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Seventeen contributors, leading clinicians studying the effects and uses of light treatment, discuss the impact of light and light therapy on such conditions as SAD, premenstrual depression, circadian phase sleep disorders, jet lag, shift work disorders, insomnia, and behavioral disturbances.
How's Your Marriage? explains how you can detect the warning signs of possible marital woe and the steps you can take to resolve these problems at their source. To allay the anxiety regarding marital therapy, Dr. Myers discusses this topic in great detail. He describes the different therapeutic techniques and the types of therapists who use them.
Facts and Feelings-A Handbook for Women and the People Who Care About Them
Abortion: Facts and Feelings is for women who are considering whether or not to have an abortion, women who have had an abortion and want to do more thinking about it, and relatives, mates, lovers, friends, and health professionals who want to help the women they care for make the best possible choices for themselves.
The Sword of Laban examines the Mormon prophet's enigmatic life in light of current understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder and the dissociation that accompanies it. Dr. Morain traces the repetitive patterns of behavior and fantasies of Smith's adult life.
Melatonin in Psychiatric and Neoplastic Disorders provides psychiatrists, oncologists, endocrinologists, pediatricians, and other health professionals with a thorough examination of the most current research on the role of melatonin in psychiatric and neoplastic disorders.
This is a spellbinding invitation into the world of the human mind that will change our perceptions of mental illness. Despite the growing body of scientific discoveries into the nature of the human mind, the stigma attached to mental illness remains deeply entrenched in the general public's consciousness, the product of inaccurate information.
This volume addresses subjects at the forefront of the study of narcissism, including cognitive treatment, normal narcissism, pathological narcissims and suicide, and the connection between pathological narcissism, trauma, and alexithymia.
