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This book serves as an up-to-date Rorschach primer and elaborates
on the various applications of Rorschach assessment for adolescents
with respect to differential diagnosis, forensic consultation, and
therapeutic assessment. It opens with three chapters that provide
readers with a basic overview and introduction to the topics
integrated throughout the text. The first reviews the development
and foundations of the Rorschach Inkblot Method; the second
discusses key issues in the assessment of adolescents, with
particular attention to differentiating patterns of psychopathology
from normal developmental variations; and the third presents
general considerations in using performance-based assessment
instruments in the assessment of personality functioning in
adolescence. Later chapters explore the current status of the
Rorschach Inkblot Method with respect to theoretical formulations,
research findings, and practice guidelines. The final chapter draws
on information in the preceding chapters to present a model for
Rorschach assessment of adolescents. This model is designed to
facilitate accurate and useful formulations of personality
functioning that contribute substantially to advancing responsible
adolescent development.
This book is the first to provide both a broad overview of the
current methodologies being applied to drug design and in-depth
analyses of progress in specific fields. It details
state-of-the-art approaches to pharmaceutical development currently
used by some of the world's foremost laboratories. The book
features contributors from a variety of fields, new techniques,
previously unpublished data, and extensive reference lists.
Psychodiagnosis in Schizophrenia is a reprint of a classic volume
in assessment psychology that first appeared in 1966. The book
concerns the use of psychodiagnostic techniques in the differential
diagnosis of schizophrenia. The author first presents a conceptual
analysis of schizophrenic disturbance in terms of impaired ego
functioning and extrapolates from schizophrenic ego impairments to
psychodiagnostic indices that have been demonstrated to assess
them. In particular, Weiner refers to the Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Scale, the Rorschach Inkblot Method, and the
Draw-A-Person test. Clinical and research data delineating the
nature of psychological deficits in schizophrenia are reviewed, and
practical guidelines for the clinical assessment of these deficits
are presented. The author next considers several differential
diagnostic possibilities frequently considered in the evaluation of
schizophrenic persons, with separate chapters devoted to the many
forms of schizophrenia, such as: acute, chronic, paranoid,
nonparanoid, incipient, remitting, borderline and pseudoneurotic.
There are also chapters that focus on schizoaffective disorder and
adolescent schizophrenia. The conceptual and empirical
contributions to these distinctions are reviewed; accordingly, the
differentiating characteristics of these subcategories are related
to parameters of psychodiagnostic test performance. In additon, the
process of differential psychodiagnosis in schizophrenia is
illustrated by detailed case studies. In an extended new preface,
the author comments on current perspectives and contemporary
literature related to the individual chapters of the text.
Investigation into basic and advanced peptide design, synthesis,
evaluation and utilization. New therapeutic approaches from
experimental systems.
Psychodiagnosis in Schizophrenia is a reprint of a classic volume
in assessment psychology that first appeared in 1966. The book
concerns the use of psychodiagnostic techniques in the differential
diagnosis of schizophrenia. The author first presents a conceptual
analysis of schizophrenic disturbance in terms of impaired ego
functioning and extrapolates from schizophrenic ego impairments to
psychodiagnostic indices that have been demonstrated to assess
them. In particular, Weiner refers to the Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Scale, the Rorschach Inkblot Method, and the
Draw-A-Person test. Clinical and research data delineating the
nature of psychological deficits in schizophrenia are reviewed, and
practical guidelines for the clinical assessment of these deficits
are presented.
The author next considers several differential diagnostic
possibilities frequently considered in the evaluation of
schizophrenic persons, with separate chapters devoted to the many
forms of schizophrenia, such as: acute, chronic, paranoid,
nonparanoid, incipient, remitting, borderline and pseudoneurotic.
