book!

An Outstanding Review of the Neurological Basis of Behavior
I first became aware of M.-Marsel Mesulam's work at a Harvard sponsored Behavioral Neurology conference more than a decade ago.Several of the co-authors of this book including David Bear, Antonio Damasio, Hanna Damasio, and Elliot Ross also presented at that conference.I obtained a copy of the first edition of Principles of Behavioral Neurology shortly afterwards.The goal of the original book was to provide introductory information about several important areas in behavioral neurology.Since that time I have continued to follow the work of this group of physicians and scientists and have benefited greatly from their insights into human consciousness, cognition, and behavior.I looked forward to the second edition of this book.Read more

Subjects:  1. Brain    2. Complications    3. Diseases    4. Etiology    5. Medical    6. Mental Health    7. Mental Illness    8. Neurology (Specific Aspects)    9. Neurology - General    10. Neuropsychology    11. Nursing - Mental Health    12. Psychology    13. Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)    14. Cognitive theory    15. Medical / Neurology    16. Medicine | Neurology    17. Physiological & neuro-psychology    18. Psychiatry   

Subjects:  1. Handbooks, manuals, etc    2. Human Sexuality    3. Mental Illness    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy - Counseling    6. Psychotherapy - General    7. Reference    8. Sexual disorders    9. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Reference    11. Psychotherapy    12. Sexual behaviour    13. Urology & urogenital medicine   

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The Man Behind the Curtain
If you have read "A Rational Guide to Living" and still consider it somewhat of a "self help" book (with all of the negative connotations that carries), but really want to understand REBT, then I can highly recommend this book.It makes a convincing case for the relevance of this type of therapy, offers no panacea, yet at the same time provides much insight into the methods, challenges, strengths, and shortcomings of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
Change Destructive Beliefs to Heal and Reclaim Happiness
Albert Ellis wrote a goldmine of a book to help people and therapists heal those who are in pain with destructive beliefs, post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, marriage and family, jealousy, OCD, and many other difficulties that CAN be healed. It requires commitment and dedication on the part of the individual to want to heal.
Most up-to-date description of REBT
This book contains the most up-to-date description of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy available. Ellis especially emphasizes the following:Read more

Subjects:  1. Mental Illness    2. Psychology    3. Psychotherapy - General    4. Rational emotive behavior ther    5. Rational emotive behavior therapy    6. Psychotherapy   

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Disappointing
As someone suffering from social anxiety disorder, this book was extremely disappointing.It focuses almost entirely on what causes anxiety and the "suggestions" are not helpful at all.I felt as though all this book did was explain to me what it felt like to have this phobia. If you are looking to research the disorder, it would be a great book. If you are looking for help in battling social anxiety this book will be of no use to you, as I am guessing you already know what it feels like.

Extremely Helpful
If you want to start dealing with your social anxiety, this is a great book to begin with.It teaches the reader excellent techniques to managing anxiety, and even after two years of therapy, I found the relaxtion excrises extremely helpful.Reading this book also gives the shy, lonely person who may have social anxiety a sense of belonging.Reading this book made me realize that I am not the only one with S.A.D. and it really has helped me tremoundlsy.This book is great for starting out with dealing with social anxiety and I would definatly recommend it.

Disappointed
This is the first and only book I've bought concerning social phobia. Perhaps because I had already researched this subject on the web, a lot of the suggestions in this book were common sense and obvious. Too much was devoted to explication (e.g., what causes anxiety, nature vs. nature, what are SSRIs, etc.) vs. providing actual suggestions which I thought was a waste.
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Subjects:  1. General    2. Mental Disorders    3. Neuropsychology    4. Phobias    5. Psychology    6. Psychopathology - General    7. Self-Help    8. Self-help techniques    9. Social Psychology    10. Social phobia   

Subjects:  1. Examination Questions    2. Examinations, questions, etc    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Mental Illness    6. Outlines, syllabi, etc    7. Psychiatry    8. Psychiatry - General    9. Study Guides    10. Test Preparation & Review    11. Study guides, home study & revision notes   

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An interesting option to prepare for the exams
Together with the sinopsis of psychiatry this book is an ideal tool to acquire a good deal of knowledge and preparation for the exams (in my case the MRCPsych part 1 in UK). This will really boost your possibilities!.Good luck!

