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108 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 computer disc (5 1/4 in.) + 1 pictorial book (unpaged : color illustrations ; 21 cm) in portfolio

Camdex-R : the Cambridge examination for mental disorders of the elderly / Martin Roth, Felicia A. Huppert, C. Q. Mountjoy, Elizabeth Tym.

International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry

Alternative perspectives on psychiatric validation : DSM, ICD, RDoC, and beyond / edited by Peter Zachar, Drozdstoj St. Stoyanov, Massimiliano Aragona, Assen Jablensky.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5 / [American Psychiatric Association ; DSM-5 Task Force].

Mad science : psychiatric coercion, diagnosis, and drugs / Stuart A. Kirk, Tomi Gomory, & David Cohen.

Clinical insights

x, 93 pages : black and white illustrations illustrations ; 21 cm.

Brain imaging in psychiatry / edited by John M. Morihisa, MD.

Medical Heritage Library

Report of the Committee appointed at a meeting of members of the Medico-Psychological Association, held at the College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on the 25th November, 1869, for the purpose of taking certain questions relating to the uniform recording of cases of insanity, and to the medical treatment of insanity into consideration.

<p>"The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5 explores all revisions to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, and shows clinicians how they can best apply the strong points and shortcomings of psychiatry's most contentious resource. Written by a celebrated professor of psychiatry, this reader-friendly book uses evidence-based critiques and new research to point out where DSM-5 is right, where it is wrong, and where the jury's still out. Along the way, The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5 sifts through the many public controversies and clinical debates surrounding the drafting of the manual and shows how they inform a modern understanding of psychiatric illness, diagnosis and treatment. This book is necessary reading for all mental health professionals as they grapple with the first major revision of the DSM to appear in over 30 years." -- Publisher's website.</p>

The intelligent clinician's guide to the DSM-5 ® / Joel Paris, MD Professor of psychiatry, McGill University Montreal, Canada.

2 volumes (4 unnumbered pages, xv, 1 unnumbered page, 324, viii; 4 unnumbered pages, vi, 6 unnumbered pages, 541, iv, 1 unnumbered page) ; 22 cm (8vo)

Observations on the nature, kinds, causes, and prevention of insanity, lunacy, or madness / By Thomas Arnold.

DSM-IV options book : work in progress / Task Force on DSM-IV, American Psychiatric Association.

<p>In this book the author, a psychiatrist, makes a critique of the widespread medicalization of normality. He argues that the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders threatens to destroy what is considered normal and that grief, sorrow, stress, disappointment, and other feelings are part of life, not a psychiatric disease. Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. These challenges are a normal part of being human, and they should not be treated as psychiatric disease. However, today millions of people who are really no more than "worried well" are being diagnosed as having a mental disorder and are receiving unnecessary treatment. Here the author warns that mislabeling everyday problems as mental illness has shocking implications for individuals and society: stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of horizons, misallocation of medical resources, and draining of the budgets of families and the nation. We also shift responsibility for our mental well-being away from our own naturally resilient and self-healing brains, which have kept us sane for hundreds of thousands of years, and into the hands of "Big Pharma," who are reaping multi-billion-dollar profits. He cautions that the new edition of the "bible of psychiatry," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5), will turn our current diagnostic inflation into hyperinflation by converting millions of "normal" people into "mental patients." Alarmingly, in DSM-5, normal grief will become "Major Depressive Disorder"; the forgetting seen in old age is "Mild Neurocognitive Disorder"; temper tantrums are "Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder"; worrying about a medical illness is "Somatic Symptom Disorder";  gluttony is "Binge Eating Disorder"; and most of us will qualify for adult "Attention Deficit Disorder." What's more, all of these newly invented conditions will worsen the cruel paradox of the mental health industry: those who desperately need psychiatric help are left shamefully neglected, while the "worried well" are given the bulk of the treatment, often at their own detriment. Charting the history of psychiatric fads throughout history, the author argues that whenever we arbitrarily label another aspect of the human condition a "disease," we further chip away at our human adaptability and diversity, dulling the full palette of what is normal and losing something fundamental of ourselves in the process.-- From book jacket.</p>

Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life / Allen Frances, M.D.

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Camdex-R : the Cambridge examination for mental disorders of the elderly / Martin Roth, Felicia A. Huppert, C. Q. Mountjoy, Elizabeth Tym.

Alternative perspectives on psychiatric validation : DSM, ICD, RDoC, and beyond / edited by Peter Zachar, Drozdstoj St. Stoyanov, Massimiliano Aragona, Assen Jablensky.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5 / [American Psychiatric Association ; DSM-5 Task Force].

Mad science : psychiatric coercion, diagnosis, and drugs / Stuart A. Kirk, Tomi Gomory, & David Cohen.

Brain imaging in psychiatry / edited by John M. Morihisa, MD.

The intelligent clinician's guide to the DSM-5 ® / Joel Paris, MD Professor of psychiatry, McGill University Montreal, Canada.

Observations on the nature, kinds, causes, and prevention of insanity, lunacy, or madness / By Thomas Arnold.

DSM-IV options book : work in progress / Task Force on DSM-IV, American Psychiatric Association.

Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life / Allen Frances, M.D.

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Camdex-R : the Cambridge examination for mental disorders of the elderly / Martin Roth, Felicia A. Huppert, C. Q. Mountjoy, Elizabeth Tym.

Alternative perspectives on psychiatric validation : DSM, ICD, RDoC, and beyond / edited by Peter Zachar, Drozdstoj St. Stoyanov, Massimiliano Aragona, Assen Jablensky.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5 / [American Psychiatric Association ; DSM-5 Task Force].

Mad science : psychiatric coercion, diagnosis, and drugs / Stuart A. Kirk, Tomi Gomory, & David Cohen.

Brain imaging in psychiatry / edited by John M. Morihisa, MD.

The intelligent clinician's guide to the DSM-5 ® / Joel Paris, MD Professor of psychiatry, McGill University Montreal, Canada.

Observations on the nature, kinds, causes, and prevention of insanity, lunacy, or madness / By Thomas Arnold.

DSM-IV options book : work in progress / Task Force on DSM-IV, American Psychiatric Association.

Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life / Allen Frances, M.D.

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