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Since 1994, the Boston Change Process Study Group (BCPSG) has
published articles on the most fundamental of therapeutic concepts:
change. However, the BCPSG s evolving interests and points of focus
have been wide-ranging, if always thematically linked by a
connection to change. With Change in Psychotherapy: A Unifying
Paradigm, the evolution of the group s thinking and work has been
collected into a book for the first time.
The Group s initial areas of research have since been recognized
as central to psychotherapeutic thought. For example, the BCPSG has
long focused on bringing insights from the study of infancy to bear
on thinking about psychoanalytic processes. In its earliest work,
the group looked to early development as a source of inspiration
and knowledge, and as a possible way to illuminate change processes
in psychotherapy. Today, developmental researchers and
neuroscientists increasingly locate keys to psychological health
and development in the earliest interactions between mother and
infant. This book, which consists of significant papers by the
BCPSG, traces the group s contributions to psychoanalytic topics of
note, including: the location of the implicit, the creation of
meaning, the moment-by-moment clinical process, and the subjective
experience of the therapist. The book also includes new
introductions to selected chapters, which provide background on the
original intent and reception of each article. Change in
Psychotherapy presents the essential findings from an
internationally acclaimed group of analysts in a single volume for
the first time. In this, it is a truly groundbreaking work."
Computer vision and machine intelligence paradigms are prominent in
the domain of medical image applications, including computer
assisted diagnosis, image guided radiation therapy, landmark
detection, imaging genomics, and brain connectomics. Medical image
analysis and understanding are daunting tasks owing to the massive
influx of multi-modal medical image data generated during routine
clinal practice. Advanced computer vision and machine intelligence
approaches have been employed in recent years in the field of image
processing and computer vision. However, due to the unstructured
nature of medical imaging data and the volume of data produced
during routine clinical processes, the applicability of these
meta-heuristic algorithms remains to be investigated. Advanced
Machine Vision Paradigms for Medical Image Analysis presents an
overview of how medical imaging data can be analyzed to provide
better diagnosis and treatment of disease. Computer vision
techniques can explore texture, shape, contour and prior knowledge
along with contextual information, from image sequence and 3D/4D
information which helps with better human understanding. Many
powerful tools have been developed through image segmentation,
machine learning, pattern classification, tracking, and
reconstruction to surface much needed quantitative information not
easily available through the analysis of trained human specialists.
The aim of the book is for medical imaging professionals to acquire
and interpret the data, and for computer vision professionals to
learn how to provide enhanced medical information by using computer
vision techniques. The ultimate objective is to benefit patients
without adding to already high healthcare costs.
Alginates in Drug Delivery explores the vital precepts, basic and
fundamental aspects of alginates in pharmaceutical sciences,
biopharmacology, and in the biotechnology industry. The use of
natural polymers in healthcare applications over synthetic polymers
is becoming more prevalent due to natural polymers'
biocompatibility, biodegradability, economic extraction and ready
availability. To fully utilize and harness the potential of
alginates, this book presents a thorough understanding of the
synthesis, purification, and characterization of alginates and
their derivative. This book collects, in a single volume, all
relevant information on alginates in health care, including recent
advances in the field. This is a highly useful resource for
pharmaceutical scientists, health care professionals and regulatory
scientists actively involved in the pharmaceutical product and
process development of natural polymer containing drug delivery, as
well as postgraduate students and postdoctoral research fellows in
pharmaceutical sciences.
Fighting the Opioid Epidemic: The Role of Providers and the
Clinical Laboratory in Understanding Who Is Vulnerable covers the
important aspects that are essential in fighting the opioid
epidemic. This succinct reference highlights how the toxicology
laboratory can play a vital role in fighting the opioid epidemic by
implementing a robust system for drugs of abuse testing as well as
drug testing in pain management patients. It targets health care
professionals in a technical manner, discussing polymorphisms of
important genes that may be associated with increased vulnerability
of alcohol and drug addiction to an individual.
Immunopathology, Volume 107 in the Advances in Virus Research
series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume
presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an
international board of authors. Viral Immunopathology will cover
how the immune system, innate or adaptive, is often at the root of
viral pathogenesis. This is true in diverse host systems including
vertebrates, plants and insects. This volume will present the
latest findings in this interesting and important area of research,
and will include human, plant, fish, and insect viruses. Different
kingdoms have evolved very diverse immune responses to virus
infection but the common theme - namely, that effects of viruses on
host immune systems can condition the induction of viral disease -
will unify this concept across kingdoms.