Borderline Intellectual Functioning is addressed!
The COMPREHENSIVE TEXTBOOK OF PSYCHIATRY, 8th Edition, has a new and very useful Chapter on Borderline Intelligence by the Yale University School of Medicine psychiatrist, Frank John Ninivaggi, MD.
Fun!And educational!
This is an excellent companion to Kaplan and Saddock.I found the toxicology review particularly helpful.The questions are sometimes too detailed but very thought provoking.Good for any behavioral science/psych course. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Examination Questions    2. Examinations, questions, etc    3. Medical    4. Mental Disorders    5. Mental Illness    6. Psychiatry    7. Psychiatry - General    8. Psychology    9. Medical / Psychiatry   

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Clinical Neuropsychology
This text provides an excellent review of Clinical Neuropsychology. Recommended as a primary resource! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Brain Diseases    2. Clinical neuropsychology    3. Diseases Of Central Nervous System    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Mental Disorders    7. Mental Health    8. Mental Illness    9. Neurobehavioral Manifestations    10. Neurology - General    11. Neuropsychiatry    12. Neuropsychology    13. diagnosis    14. Medical / Neurology    15. Medicine | Neuropsychology    16. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology   

Editorial Review

For any caregiver experiencing life with a bipolar child, Demitri and Janice Papolos's Read more

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BP in children definitely exists
I didn't have to read the book to know that BP can be a correct diagnosis in children.During my childhood I had intense emotions and fluidity of thoughts.Standardized tests could not measure creativity in science -- I blew them away.History; forget it.Regardless, the same emotion and thought issues that existed throughout childhood translated to adulthood.Anger became extreme and dangerous in adulthood.This is when I extensively researched psychiatric diagnoses and discovered that BP fit me perfectly.Kay Jamisons book confirmed my research.Many years and much medication later, I'm more normal than normal people.
The first resource I recommend to parents of newly dxd kids
As I was reading this book, I wondered how the authors were able to witness what was going on in my family.It was like they were flies on the wall - they described my family to a T.
Bi-polar Child hard cover book review
This book was exactly as described.It was informative and yet not too medically explicit that I couldn't understand the information being explained.It also held a lot of examples from real families which was also helpful and made me feel like this wasn't just a medical book, it was a tool to help me understand that my child wasn't alone in the world which was comforting to know.
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Subjects:  1. Child Care/Parenting    2. Children with Special Needs    3. Depression (Psychology)    4. Depression in children    5. Family & Relationships    6. Manic-depressive illness    7. Manic-depressive illness in ch    8. Manic-depressive illness in children    9. Mental Illness    10. Parenting - General    11. Pediatrics    12. Psychology    13. Psychoses in children    14. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    15. Child care & upbringing    16. Clinical psychology    17. Psychology & Psychiatry / Child Psychology   

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Value in the Handbook of Psychiatric Measures
I purchased this book because of my studies in family therapy in particular family therapy with young clients who have a developing mental illness.
A Disappointment
The book is good.....The CD that is included containing the actual tests, inventories and measures on it is nearly unacceptable as far as quality.The scanning job was poor and there is nothing that can be doneto improve the quality or change the size.if I had seen it prior to purchase, I wouldn't have bought it.Additionally, when I contacted the publisher, the customer servifce representative was not even remotely interested in my concern or feedback.

Excellent resource for health scales
I was primarily interested in social health scales, and found this book to be an invaluable listing of many of the scales available, including reliability and validity information, and actual scale text on e-file with the attached CD.Not for psychiatrists only, for any health researcher interested in using tested scales. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Diagnosis    2. Handbooks    3. Handbooks, manuals, etc    4. Medical    5. Mental Illness    6. Psychiatric Diagnosis    7. Psychiatric Research    8. Psychiatric Status Rating Scal    9. Psychiatric Status Rating Scales    10. Psychiatric rating scales    11. Psychiatry - General    12. Psychology    13. Reference    14. Research & Methodology    15. Mental health services    16. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    17. Psychotherapy   

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You can't get any closer to the truth
Our society has seen explosive growth in the number of people identified as autistic and an even larger growth of those identified as having symptoms on the "autistic spectrum". So I expect we'll see more and more books and articles describing these two populations and probably more books like "Send In the Idiots" which tells the story of autistic people as researched and written by an autistic person.
interesting for people with autism in the family
I have two children with autism and found this book to be very interesting regarding behaviors and how as adults the subjects lived.However the writing gets a little wordy.The author goes on in detail, for instance, on communication problems.Of course you have to remember that the author has autism himself, which makes me understand his need to go into detail.Still you can speed read over the parts in detail and the actual people are very interesting.I could see my children in some of the subjects and it helped me to understand them a little better.

