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Research evidence concerning the precursors (a sign or symptom that heralds another) and prodromes (an early or premonitory symptom of a disease) of the various mental disorders is growing but is at present widely dispersed and inaccessible. Clinicians have to rely on their own experience, which is often limited, when faced with several delicate diagnostic and treatment issues. This book aims to approach for the first time in a comprehensive way this emerging area of clinical psychiatry. The World Health Organisation has found that mental disorders such as depression and psychosis rank in the top 10 of leading causes of disability in the world, creating a significant social, emotional and ec...
This essential provides an overview of the diagnosis, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment of all sexual disorders according to the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM-5). Among the sexual dysfunctions, delayed ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, female orgasm disorder, female sexual interest/arousal disorder, genito-pelvic pain-penetration disorder, male diminished sexual appetence disorder, and premature (early) ejaculation are explained. Of the various paraphilias, voyeuristic disorder, exhibitionist disorder, frotteuristic disorder, sexually masochistic disorder, sexually sadistic disorder, pedophilic disorder, transvestic disorder, and fetishistic disorder are exp...
Since the beginning of the 20th Century, phenomenology has developed a distinction between lived body (Leib) and physical body (Koerper), a distinction well known as body-subject vs. body-object (Hanna and Thompson 2007). The lived body is the body experienced from within - my own direct experience of my body lived in the first-person perspective, myself as a spatiotemporal embodied agent in the world. The physical body on the other hand, is the body thematically investigated from a third person perspective by natural sciences as anatomy and physiology. An active topic affecting the understanding of several psychopathological disorders is the relatively unknown dynamic existing between aspec...
Why our approaches to Alzheimer's and dementia are problematic and contradictory Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or halt Alzheimer’s disease through early detection of pre-symptomatic biological changes in healthy individuals. Based on a meticulous account of the history of Alzheimer’s disease and extensive in-depth interviews, Margaret Lock highlights the limitations and the dissent associated with biomarker detection. Lock argues that basic research must continue, but should be complemented by a public health approach to prevention that is economically feasible, more humane, and much more effective globally than one exclusively focused on an increasingly harried search for a cure.
Suicide Prevention: A Holistic Approach contains the selected and edited papers that were presented during the congress Suicide, Disease, Disadvantage, A Holistic Approach, organized by the International Association for Suicide Prevention, which was held in June 1995, in Venice. Suicide prevention is still sadly neglected by governments and public health authorities, despite the fact that in several Western countries suicide has become the primary cause of death among younger age groups. The selected papers express the need for a holistic viewpoint in suicide management. The subjects range from parasuicide to the role of the media, from the special type of psychotherapeutic approach required to the most recent guidelines in pharmacological treatment, from a homage to the memory of Erwin Ringel to the presentation of specific national prevention schemes. The book will be of interest to public health workers, doctors, psychologists and social workers, as well as voluntary staff and their organizations, and to all those who make suicide prevention one of their primary interests.
A common feature of many psychopathological states (going from anxiety, depression to schizophrenia or addictions) is to show cognitive alterations. These cognitive deficits clearly impact on the onset of clinical symptoms. Therefore, recent studies showed that increasing cognitive skills have a positive effect on patients' quality of life, and decrease the severity of clinical symptoms. However, a main problem consists in the fact that some minor cognitive restrictions, even if not observable at the behavioral level, may induce a state of "vulnerability" that can, in some circumstances, lead the patients to relapse. For instance, in alcohol dependence, it is well-known that, despite detoxif...
Psychisch Störungen stellen die drittgrößte Diagnosegruppe (nach Krankheiten des Muskel-/Skelettsystems/Bindegewebes und Tumorerkrankung) bei der Gewährung von medizinisch rehabilitativen Leistungen dar. Die ambulante rehabilitative Versorgung gewinnt im Rahmen des DRG-Systems zunehmend an Bedeutung, wenn Behandlungen aus der Akutmedizin in die Rehabilitation verlagert werden. Welche ambulanten rehabilitativen Leistungen zukünftig von den Kassen übernommen werden sollen und welche Richtlinien Anbieter für diese Leistungen erfüllen müssen, wird derzeit verhandelt. Dieses Standardwerk bietet eine systematische Zusammenschau der rehabilitativen Behandlungsmethoden in der stationären u...