There are also chapters that focus on schizoaffective disorder and
adolescent schizophrenia. The conceptual and empirical
contributions to these distinctions are reviewed; accordingly, the
differentiating characteristics of these subcategories are related
to parameters of psychodiagnostic test performance. In additon, the
process of differential psychodiagnosis in schizophrenia is
illustrated by detailed case studies. In an extended new preface,
the author comments on current perspectives and contemporary
literature related to the individual chapters of the text.
This book exploits an understanding of disease pathogenesis by
applying a variety of biological agents to therapy. It provides a
broad overview of the current methodologies being applied to
biological approaches to rational drug design and in depth analyses
of progress in this specific field.
This book is the first to provide both a broad overview of the
current methodologies being applied to drug design and in-depth
analyses of progress in specific fields. It details
state-of-the-art approaches to pharmaceutical development currently
used by some of the world's foremost laboratories. The book
features contributors from a variety of fields, new techniques,
previously unpublished data, and extensive reference lists.
Inaugurates a series for scientists and clinicians on the
application of recent biotechnological methods in experimental and
clinical medicine. Focuses on the design, synthesis, and
utilization of biologically active peptides (short strings of amino
acids not large enough to warrant the term protein
This comprehensive text describes a multimethod approach to
assessing psychological and behavioral features of bipolar
spectrum disorders alongside important contextual considerations.
 It provides mental health professionals with valuable
empirical and interpretive support as they answer assessment
questions for diagnostic and decision-making purposes. Chapters are
written by assessment psychologists who are renowned for their
expertise and contributions in developing and researching specific
assessment instruments or topics. Contributors provide key
information about widely used interview methods, self-report
measures, and performance-based tests, including the MMPI-3, the
SPECTRA, the Rorschach test, and cognitive and neuropsychological
evaluations. They also review diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5-TR
and the ICD-11. Â Additional chapters review special
considerations for differential diagnosis, including comorbidity
with medical conditions, distinguishing bipolar spectrum disorders
from other disorders with similar traits, and accounting for
multicultural factors. Two in-depth case examples provide
comprehensive illustrations of the multimethod evaluation process
with an adolescent and an adult.
This book serves as an up-to-date Rorschach primer and elaborates
on the various applications of Rorschach assessment for adolescents
with respect to differential diagnosis, forensic consultation, and
therapeutic assessment. It opens with three chapters that provide
readers with a basic overview and introduction to the topics
integrated throughout the text. The first reviews the development
and foundations of the Rorschach Inkblot Method; the second
discusses key issues in the assessment of adolescents, with
particular attention to differentiating patterns of psychopathology
from normal developmental variations; and the third presents
general considerations in using performance-based assessment
instruments in the assessment of personality functioning in
adolescence. Later chapters explore the current status of the
Rorschach Inkblot Method with respect to theoretical formulations,
research findings, and practice guidelines. The final chapter draws
on information in the preceding chapters to present a model for
Rorschach assessment of adolescents. This model is designed to
facilitate accurate and useful formulations of personality
functioning that contribute substantially to advancing responsible
adolescent development.
This collection of essays by historians, historians of science and
medicine, and literary and textual scholars--from the United
States, Canada, Mexico, and Spain--analyzes the achievements of Dr.
Francisco Hernandez (1515-87) in the history of medicine and
science in Europe and the Americas. Celebrated in his own day as
one of Spain's leading physicians and naturalists, he is now best
remembered for his monumental work on the native plants and materia
medica of central Mexico.
Sent to New Spain in 1570 by King Philip II to research and
describe the natural history of the region, to assess the medical
usefulness of the natural resources, and to gather ethnographic
materials for an anthropological history, Hernandez was the first
trained scientist to undertake scientific work in the New World.
For seven years he gathered information throughout the Valley of
Mexico, learning Nahuatl, recording local medical customs, studying
indigenous medicines, and writing down all his observations. The
result was "The Natural History of New Spain," written in Latin,
which consisted of six folio volumes filled with descriptions of
over 3,000 plants previously unknown in Europe (along with
descriptions of a much smaller number of animals and minerals) and
ten folio volumes of paintings by Mexican artists illustrating the
plants and animals he described.
