Contents:
OVERVIEW
Lewis, D.A. and Lieberman, J.A. 'Catching Up on Schizophrenia, Natural History and Neurobiology.'Neuron 28 (2000).

EPIDEMIOLOGY
Kendler, K., Gallagher, T., Abelson, J., and Kessler, R.C. 'Lifetime Prevalence, Demographic Risk Factors, and Diagnostic Validity of Nonaffective Psychosis as Assessed in a US Community Sample.'Archives of General Psychiatry 53 (1996).
Mortensen, P.B., Pedersen, C.B., Westergaard, T., Wohlfahrt, J., Ewald, H., Mors, O., Andersen, P.K., and Melbye, M. 'Effects of Family History and Place and Season of Birth on the Risk of Schizophrenia.' New England Journal of Medicine 340 (1999).

GENETICS
Riley, B.P. and McGuffin, P. 'Linkage and Association Studies of Schizophrenia.' American Journal of Medical Genetics 97 (2000).
Baron, M. 'Genetics of Schizophrenia and the New Millenium: Progress and Pitfalls.' American Journal of Human Genetics 68 (2001).
Kety, S.S., Rosenthal, D., Wender, P.H., and Schulsinger, F. 'Mental Illness in the Biological and Adoptive Familes of Adopted Schizophrenics.' American Journal of Psychiatry 128 (1971)

NATURAL HISTORY
Bromet, E.J. and Fennig, S. 'Epidemiology and Natural History of Schizophrenia.' Biological Psychiatry 46 (1999).
Hearton, R.K., Gladsjo, J.A., Palmer, B.W., Kuck, J., Marcotte, T.D., and Jeste, D.V. 'Stability and Course of Neuropsychological Deficits in Schizophrenia.' Archives of General Psychiatry 58 (2001)
Robinson, D., Woerner, M.G., Alvir, J.M., Bilder, R., Goldman, R., Geisler, S., Koreen, A., Sheitman, B., Chakos, M., Mayerhoff, D., and Lieberman, J.A. 'Predictors of Relapse Following Response From a First Episode of Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder.' Archives of General Psychiatry 56 (1999).

NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
Akil, M., Pierri, J.N., Whitehead, R.E., Edgar, C.L., Mohila, C., Sampson, A.R, and Lewis, D.A. 'Lamina-Specific Alterations in the Dopamine Innervation of the Prefrontal Cortex in Schizophrenic Subjects.' American Journal of Psychiatry 156 (1999).
Arnold, S.E., Trojanowski, J.Q., Gur, R.E., Blackwell, P., Han, L.Y., and Choi, C. 'Absence of Neurodegeneration and Neural Injury in the Cerebral Cortex in a Sample of Elderly Patients with Schizophrenia.' Archives of General Psychiatry 55 (1998)
Braver, T.S., Barch, D.M., and Cohen, J.D., 'Cognition and Control in Schizophrenia: A Computational Model of Dopamine and Prefrontal Function.' Biological Psychiatry 46 (1999).
Glantz, L.A. and Lewis, D.A. 'Decreased Dendritic Spine Density on Prefrontal Cortical Pyramidal Neurons in Schizophrenia.' Archives of General Psychiatry 57 (2000).
Laruelle, M., Abi-Dargham, A., van Dyck, C.H., Gil, R., D'Souza, C.D., Erdos, J., McCance, E., Rosenblatt, W., Fingado, C., Zoghbi, S.S., Baldwin, R.M., Seibyl, J.P., Krystal, J.H., Charney, D.S., and Innis R.B., 'Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography Imaging of Amphetamine-Induced Dopamine Release in Drug-Free Schizophrenic Subjects.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 93 (1996).
Okubo, Y., Suhara, T., Suzuki, K., Kobayashi, K., Inoue, O., Terasaki, O., Someya, Y., Sassa, T., Sudo, Y., Matsushima, E., Iyo, M., Tateno, Y., and Toru, M. 'Decreased Prefrontal Dopamine D1 Receptors in Schizophrenia Revealed by PET.' Nature 385 (1997).
Rajkowska, G., Selemon, L.D., and Goldman-Rakic, P.S. 'Neuronal and Glial Somal Size in the Prefrontal Cortex: A Postmortem Morphometric Study of Schizophrenia and Huntingdon Disease.' Archives of General Psychiatry 55 (1998).
Rapoport, J.L., Giedd, J.N., Blumenthal, J., Hamburger, S., Jeffries, N., Fernandez, T., Nicholson, R., Bedwell, J., Lenane, M., Zijdenbos, A., Paus, T., and Evans, A. 'Progressive Cortical Change During Adolescence in Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia. A Longitudinal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.' Archives of General Psychiatry 56 (1999).
Selemon, L.D. and Goldman-Rakic, P.S. 'The Reduced Neuropil Hypothesis: A Circuit Based Model of Schizophrenia.' Biological Psychiatry 45 (1999).
Suddath, R.L., Christison, G.W., Torrey, E.F., Casanova, M.F., and Weinberger, D.R. 'Anatomical Abnormalities in the Brains of Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Schizophrenia.' New England Journal of Medicine 322 (1990).
Weinberger, D.R. 'Implications of Normal Brain Development for the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia.' Archives of General Psychiatry 44 (1987).

