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Perspectives in Cross-cultural Psychiatry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Perspectives in Cross-cultural Psychiatry

This volume presents cutting-edge work in cross-cultural psychiatry by an international group of clinicians, researchers, and leaders in mental health policy. The book grew out of a recent lecture series at the Massachusetts General Hospital and features contributions from diverse fields including psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, social work, social medicine, and public policy. The first section highlights the implications of biological and cultural diversity for psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. Subsequent sections focus on psychotherapy in cross-cultural contexts and international mental health policy. Chapters examine a variety of patient populations, including Asian, African, and Hispanic Americans and populations in Europe and developing countries.

Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Mental Health and Aging
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 593

Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Mental Health and Aging

A comprehensive summary of the state-of-the-art of the field in clinical practice and research in the second decade of the 21th century Features future directions for research and clinical practice in integrative medicine and aging.

Managing Your Depression
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

Managing Your Depression

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-29
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

As a physician who personally suffers from depression, Susan J. Noonan draws on her own expertise and empathy to create a guide for people who suffer from the disease. Explaining the basics of mental health—including sleep hygiene, diet and nutrition, exercise, routine and structure, and avoiding isolation— Managing Your Depression empowers people to participate in their own care, offering them a better chance of getting, and staying, well. Noonan’s depression management strategies draw on the best available educational resources, psychoeducational programs, seminars, expert health care providers, and patient experiences. The book is specifically designed to be highly readable for peop...

The LDN Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

The LDN Book

Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) holds the potential to help millions of people suffering from various autoimmune diseases and cancers, and even autism, chronic fatigue, and depression, find relief. Administered off-label in small daily doses (0.5 to 4.5 mg), this generic drug is extremely affordable and presents few known side effects. So why has it languished in relative medical obscurity? The LDN Book explains the drug's origins, its primary mechanism, and the latest research from practicing physicians and pharmacists as compiled by Linda Elsegood of The LDN Research Trust, the world's largest LDN charity organization with over 19,000 members worldwide. Featuring ten chapters contributed by medical professionals on LDN's efficacy and two patient-friendly appendices, The LDN Book is a comprehensive resource for doctors, pharmacists, and patients who want to learn more about how LDN is helping people now, and a clarion call for further research that could help millions more.

Reverse Depression Naturally
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 117

Reverse Depression Naturally

Offering breakthrough and effective holistic methods to manage and reduce depression and anxiety naturally from a leading naturopathic doctor. Globally, more than 300 million people of all ages suffer from depression and that number is only increasing. Reverse Depression Naturally provides a comprehensive overview of depression and anxiety and how to effectively and naturally manage them. It's a complete resource of healing remedies, dietary recommendations, mental exercises, and protocols. Reverse Depression Naturally offers practical tips and alternative solutions to popular treatments as well as beneficial supplements and home remedies. The book also features sections on stress, mental illness, alcoholism, and post-partum depression.

Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry - E-BOOK
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1074

Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry - E-BOOK

The Massachusetts General Hospital is widely regarded as one of the world's premier psychiatric institutions. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, 3rd Edition, offers practical, informative, and hands-on advice from the staff of the esteemed MGH Department of Psychiatry, helping you put today's best practices to work for your patients. This authoritative reference covers a wide variety of clinical syndromes and settings, aided by superb graphics throughout. In one convenient volume, you'll have easy access to the answers you need to face and overcome any clinical challenge. - Uses a reader-friendly and highly templated format with abundant boxed summaries, bullet...

Remember Me?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Remember Me?

Remember Me? is an award-winning guidebook for owners of dogs who are losing their mental faculties as they age, and the story of a dog and owner who retained their bond through this most difficult situation. If you have an aging dog, Remember Me? will give you the information you need to weather the difficult condition and give your dog the most fulfilling life possible. In Remember Me, you will learn: • About the symptoms of canine cognitive dysfunction, medications and other interventions that are showing promise in treating the condition; • How to adapt your home and habits to keep your dog safe; • The many products available to solve the problems of senior dogs; • How to make th...

Healing with Red Light Therapy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 122

Healing with Red Light Therapy

Discover the power of low-level laser therapy (aka photobiomodulation) for the pain-free treatment of arthritis, psoriasis, hair loss, acne, and more. Red light therapy is dramatically changing the world of health care. Studies show using red and near-infrared light can have incredible effects, from managing chronic pain to even slowing the signs of aging. This natural, drug-free, red light therapy treatment can be found at your doctor’s office, spa, and even in the comfort of your own home. These at-home lights are increasing in popularity as they become more affordable and accessible online, but using them safely and effectively is crucial. With so many different devices, online advisori...

Spirituality in the Biomedical World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

Spirituality in the Biomedical World

The need to take the spiritual experience during illness into account is part of a broader trend in Western societies—a fascination with the practical uses of spirituality and its contribution to individual wellbeing, whether through a religious or a humanist tradition. This understanding of spirituality differs from traditional views embedded in religious traditions. This book takes a critical point of view at the biomedical representation of the function of spirituality in care. Medicine reorders notions such as life, death, health, sickness, and spirituality. This process is called here “sapientialization”, i.e. the spiritual experience is expressed and understood under the auspices...

Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry E-Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 791

Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry E-Book

For generations of practitioners, the Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry has been and is the "gold standard" guide to consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. The fully updated 7th Edition, by Drs. Theodore A. Stern, Oliver Freudenreich, Felicia A. Smith, Gregory L. Fricchione, and Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, provides an authoritative, easy-to-understand review of the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of psychiatric problems experienced by adults and children with medical and surgical conditions. Covers the psychological impact of chronic medical problems and life-threatening diseases, somatic symptom disorders, organ donors and recipients,...