Hernandez died before he could publish his "Natural History," and
the materials were placed in the Escorial, where they were
extensively consulted, copied, abstracted, and translated by
generations of scientists, medical specialists, and natural
philosophers before they were destroyed by fire in 1671.
Hernandez's work was still regarded as authoritative on a number of
New World botanical topics as late as the nineteenth century, and
his writings remain in use in popular form in Mexico today.
The sixteen essays in this volume treat the most important aspects
of Hernandez's experience, including his education, his heterodox
beliefs, and the state of medicine in both Spain and New Spain
during his era. Other essays show the dissemination of the
knowledge Hernandez accumulated, including his contributions to
European botany and materia medica, his relationship to Spanish
Baroque painting, the "globalization" of his work in the eighteenth
century, and his place in nineteenth-century debates among Spanish
scientists.
Genetic / DNA immunization represents a novel approach to vaccine
and immune therapeutic development. The direct injec tion of
nucleic acid expression cassettes into a living host results in a
limited number of its cells becoming factories for production of
the introduced gene products. This host-inappropriate gene
expression has important immunological consequences, resulting in
the specific immune activation of the host against the gene
delivered antigen. The recent demonstration by a number of
laboratories that the induced immune responses are functional in
experimental models against both specific infectious diseases and
cancers is likely to have dramatic consequences for the develop
ment of a new generation of experimental vaccines and immune
therapies. This technology has the potential to enable the pro
duction of vaccines and immune-based therapies that are not only
effective immunologically but are accessible to the entire world
(rather than just to the most developed nations). Vaccine
Development Vaccination against pathogenic microorganisms
represents one of the most important advances in the history of
medicine. Vaccines, including those against polio, measles, mumps,
rubella, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, pertussis and other diseases,
have dramatically improved and protected more human lives than any
other avenue of modern medicine. The vaccine against smallpox, for
example, has been so successful that it is now widely believed that
this malicious killer, responsible for more deaths in the twentieth
century than World Wars I and II combined, has been removed from
the face of the earth.
This second edition of Irving Weiner's classic comprehensive,
clinician-friendly guide to utilizing the Rorschach for personality
description has been revised to reflect both recent modifications
in the Rorschach Comprehensive System and new evidence concerning
the soundness and utility of Rorschach assessment. It integrates
the basic ingredients of structural, thematic, behavioral, and
sequence analysis strategies into systematic guidelines for
describing personality functioning. It is divided into three parts.
Part I concerns basic considerations in Rorschach testing and deals
with conceptual and empirical foundations of the inkblot method and
with critical issues in formulating and justifying Rorschach
inferences. Part II is concerned with elements of interpretation
that contribute to thorough utilization of data in a Rorschach
protocol: the Comprehensive System search strategy; the
complementary roles of projection and card pull in determining
response characteristics; and the interpretive significance of
structural variables, content themes, test behaviors, and the
sequence in which various response characteristics occur. Each of
the chapters presents and illustrates detailed guidelines for
translating Rorschach findings into descriptions of structural and
dynamic aspects of personality functioning. The discussion
throughout emphasizes the implications of Rorschach data for
personality assets and liabilities, with specific respect to
adaptive and maladaptive features of the manner in which people
attend to their experience, use ideation, modulate affect, manage
stress, view themselves, and relate to others. Part III presents 10
case illustrations of how the interpretive principles delineated in
Part II can be used to identify assets and liabilities in
personality functioning and apply this information in clinical
practice. These cases represent persons from diverse demographic
backgrounds and demonstrate a broad range of personality styles and
clinical issues. Discussion of these cases touches on numerous
critical concerns in arriving at different diagnoses, formulating
treatment plans, and elucidating structural and dynamic
determinants of behavior.