TREATMENT
Bustillo, J.R., Lauriello, J., Horan, W.P., and Keith, S.J. 'The Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia: An Update.' American Journal of Psychiatry 158 (2001).
Castner, S.A., Williams, G.V., and Goldman-Rakic, P.S. 'Reversal of Antipsychotic-Induced Working Memory Deficits by Short-Term Dopamine D1 Receptor Stimulation.' Science 287 (2000).
Kapur, S., Zipursky, R.B., Remington, G. 'Clinical and Theoretical Implications of 5HT2 and D2 Receptor Occupancy of Clozapine, Risperidone, and Olanzapine in Schizophrenia.' American Journal of Psychiatry 156 (1999).
Lidow, M.S., Song, Z.-M., Castner, S.A., Allen, P.B., Greengard, P., and Goldman-Rakic, P.S. 'Antipsychotic Treatment Induces Alterations in Dendrite and Spine Associated Proteins in Dopamine-Rich Areas of the Primate Cerebral Cortex.' Biological Psychiatry 49 (2001).

Anxiety disorders are the number-one psychiatric problem in the United States, yet many clients who suffer from anxiety do not get effective counseling, and they often end therapy without successful amelioration of their symptoms. Carolyn Daitch, a seasoned therapist and award-winning author, has found that clients benefit most when they are active participants in their therapy, and should be knowledgeable about anxiety disorders to facilitate this process. For the benefit of both therapists and clients, she covers the ins and outs of the anxiety disorders-Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Specific Phobias, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder-and offers numerous case examples of those who have sought treatment for these disorders and learned to manage them. For each type of anxiety disorder, she details specific treatment options and techniques, explaining which are best suited to individual use, and which are better done in collaboration with a therapist. Engaging, comprehensive, and reassuring, this is an essential Go-To Guide.

In this book, Paul Campos argues that the American worship of law and legality can at times become so pathological that it comes to resemble a type of legal madness, or Jurismania. Campos offers an intensely critical look at the role of law and legal reason in American society, and concludes that much of what is called the rule of law resembles a culturally sanctioned form of obsessive-compulsive behaviour.

Bipolar disorder is one of the most common and potentially devastating psychiatric illnesses. This essential text book provides clinicians with an extraordinarily well-balanced and comprehensive overview of rational and research-informed contemporary clinical practice in the assessment and medical management of patients with bipolar disorder. With the advent of a new generation of treatments, there is a resurgence of interest in the pharmacological treatment of bipolar disorders. In Bipolar Disorder, clinicians who are faced with making choices from a variety of treatments are instructed how to mold their practice around the long-term symptomatic and functional needs of their patients. With a focus on pharmacotherapy, the foundation of symptomatic treatment, Bipolar Disorder provides the most recent analysis of the data regarding efficacy and safety of medications along with practical guidelines with which treatment choices can be made.

Issues in the Developmental Approach to Mental Retardation is one of the first books exclusively devoted to applying the theories, findings and approaches used in work with nonretarded children to several types of retarded individuals. The editors and contributors define the developmental approach and explore theoretical issues as they relate to retarded populations. Problems involving similar sequences of development, cross-domain relations, the environment, and motivation are all discussed, as is the importance of separating the various etiological groups for research and intervention purposes. The contributors also examine the nature of development in specific etiological groups; types of retardation that are addressed include: cultural-familial retardation, Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, autism, and children with sensory and motor handicaps. This significant volume demonstrates how data from nonretarded development can inform work with retarded populations and how findings from children with mental retardation enrich developmental theory.

The Borderline Psychotic Child reviews the history and evolution of the borderline diagnosis for children, both in the USA and the UK, bringing the reader up to date with current clinical opinion on the subject. Using a range of clinical case studies, the book attempts to harmonise US and UK views on borderline diagnosis in the light of new developments in theory at The Menninger Clinic, The Anna Freud Centre and The Tavistock Clinic. Providing an introduction to the borderline concept, and a systematic overview of current theoretical thinking and clinical practices from leading practitioners in the field, The Borderline Psychotic Child will make informative reading both for professionals and students in the field of child analysis.