Critiquing the Psychiatric Model is the first Volume of the Ethics
International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry
Series. Understanding the current systems of psychology and
psychiatry is profoundly important. So is exploring alternatives.
The Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series presents
solicited chapters from international experts on a wide variety of
underexplored subjects. This is a series for mental health
researchers, teachers, and practitioners, for parents and
interested lay readers, and for anyone trying to make sense of
anxiety, depression, and other emotional difficulties. Critiquing
the Psychiatric Model sets out to present a clear picture of the
current "mental disorder paradigm," one that claims an ability to
"diagnose and treat mental disorders" and that provides
"medication" as its primary treatment. Critiquing the Psychiatric
Model traces the history of the psychiatric model and its
"diagnostic manual" and identifies its flaws and problem areas by
presenting more than twenty solicited chapters from experts
worldwide.
A vast majority of the world's population lacks access to essential
medicines and the provision of safe healthcare services. Medicinal
plants and herbal medicines can be applied for pharmacognosy, or
the discovery of new drugs, or as an aid for plant physiology
studies. In recent years, there has been increased interest in the
search for new chemical entities and the expression of resistance
of many drugs available in the market has led to a shift in
paradigm towards medicinal research. Herbal treatments, the most
popular form of folk medicine, may become an important way of
increasing access to healthcare services. Handbook of Research on
Pharmacological Uses of Medicinal Plants and Natural Products
provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical
aspects of drug discovery from natural sources that allow for the
effective treatment of human health problems without any side
effects, toxicity, or drug resistance. Featuring coverage on a
broad range of topics such as ethnobotany, therapeutic
applications, and bioactive compounds, this book is ideally
designed for pharmacologists, scientists, ethnobotanists,
botanists, health researchers, professors, industry professionals,
and health students in fields that include pharmaceutical drug
development and discovery.
Navigating Life Transitions for Meaning explores the central human
motivation of meaning making, and its counterpart, meaning
disruption. The book describes different types of specific
transitions, details how specific transitions affect an individual
differently, and provides appropriate clinical approaches. The book
examines the effects of life transitions on the component parts of
meaning in life, including making sense (coherence), driving life
goals (purpose), significance (mattering), and continuity. The book
covers a range of transitions, including developmental (e.g.,
adolescence to adulthood), personal (e.g., illness onset, becoming
a parent, and bereavement), and career (e.g., military deployment,
downshifting, and retiring). Life transitions are experienced by
all persons, and the influence of those transitions are tremendous.
It is essential for clinicians to understand how transitions can
disrupt life and how to help clients successfully navigate these
changes.
Whether called black sheep, sociopaths, felons, con men, or
misfits, some break all the rules. They shirk responsibilities,
abuse drugs and alcohol, take up criminal careers, and lash out at
family members. In the worst cases they commit rape, murder, and
other violent acts as though they lack a conscience. What makes
these people behave the way they do? Bad Boys, Bad Men examines
antisocial personality disorders, or ASPD, the mysterious and
misunderstood mental condition that underlies a lifelong penchant
for bad behavior. Black interweaves scientific data with stories
drawn from his own work as a psychiatrist, current events, new
research, and real-world case studies to explore antisocial
behavior in men and to chart the history, nature, and treatment of
a misunderstood disorder affecting nearly seven million Americans.
Citing new evidence from genetics and neuroscience, Black argues
that this condition is tied to biological causes, and that some
people are simply born bad. The newly revised edition includes up
to date information on the epidemiology, risk factors,
pathophysiology, natural history, genetics, and treatment of ASPD.
Black discusses the antisocial woman as well as narcissistic
personality disorder, both of which often intertwine with ASPD. New
vignettes demonstrating sociopathic and psychopathic behavior
include Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Robert
Durst, and Anna Sorkin. Examining compelling cases that read like
medical detective stories, Black separates the lies these men tell
from the facts that their lives reveal. His book not only describes
the warning signs that predict which troubled children are more
likely to become dangerous adults, but also details the progress
toward treatment for ASPD. Written to help patients and family
members, Bad Boys, Bad Men is essential reading for anyone
interested in understanding antisocial and psychopathic behavior.
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