This second edition of Irving Weiner's classic comprehensive,
clinician-friendly guide to utilizing the Rorschach for personality
description has been revised to reflect both recent modifications
in the Rorschach Comprehensive System and new evidence concerning
the soundness and utility of Rorschach assessment. It integrates
the basic ingredients of structural, thematic, behavioral, and
sequence analysis strategies into systematic guidelines for
describing personality functioning. It is divided into three parts.
Part I concerns basic considerations in Rorschach testing and deals
with conceptual and empirical foundations of the inkblot method and
with critical issues in formulating and justifying Rorschach
inferences. Part II is concerned with elements of interpretation
that contribute to thorough utilization of data in a Rorschach
protocol: the Comprehensive System search strategy; the
complementary roles of projection and card pull in determining
response characteristics; and the interpretive significance of
structural variables, content themes, test behaviors, and the
sequence in which various response characteristics occur. Each of
the chapters presents and illustrates detailed guidelines for
translating Rorschach findings into descriptions of structural and
dynamic aspects of personality functioning. The discussion
throughout emphasizes the implications of Rorschach data for
personality assets and liabilities, with specific respect to
adaptive and maladaptive features of the manner in which people
attend to their experience, use ideation, modulate affect, manage
stress, view themselves, and relate to others. Part III presents 10
case illustrations of how the interpretive principles delineated in
Part II can be used to identify assets and liabilities in
personality functioning and apply this information in clinical
practice. These cases represent persons from diverse demographic
backgrounds and demonstrate a broad range of personality styles and
clinical issues. Discussion of these cases touches on numerous
critical concerns in arriving at different diagnoses, formulating
treatment plans, and elucidating structural and dynamic
determinants of behavior.
Volume 1 of 2. Coleridge's nephew, son-in-law, and first editor,
Henry Nelson Coleridge, began at the end of 1822 a record of
Coleridge's remarks as a way of preparing an anthology of the
interests and thought of the great poet and critic. His
manuscripts, gathered to form the major text of his new edition,
include passages on relatives, friends, and various censorable
topics omitted from the Table Talk of 1835 and unpublished until
now. These two volumes also contain talk recorded by other
listeners from 1798 until Coleridge's death in 1834. Some of these
records have not been previously published; some are published from
manuscripts that differ from versions previously known. Also
included are previously unpublished remarks by Wordsworth. Along
with a bibliography of earlier editions of Table Talk and other
useful appendixes, Carl Woodring's edition reprints the second
edition (1836), which differs from the manuscripts more extensively
than the edition of 1835. THis is the first fully annotated edition
of a work that long remained more popular in the United Kingdom
than any of the works in prose published by Coleridge himself. The
two volumes make a convenient encyclopedia of his ideas and
interests. Carl Woodring is George Edward Woodberry Professor of
Literature Emeritus at Columbia University. Originally published in
1990. 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.
Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as
to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general
public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why
humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning
twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating
discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge
in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based
in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in
evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in
social, developmental, and forensic psychology.
Volume 1 of 2. Coleridge's nephew, son-in-law, and first editor,
Henry Nelson Coleridge, began at the end of 1822 a record of
Coleridge's remarks as a way of preparing an anthology of the
interests and thought of the great poet and critic. His
manuscripts, gathered to form the major text of his new edition,
include passages on relatives, friends, and various censorable
topics omitted from the Table Talk of 1835 and unpublished until
now. These two volumes also contain talk recorded by other
listeners from 1798 until Coleridge's death in 1834. Some of these
records have not been previously published; some are published from
manuscripts that differ from versions previously known. Also
included are previously unpublished remarks by Wordsworth. Along
with a bibliography of earlier editions of Table Talk and other
useful appendixes, Carl Woodring's edition reprints the second
edition (1836), which differs from the manuscripts more extensively
than the edition of 1835. THis is the first fully annotated edition
of a work that long remained more popular in the United Kingdom
than any of the works in prose published by Coleridge himself. The
two volumes make a convenient encyclopedia of his ideas and
interests. Carl Woodring is George Edward Woodberry Professor of
Literature Emeritus at Columbia University. Originally published in
1990. 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.