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Food for Thought offers fresh psychoanalytic insights into treating clients with eating disorders. In lively and jargon-free language, Nina Savelle-Rocklin breaks down the psychoanalytic approach to give practitioners and general readers alike a deeper understanding of the theory and effective treatment of eating disorders. Those living with eating disorders often use food to express their inner feelings, and Savelle-Rocklin illustrates the importance of the therapeutic relationship in uncovering the nature of these internal emotions, and formulating them into words. Through an intensive and mutual process, clients can begin to understand the language of the eating disorder, identify and work through its underlying conflicts, ultimately eliminating symptoms, relieving distress, and transforming the way they relate to themselves and others. Thoughtful and highly engaging, Food for Thought provides invaluable methods for practitioners treating patients with eating disorders to achieve lasting change and true healing.

Leipzig als Wiege der akademischen Psychiatrie ...

Wussten Sie, dass der Ursprung der zwei Jahrhunderte umfassenden Entwicklung der akademischen Psychiatrie nicht etwa in Paris, in Berlin oder Edinburgh liegt, sondern in Leipzig?

Dort wurde als erster Lehrer fur ein seelenheilkundliches Fach an einer Universitat im Jahre 1811 Heinroth berufen. Damit beginnt nichts weniger als die Geschichte der akademischen Psychiatrie des Abendlandes.

Schwerpunktmassig werden hier Personen und Konzepte des 19. Jahrhunderts in ihrer konkreten lebens- und wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Verortung beschrieben: biografisch, lokal und disziplingeschichtlich. So entstehen Portrats ganz eigener Art: von Menschen, einer Stadt und ihrer Universitat, eines Faches in bestimmten historischen Epochenabschnitten. "

Historically, there has been little integration of theoretical or applied research on addiction treatment and parenting intervention development. Rather, the fields of addiction and developmental research have progressed on largely separate trajectories, even though their focus powerfully and often tragically intersects each time a parent is diagnosed with a substance use disorder. Parenting and Substance Abuse is the first book to report on pioneering efforts to move the treatment of substance-abusing parents forward by embracing their roles and experiences as mothers and fathers directly and continually across the course of treatment. The chapters in this volume represent important new strides among researchers and clinicians to address and close the increasingly recognizable gap between addiction and developmental science. Chapters focus on current, state-of-the-art treatment models for parents, primarily pregnant and parenting women, including descriptions of innovative treatments currently being developed and evaluated that focus on parental addiction and the parent-child relationship within a developmental framework. Part I covers the theoretical understandings of how addiction impacts the developmental processes of parenting. Part II discusses risk assessment, evaluation, and a variety of interventions and therapies. This unique volume will be of importance to clinicians, researchers, students, and trainees in the health professions who develop, implement, and evaluate interventions for parental addiction, including in well-baby clinics, primary care settings, pediatric clinics, and residential and outpatient drug treatment programs.

An essential collection on leading psychoanalyses of narcissism Narcissism has recently been the focus of debate among professionals, in large part due to the controversies surrounding the world of Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg. Yet much has been written about narcissism throughout the history of psychoanalysis and this carefully selected collection brings together the essential work on narcissism. The book first puts forth the major theoretical formulations - self-psychology, object relations, psychodynamics - and then explores diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The book offers landmark classic and contemporary contributions by authors such as Annie Reich, Heinz Kohut, Otto Kernberg, Alice Miller, Arnold Modell, and many others.

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing
Trauma is a fact of life. One in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence; veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children.
Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades studying trauma. In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain's wiring--specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments . . . including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies. Based on Dr. van der Kolk's own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score offers proven alternatives to drugs and talk therapy--and a way to reclaim lives.

'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Robert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated figures from Samuel Johnson to Jorge Luis Borges since the seventeenth century, and remains an incomparable examination of the human condition in all its flawed, endless variety. Edited with an introduction by Angus Gowland

Groundbreaking and comprehensive, "Driven to Distraction "has been a lifeline to the approximately eighteen million Americans who are thought to have ADHD. Now the bestselling book is revised and updated with current medical information for a new generation searching for answers.
Through vivid stories and case histories of patients--both adults and children--Hallowell and Ratey explore the varied forms ADHD takes, from hyperactivity to daydreaming. They dispel common myths, offer helpful coping tools, and give a thorough accounting of all treatment options as well as tips for dealing with a diagnosed child, partner, or family member. But most importantly, they focus on the positives that can come with this "disorder"--including high energy, intuitiveness, creativity, and enthusiasm.

For the past twenty years, pioneering psychologist Stephen Joseph has worked with survivors of trauma. His studies have yielded a startling discovery: that a wide range of traumatic events--from illness, divorce, separation, assault, and bereavement to accidents, natural disasters, and terrorism--can act as catalysts for positive change. Boldly challenging the conventional wisdom about trauma and its aftermath, Joseph demonstrates that rather than ruining one's life, a traumatic event can actually improve it.

Drawing on the wisdom of ancient philosophers, the insights of evolutionary biologists, and the optimism of positive psychologists, "What Doesn't Kill Us" reveals how all of us can navigate change and adversity-- traumatic or otherwise--to find new meaning, purpose, and direction in life.