Die Geschlossenheit der Darstellung und das hohe Mass an verstandlicher Formulierung der komplizierten Zusammenhange zeichnen dieses Buch aus und sind bisher von keinem anderen Autor so klar vorgelegt. Die ausserordentlich effektiven Methoden der systemischen Psychotherapie erhalten in diesem Buch eine theoretische Einordnung, so dass die Methoden selbst verstandlicher und entmystifiziert werden. Sie erhalten dadurch eine zusatzliche Eigenstandigkeit. Dadurch, dass die systemische Theorie sich selbst als Theorie begrunden kann, hat sie den Charakter einer universalistischen Theorie und macht sie im Vergleich zu Psychoanalyse und Verhaltenstherapie besonders attraktiv. Dieses Buch bietet fundierte Argumente und entwirft futuristische Horizonte.
"Dem Autor ist es auf beeindruckende Weise gelungen, die Wirklichkeit der Wirklichkeit der Psychosomatik darzustellen. Mit einer Fulle von interessanten Ideen uberwindet er traditionelles Denken und entwirft eine Theorie der biopsychosozialen Medizin der Zukunft."
Paul Watzlawick
"Konsequent verfolgt Dr. Bokmann das Ziel, kybernetische Uberlegungen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen zusammenzutragen und zusammenzudenken und fur die Medizin und Psychosomatik fruchtbar zu machen. Diese Zusammenschau ist eine einzigartige Leistung: ein hervorragendes Buch "
Prof. Heinz von Foerster"

"New York Times" Bestseller

"As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find."
--from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs

Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits--an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs, in them)--had earned him the label "social deviant." It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger's syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he saw himself--and the world. A born storyteller, Robison has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own. It's a strange, sly, indelible account--sometimes alien yet always deeply human.

Mai sentito parlare dell'uomo che visse con un buco nella testa? O del ragazzo cresciuto dai suoi come se fosse una ragazza? Della donna dalle molteplici personalita o dell'uomo senza cervello? Questa raccolta di casi e ricca di affascinanti intuizioni sulla mente umana; alcuni sono poco conosciuti mentre altri sono piu famosi e hanno guidato la pratica clinica.
Per questa seconda edizione, presentata per la prima volta in versione italiana, l'autore Geoff Rolls ha incluso recenti scoperte su ciascuna delle storie presentate e ha aggiunto casi completamente nuovi come la storia di Washoe, la scimmia che poteva comunicare, il caso dibattuto di Holly Ramona e della memoria repressa o la storia di Kim Peek, il vero "Rainman."
"Casi classici in psicologia" e rivolto sia agli studenti di psicologia, che potranno cosi approfondire la loro conoscenza su questi studi, sia a tutti coloro che desiderano apprendere qualcosa di nuovo sul comportamento umano. Il volume infatti e corredato da un glossario di termini psicologici in modo da rendere i contenuti accessibili a tutti.

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The distinguished historian of medicine Gerald Grob analyzes the post-World War II policy shift that moved many severely mentally ill patients from large state hospitals to nursing homes, families, and subsidized hotel rooms--and also, most disastrously, to the streets. On the eve of the war, public mental hospitals were the chief element in the American mental health system. Responsible for providing both treatment and care and supported by major portions of state budgets, they employed more than two-thirds of the members of the American Psychiatric Association and cared for nearly 98 percent of all institutionalized patients. This study shows how the consensus for such a program vanished, creating social problems that tragically intensified the sometimes unavoidable devastation of mental illness. Examining changes in mental health care between 1940 and 1970, Grob shows that community psychiatric and psychological services grew rapidly, while new treatments enabled many patients to lead normal lives. Acute services for the severely ill were expanded, and public hospitals, relieved of caring for large numbers of chronic or aged patients, developed into more active treatment centers. But since the main goal of the new policies was to serve a broad population, many of the most seriously ill were set adrift without even the basic necessities of life. By revealing the sources of the euphemistically designated policy of "community care," Grob points to sorely needed alternatives. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old-and again when she was eighteen-she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating disorders-their history, diagnosis, lived realities, treatment, and place in the American cultural imagination. Famished, the culmination of over two decades of anthropological and clinical work, as well as a lifetime of lived experience, presents a profound rethinking of eating disorders and how to treat them. Through a mix of rich cultural analysis, detailed therapeutic accounts, and raw autobiographical reflections, Famished helps make sense of why people develop eating disorders, what the process of recovery is like, and why treatments so often fail. It's also an unsparing condemnation of the tension between profit and care in American healthcare, demonstrating how a system set up to treat a disease may, in fact, perpetuate it. Fierce and vulnerable, critical and hopeful, Famished will forever change the way you understand eating disorders and the people who suffer with them.

Disturbo di personalita borderline e un testo conciso, chiaro, e prevalentemente pratico, che offre un prezioso aggiornamento ai professionisti della salute mentale soddisfacendo contemporaneamente la grande richiesta di informazione e supporto che proviene dagli stessi pazienti e dalle loro famiglie e amici. I capitoli dedicati alla famiglia danno voce ad esperienze vissute, rinforzando la speranza che il coinvolgimento del gruppo familiare nella terapia possa essere di beneficio per tutti.

Questo volume, allo stesso tempo professionale e divulgativo, raccoglie i lungimiranti e aggiornati punti di vista di 15 esperti. Questi autori offrono un nuovo modo di interpretare il DPB, suggerendo che fattori genetici ed eventi stressanti possono combinarsi per scatenare la sua insorgenza; portano inoltre nuove evidenze a supporto dei benefici ottenuti con specifiche terapie farmacologiche e diverse forma di psicoterapia, tra cui la terapia comportamentale dialettica. Per finire, offrono nuove risorse alle famiglie per aiutarle a rapportarsi con le sregolate emozioni delle persone affette da queste disturbo e a costruire degli efficaci sistemi di supporto per se stesse.

Il testo si concentra soprattutto sull importanza dell alleanza tra gli operatori della salute mentale e le famiglie dei pazienti affetti da DPB, sui vantaggi che tale collaborazione puo portare nella comprensione e nel trattamento di questo disturbo, offrendo nel contempo a tutte le parti coinvolte una grande speranza per il futuro."