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Female psychopaths are rarely diagnosed. If they have children, they tend to exert total control, violently and manipulatively, although outside the family they appear normal. Spouses rarely dare to confront a partner who turns demonic if questioned. She fights until her false accusations are accepted. In this insightful and highly unusual autoethnographic study, the author, a qualified and licenced psychologist, explores her own and her mother’s unique story, and the psycho-social heritage from previous generations. The author explains the dissociative quality of the mother-daughter relation: one idealised; one terrorising. She illustrates how her brother carried the symptoms: anxious, ob...
The Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis explores and clarifies the challenge of defining what hypnosis is and how best to integrate it into treatment. It contains state-of-the-art neuroscience, cutting-edge practice, and future-oriented visions of clinical hypnosis integrated into all aspects of health and clinical care. Chapters gather current research, theories, and applications in order to view clinical hypnosis through the lens of neurobiological plasticity and reveal the central role of hypnosis in health care. This handbook catalogs the utility of clinical hypnosis as a biopsychosocial intervention amid a broad range of treatment modalities and contexts. It features c...
50th Anniversary Edition The cornerstone text in the field for 50 years, Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry has consistently kept pace with the rapid growth of research and knowledge in neural science, as well as biological and psychological science. This two-volume Tenth Edition shares the expertise of over 600 renowned contributors who cover the full range of psychiatry and mental health, including neural science, genetics, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, and other key areas. It remains the gold standard of reference for all those who work with the mentally ill, including psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric nurses, and other mental health professionals.
The gold standard reference for all those who work with people with mental illness, Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, edited by Drs. Robert Boland and Marcia L. Verduin, has consistently kept pace with the rapid growth of research and knowledge in neural science, as well as biological and psychological science. This two-volume eleventh edition offers the expertise of more than 600 renowned contributors who cover the full range of psychiatry and mental health, including neural science, genetics, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, and other key areas.
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Als Saras Vater bei einem rätselhaften Brand zu Tode kommt, zieht sie von der schwedischen Kleinstadt Örebro nach Stockholm. Dort läuft zunächst alles glatt für die 25 Jährige: Aus ihrem Job als Kellnerin wird eine Anstellung bei einer angesehenen PR-Agentur, und von der schäbigen Vorortwohnung geht es in ein luxuriöses Apartment im Nobelstadtteil Östermalm. Sara ist glücklich, dass sich in ihrem Leben endlich alles zum Guten gewendet hat. Doch schon bald muss Sara erkennen, dass nichts so ist, wie es scheint. Beängstigende Dinge geschehen, für die sie keine Erklärung findet. Immer größer wird ihr Misstrauen gegenüber ihrem Umfeld, bis sie schließlich an ihrem eigenen Versta...
La primera entrega de la «Trilogía de la Resistencia» es un impactante thriller que pone al descubierto las zonas más oscuras de un poder capaz de manipular la realidad y para el que la verdad es la peor de las amenazas. Sara ha decidido dejar su hogar para comenzar una nueva vida en Estocolmo y tratar de olvidar el último año de su vida. No solo sufrió un salvaje ataque a manos de un desconocido camino de la fiesta de una amiga, sino que su padre murió en un incendio en circunstancias no aclaradas. Recién llegada a Estocolmo, Sara conoce a Bella, quien le ofrece trabajo inmediatamente en una de las agencias de relaciones públicas más importantes de la capital. También conoce a M...
This book provides a guide for health professionals concerned about communicating more effectively with patients as well as their families and colleagues. People in many life situations, either waiting for a diagnosis, during delivering a child, being hospitalized due to some life threatening medical condition, are almost always highly susceptible to suggestions. These people seem like as if they were hypnotized without any formal hypnosis. The very same suggestive techniques can be applied to them that are used in hypnosis, utilizing their highly susceptible state. This new book demonstrates the power of our words and to improve the readers' skills in minimizing harmful effects and maximizing beneficial effects of communication with people in medical settings.