An inside view of Autism
This book was an eye-opener for me. Since we have a grandchild with ASD, it provided me(us) with an excellent inside and helped me(us) to understand the hurdles which confront children with ASD.
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Subjects:  1. Autism    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. General    4. Mental Illness    5. Psychology    6. Psychopathology - Autism    7. Specific Groups - Special Needs    8. Biography & Autobiography / General   

Subjects:  1. Autism    2. Autistic Disorder    3. Learning Disabilities    4. Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology    5. Life Sciences - Biology - General    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Mental Illness    8. Neuroscience    9. Science    10. Science/Mathematics    11. diagnosis    12. genetics    13. Medical / Neuroscience    14. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology   

Editorial Review

In this age of do-it-yourself health care (heck, if the doctor only sees you for 10 minutes each visit, what other options are there?), Read more

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Liberating!!!
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life was the most facinating and liberating book I have ever read. It really gave me insight to my real problems and assured me that I can change. I would reccommend this book to ANYONE!!!

Pinpoint your trouble spots. Seriously changed my life.
Not just for people with those conditions listed on the cover. It has helped me interact with everybody better.The book helped me to recognize people's strengths and weakness that may or may not be related to brain injuries but more realted to Dr. Amen's physciatric practice and expereince.I played soccer for 12 years I now I'm wondering if my brain has been affected in a negative way from the ball hitting my head so hard. Though it is just a possibility this book gives me some tools to recognize that possibility and take steps on my own to adjust my behavior to work with my own brain misgivings.

Waste of Time & Money
I read this book,a couple years back and was somewhat skeptical,initially. I wondered if just measuring brain metabolism in certain areas can really give you a full picture of whats going on. Still,other parts of the book seemed to contain good advice and insights.
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Subjects:  1. Brain    2. General    3. Mental Disorders    4. Mental Illness    5. Neuropsychiatry    6. Pathophysiology    7. Physiological Psychology    8. Physiological aspects    9. Popular works    10. Psychology    11. Coping with personal problems    12. Psychology & Psychiatry / Physiological Psychology   

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Worth a look--Bowen's definitely got something.
This is a well organized, thoughtful book telling the origins and details of Bowen theory. I particularly like the many cases covered in this book. It appears that they got promising results in helping families with schizophrenic children. There is also a chapter where Dr. Bowen talks about his own efforts at differentiating within his family of origin. It's one thing to talk theory--another to apply it to yourself and then write about it. Fantastic.
Read this book if you know any people
It's rare to find books that are both academically credible and accessible to the layperson. This book is the exception, and the content is truly life changing. It is unfortunate that most of the people who read this book are psychologists or psychiatrists who see it as "just another method" and go back to their simplistic "find the problem and fix it" techniques. Read this book if you know any people
It's rare to find books that are both academically credible and accessible to the layperson. This book is the exception, and the content is truly life changing. It is unfortunate that most of the people who read this book are psychologists or psychiatrists who see it as "just another method" and go back to their simplistic "find the problem and fix it" techniques.Read more

Subjects:  1. Family/Marriage    2. General    3. Mental Illness    4. Psychology    5. Child & developmental psychology    6. Family & relationships    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / Adolescent Psychology    8. Psychotherapy    9. Social, group or collective psychology   

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Breadth and Depth in a Slender Volume
In 1909, during a lecture at Clark University, Dr. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, who was educated to be a neurologist, told his audience in Massachusetts that he was pleased and satisfied that psychoanalysis would only accompany medical doctors for a short distance but then "take leave of them."
Must read
This book should be required reading in all the "helping professions."Dr. McHugh takes on the "acceptable thought" of psychiatry and, in my opinion, gives it a beating.His moral beliefs are strong, and he outlines and defends them well on difficult topics like Jack Kevorkian and Terri Schiavo.I thought very differently until I read him; he has managed to cause me to have second thoughts, which is not an easy thing to do.His concern for the patient shines through everything he writes, and he writes brilliantly.He can be overbearing and arrogant in spots, but it is actually refreshing to hear someone in this field with the courage to put his clear convictions out there for the rest of us.

An oasis
There is so little written regarding psychiatry for the lay audience that makes much sense or is of serious value.While I am not necessarily one to toe the line with regard to Dr. McHugh's hard-line Catholicism, I will say that he is spot-on in lambasting the bad and standing up for the good within psychiatry and our very society, all in this compact little book.This is as indispensable as Strunk and White for all psychiatrists, psychologists, teachers, social workers, parents, singles, and patients.If you've ever wanted to drug children for being children or go to therapy over being dumped by a perpetual adolescent or alter oathes that have lasted millenia simply to please administrators, then there is an essay in here for you.Whether one agrees with him or not, Dr. McHugh's voice is too clarion to ignore. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Collected Works    2. Essays    3. General    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Mental Illness    6. Philosophy    7. Psychiatry    8. Psychiatry - General    9. Psychology    10. Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical