Integrative Psychiatry By Danieal A. Monti and Bernard D. Beitman

Integrative Psychiatry

Daniel A. Monti MD, Bernard D. Beitman MD, "Integrative Psychiatry"
Oxford University Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0195388372 | 512 pages | PDF | 2,1 MB

Contemporary psychiatry is a field that is especially conducive to the principles of integrative medicine. With the exception of a few disorders, such as schizophrenia, most psychiatric disorders respond to interventions other than drugs. Patients who have not tolerated or not responded optimally to traditional treatments are also good candidates for integrative treatments. Additionally, herbals such as St. John's wort for the treatment of depression and ginkgo for the treatment of memory impairment in dementia have been found effective in traditional clinical trials
. Patients' use of alternative and complementary therapies in psychiatry has created a need for physicians to become informed about these treatments, to advise patients on their efficacy, and to be able to make judgments on integrating these therapies into existing regimens, including discussions of such issues as potential drug-herb interactions.

In this volume in the Weil Integrative Medicine Library, the authors describe a rational and evidence-based approach to the integrative therapy of mental disorders integrating the principles of alternative and complementary therapies into the principles and practice of conventional psychiatry and psychology. The authors will examine what works and what doesn't, and offer practical guidelines for physicians to incorporate integrative medicine into their practice and to advise patients on reasonable and effective therapies. The text discusses areas of controversy and identifies areas of uncertainty where future research is needed. Chapters also cite the best available evidence for both the safety and the efficacy of all therapies discussed. The information is presented in accessible and easy-to-read formats, including clinical pearls and key points, with a second text color for highlighting key information.

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Passings: Death, Dying, and Unexplained Phenomena

Carole A. Travis-Henikoff, "Passings: Death, Dying, and Unexplained Phenomena"
Santa Monica Press | 2010 | ISBN: 1595800484 | 312 pages | PDF | 5,3 MB

From dream research and global belief systems to extraordinary occurrences such as near-death and out-of-body experiences, this fascinating study delves into every aspect of death. Taking a scientific and anthropological approach, this examination focuses on how other cultures deal with death, how diverse kinds of death are treated, and how belief systems set the tone for grieving. In addition to the use of science and anthropology, this work includes the author’s own personal experiences as well as other stories that illustrate the striking realities of passing. Beginning with the many losses that occurred during the author’s childhood, Passings moves into an up-close-and-personal look at the tragic three-and-a-half-year period during which she lost her daughter, father, husband, grandmother, and mother. By combining personalized accounts with the scientific and the uncanny, this intriguing overview offers up a comprehensive investigation into the end of life, exploring individual beliefs and encouraging a better understanding of how the human species copes with death and dying.

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Problem Solving in Hypertension

Problem Solving in Hypertension

Problem Solving in Hypertension By Lee Kennedy
Publisher: Clinical Publishing Services 2009-09 | 306 Pages | ISBN: 1846920221 | PDF | 3.4 MB

"Problem Solving in Hypertension" will appeal to a wide audience of physicians who routinely see patients with hypertension in clinical practice. This book presents a selection of challenging cases seen in everyday practice, highlighting learning points and recent developments made in the field. Each case is concise and formatted simply, logically leading the reader through clinical presentations, a series questions/learning points, pertinent background information, recent developments and further reading.Quick and easy to read, ideal for dipping in and out during busy clinical practice, "Problem Solving in Hypertension" is a valuable up-to-date resource for effective strategies to manage primary and secondary hypertension. This book features over 40 clinical presentations covering the most common yet challenging cases seen by specialists. It focuses on both primary and secondary hypertension. It features an excellent training resource and up-to-date referencing to present recent developments in diagnosis and management.

