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Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers that increasingly populate our movies, television programs, and newspaper headlines. With their flagrant criminal violation of society's rules, serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy are among the most dramatic examples of the psychopath. Individuals with this personality disorder are fully aware of the consequences of their actions and know...

"Bastante tengo con estar loco, como para aguantar además que me llamen enfermo mental". Este comentario de un paciente transmite con lucidez y precisión la oposición entre locura y enfermedad mental, y muestra, asimismo, su preferencia de la primera a la segunda. Las palabras son muy sensibles a los tiempos, las modas y los contextos. Gustan más o menos y son mejor o peor aceptadas dependiendo del ámbito y el momento en que se empleen. A nadie...

El discurso actual, tanto el social como el que se manifiesta en algunos medios psiquiátricos, nos empuja a negar el cuerpo como superficie del lenguaje del síntoma. El cuerpo sería así sólo un objeto biológico o un conjunto de órganos susceptibles de ser educados o reeducados. El libro de Fernando Vicente, que no sólo está dirigido a los profesionales de la salud mental, nos transmite, a través de su recorrido, otras vías para escuchar...

As a doctor of the human psyche for 54 years, R. Duncan Wallace, M.D. has discovered valuable psychological truths that create most of our mental and emotional functioning in all areas of living. Rarely are they, used knowingly because they are largely unconscious and unknown, until now. In The Great Little Book of Stress Release, Dr. Wallace discusses their application to the area of stress. You will learn: • How to instantly remove most stress •...

Conferencia impartida en el acot de apertura de la XXXI edición de la Univeristat d'Estiu de Gandia, el 21 de julio de 2015, a cargo de Rafael Tabarés Seisdedos, Catedrático de Psiquiatría de la Universitat de València e investigador principal de uno de los grupos del Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Salud Mental (CIBERSAM). Tabarés explica cómo desde un punto de vista patológico, el siglo XXI comienza como un periodo psicopatológico,...

Has PTSD invaded your world? Are you always walking on eggshells? Feel like nothing you do is right. Are you the victim of physical, emotional or verbal abuse? Are you in a relationship with someone who suffers from PTSD? Then this book is a must read for you. There is hope! So many spouses of PTSD sufferers have the false belief that nobody can understand what they are going through. Believe me when I say, you are not alone. There are literally thousands...

When Dr. Paul Garfinkel started his career in psychiatry in the 1970s, psychoanalysis dominated the profession. Then the pendulum swung the other way. Psychoanalysis was discredited and drugs became the treatment of choice for mental illness. Throughout his career, Garfinkel has struggled to find a balance between these two poles, between compassion and human touch on one hand and the rigour of science and the prescribed drugs that have revolutionized...

The information explosion we have witnessed in the last two decades has unexpectedly accelerated the relentless, forward evolutionary process of complexity as experienced in the real existential reality as narrated from human to human in the language semantic accounts of our communications. Sometimes there are consistent, verifiable experiences by all witnesses that resist being described in common language terms and their undeniable presence must...

Cette deuxième édition, par des chapitres inédits ou renouvelés et de nouveaux collaborateurs, représente un recueil des interventions de pointe élaborées afin de favoriser le rétablissement des personnes vivant avec un problème de santé mentale important. Des auteurs du Québec, du Canada, des États-Unis et de l'Europe y partagent leur expertise.

Harry Stack Sullivan remains America's most important and unique contributor to dynamic psychiatry. His published writings never conveyed what his theories were nor how he used them to help his patients. In Participant Observation, Leston L.Havens defines and makes operable Sullivan's interviewing methods for the practicing clinician.