In The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris, Dora B.
Weiner examines the experiences of the sick and handicapped
indigent men, women, and children in Paris during the French
Revolution and Empire. Weiner argues that significant groups of
Revolutionary physicians and reformers interpreted equality to
include every citizen's right to health care. These reformers faced
political, religious, and professional opposition, and daunting
problems of funding. And they needed the participation of the poor
as "citizen-patients, " patients with both rights and duties, who
acted as responsible partners in the pursuit and maintenance of
public and personal health.
Weiner surveys the 20,000 patients institutionalized in twenty
Paris hospitals and hospices and explains how the Revolution
changed the status and work of nurses, pharmacists, midwives, and
students, as well as doctors. Clinical teaching, professional
specialization, and approaches to public health were all affected.
Weiner emphasizes health care for children, deaf and blind people,
and mentally ill patients and underscores the role of women as
administrators and dispensers of hospital care.
"Inalienable Possessions" tests anthropology's traditional
assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an
exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage
exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New
Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, Annette Weiner
investigates the category of possessions that must "not" be given
or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver.
Reciprocity, she says, is only the superficial aspect of exchange,
which overlays much more politically powerful strategies of
keeping-while-giving.The idea of keeping-while-giving places women
at the heart of the political process, however much that process
may vary in different societies, for women possess a wealth of
their own that gives them power. Power is intimately involved in
cultural reproduction, and Weiner describes the location of power
in each society, showing how the degree of control over the
production and distribution of cloth wealth coincides with women's
rank and the development of hierarchy in the community. Other
inalienable possessions, whether material objects, landed property,
ancestral myths, or sacred knowledge, bestow social identity and
rank as well. Calling attention to their presence in Western
history, Weiner points out that her formulations are not limited to
Oceania. The paradox of keeping-while-giving is a concept certain
to influence future developments in ethnography and the theoretical
study of gender and exchange.
Blogging has become a "must" for many independent and fee-only
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many advisors struggle to create a steady flow of compelling blog
posts. This isn't surprising. After all, your professional training
focused on helping clients manage their investments or finances.
You may have never taken a writing class or written for
publication. Don't worry Help has arrived. This book will help you
conquer the challenge of producing high quality blog posts by
following a step-by-step process, including how to: Generate and
refine ideas for blog posts that will engage your readers Organize
your thoughts before you write so you can write more quickly and
effectively Edit your writing so it's reader-friendly and appealing
Spread the word about your blog and attract more visitors
An examination of the moral principles and institutional
arrangements that will be needed to drive any new health care
reform inititive. Health care reform has been stalled since the
Clinton health care initiative, but the political difficulties
internal to that initiative and the ethical problems that provoked
it -- of cost, coverage, and overall fairness, for example -- have
only gotten worse. This collection examines the moral principles
that must underlie any new reform initiative and the processes of
democratic decision-making essential to successful reform. This
volume provides careful analyses that will allow the reader to
short-circuit the mythmaking, polemics, and distortions that have
too often characterized public discussion of health care reform.
Its aim is to provide the moral foundations and institutional
arrangements needed to drive any new health care initiative and so
to stimulate a reasoned discussion before the next inevitable round
of reform efforts. Foreword by Thomas H. Murray. Contributors:
HowardBrody, Norman Daniels, Theodore Marmor, Tobie H. Olsan, Uwe
E. Reinhardt, Gerd Richter, Rory B. Weiner, Lawrence W. White Wade
L. Robison is the Ezra A. Hale Professor in Applied Ethics at the
Rochester Institute of Technology and recipient of the Nelson A.
Rockefeller Prize for Social Science and Public Policy for his book
Decisions in Doubt: The Environment and Public Policy. Timothy H.
Engstroem is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of
Technology and recipient of the Eisenhart Award for Outstanding
Teaching.
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