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Primate Psychology

Primate Psychology

Primate Psychology
Harvard University Press | 2005-09-06 | ISBN: 0674018478 | 640 pages | PDF | 2 MB

In more ways than we may sometimes care to acknowledge, the human being is just another primate--it is certainly only very rarely that researchers into cognition, emotion, personality, and behavior in our species and in other primates come together to compare notes and share insights. This book, one of the few comprehensive attempts at integrating behavioral research into human and nonhuman primates, does precisely that--and in doing so, offers a clear, in-depth look at the mutually enlightening work being done in psychology and primatology.

Relying on theories of behavior derived from psychology rather than ecology or biological anthropology, the authors, internationally known experts in primatology and psychology, focus primarily on social processes in areas including aggression, conflict resolution, sexuality, attachment, parenting, social development and affiliation, cognitive development, social cognition, personality, emotions, vocal and nonvocal communication, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopathology. They show nonhuman primates to be far more complex, cognitively and emotionally, than was once supposed, with provocative implications for our understanding of supposedly unique human characteristics. Arguing that both human and nonhuman primates are distinctive for their wide range of context-sensitive behaviors, their work makes a powerful case for the future integration of human and primate behavioral research.

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Fethi Benslama, Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam

Fethi Benslama, Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam

Fethi Benslama, Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
University of Minnesota Press | 2009 | ISBN 0816648891 | 272 Pages | PDF OCR | 6.9 MB

Fethi Benslama is a psychoanalyst who, although a secular thinker, identifies himself as a person of Muslim culture who rejects ready-made explanations for Islamic fundamentalism. In that spirit, Benslama demythifies both Islam and Western ideas of the religion by addressing the psychoanalytic root causes of the Muslim world’s clash with modernity and subsequent turn to fundamentalism.

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Flow: The Psychology Of Optimal Experience

Flow: The Psychology Of Optimal Experience

Flow: The Psychology Of Optimal Experience
Nightingale-Conant | ISBN: 0743525043 | 2002-07-01 | MP3 | 30 Mb

You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is "flow," an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding--an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences a person can have. The exhaustive case studies, controlled experiments and innumerable references to historical figures, philosophers and scientists through the ages prove Csikszentmihalyi's point that flow is a singularly productive and desirable state. But the implications for its application to society are what make the book revolutionary.

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The Power of Intuition

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The Power of Intuition
Publisher: Hay House | ISBN: 1401906222 | edition 2005 | MP3 128 kbps | 62 mb

On this CD, Judith Orloff shares her inspirational life story with Deepak Chopra. Together, they explore the mysterious and often misunderstood world of intuition. Learn how both of these renowned physicians rely on intuition in their practice of medicine. Learn how you can discover and use intuition on a daily basis—for relationship issues, parenting problems, medical decisions, and any other challenges that arise in your life.

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Supernatural Agents: Why We Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas By Iikka Pyysiainen

Supernatural Agents: Why We Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas

Supernatural Agents: Why We Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas By Iikka Pyysiainen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0195380029 | PDF | 1.3 MB

The cognitive science of religion is a rapidly growing field whose practitioners apply insights from advances in cognitive science in order to provide a better understanding of religious impulses, beliefs, and behaviors. In this book Ilkka Pyysiainen shows how this methodology can profitably be used in the comparative study of beliefs about superhuman agents. He begins by developing a theoretical outline of the basic, modular architecture of the human mind and especially the human capacity to understand agency. He then goes on to discuss examples of supernatural agency in detail, arguing that the human ability to attribute beliefs and desires to others forms the basis of conceptions of supernatural agents and of such social cognition in which supernatural agents are postulated as interested parties in social life. Beliefs about supernatural agency are natural, says Pyysiainen, in the sense that such concepts are used in an intuitive and automatic fashion. Two dots and a straight line below them automatically trigger the idea of a face, for example. Given that the mind consists of a host of such modular mechanisms, certain kinds of beliefs will always have a selective advantage over others. Abstract theological concepts are usually elaborate versions of such simpler and more contagious folk conceptions. Pyysiainen uses ethnographical and survey materials as well as doctrinal treatises to show that there are certain recurrent patterns in beliefs about supernatural agents both at the level of folk-religion and of formal theology.

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