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24 produkter
Personality Disorders
A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types
Inbunden, 2023
376 kr
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The fascinating and controversial history of personality disorders.The concept of personality disorders rose to prominence in the early twentieth century and has consistently caused controversy among psychiatrists, psychologists, and social scientists. In Personality Disorders, Allan V. Horwitz …
Between Sanity and Madness
Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era
Inbunden, 2020
865 kr
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Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era examines several perennial issues about mental illness: how different societies have distinguished mental disorders from normality; whether mental illnesses are similar to or different from organic conditions; …
PTSD
A Short History
Häftad, 2018
382 kr
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A comprehensive history of PTSD.Post-traumatic stress disorder—and its predecessor diagnoses, including soldier’s heart, railroad spine, and shell shock—was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The psychic impacts of train crashes, wars, and sexual …
Creating Mental Illness
Häftad, 2003
333 kr
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In this timely and provocative critique of modern psychiatry, Allan V. Horwitz examines current conceptions of mental illness as a disease. He argues that this notion fits only a small number of serious psychological conditions, and that most conditions currently regarded as mental illness are …
Darwin's Descendants
Evolutionary Theories of Human Behavior and Their Critics
Häftad, 2026
520 kr
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How evolution and culture have historically shaped our understanding of human behavior.Evolutionary explanations of human behavior have been perennial sources of contention ever since they originated over 150 years ago. In Darwin's Descendants, Allan V. Horwitz traces the debates that began with …
What's Normal?
Reconciling Biology and Culture
Inbunden, 2016
2509 kr
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Since the emergence of Western philosophy and science among the classical Greeks, debates have raged over the relative significance of biology and culture on an individual's behavior. Today, recent advances in genetics and biological science have pushed most scholars past the tired nature vs. …
What's Normal?
Reconciling Biology and Culture
Häftad, 2016
414 kr
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Since the emergence of Western philosophy and science among the classical Greeks, debates have raged over the relative significance of biology and culture on an individual's behavior. Today, recent advances in genetics and biological science have pushed most scholars past the tired nature vs. …
What's Normal?
Reconciling Biology and Culture
E-bok, 2016
374 kr
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Since the emergence of Western philosophy and science among the classical Greeks, debates have raged over the relative significance of biology and culture on an individual''s behavior. Today, recent advances in genetics and biological science have pushed most scholars past the tired nature vs. …
What's Normal?
Reconciling Biology and Culture
E-bok, 2016
250 kr
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Since the emergence of Western philosophy and science among the classical Greeks, debates have raged over the relative significance of biology and culture on an individual''s behavior. Today, recent advances in genetics and biological science have pushed most scholars past the tired nature vs. …
Between Sanity and Madness
Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era
E-bok, 2019
472 kr
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Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era examines several perennial issues about mental illness: how different societies have distinguished mental disorders from normality; whether mental illnesses are similar to or different from organic conditions; …
Between Sanity and Madness
Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era
E-bok, 2019
472 kr
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Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era examines several perennial issues about mental illness: how different societies have distinguished mental disorders from normality; whether mental illnesses are similar to or different from organic conditions; …
The Loss of Sadness
How psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder
Av Allan V. Horwitz, Jerome C. Wakefield
Inbunden, 2007
888 kr
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The Loss of Sadness argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, but to the way that normal human sadness has been 'pathologised' since 1980. That year saw the publication of the landmark third edition of The Diagnostic and …
Loss of Sadness
How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder
Av Jerome C. Wakefield, Allan V. Horwitz
E-bok, 2007
340 kr
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Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by …
Loss of Sadness
How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder
Av Jerome C. Wakefield, Allan V. Horwitz
E-bok, 2007
340 kr
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Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by …
The Loss of Sadness
Av Allan V. Horwitz, Jerome C. Wakefield
Häftad, 2012
638 kr
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Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by …
Creating Mental Illness
Inbunden, 2002
1002 kr
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In this critique of modern psychiatry, Allan V. Horwitz examines conceptions of mental illness as a disease. Presenting case studies in maladies, he examines the major causes and treatments of mental illness, paying special attention to the use of pharmaceuticals.
Creating Mental Illness
E-bok, 2020
722 kr
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In this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness as a disease fit only a small number of serious psychological conditions and that most conditions currently regarded as mental illness are cultural constructions, normal reactions to stressful social …
Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence
Conundrums in Modern American Medicine
Av Gerald N. Grob, Allan V. Horwitz
Häftad, 2009
481 kr
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In Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence, Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz employ historical and contemporary data and case studies, combining into one book a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions. They utilize case studies and examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, PTSD, anxiety, and …
Social Control of Mental Illness
Häftad, 2010
693 kr
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In this book Allan Horwitz views mental illness within a sociological framework of deviance and social control and evaluates communal and individualistic styles of therapeutic control. His new prologue updates the work in the context of significant changes in the American response to mental …
Anxiety
A Short History
Häftad, 2013
379 kr
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More people today report feeling anxious than ever before-even while living in relatively safe and prosperous modern societies. Almost one in five people experiences an anxiety disorder each year, and more than a quarter of the population admits to an anxiety condition at some point in their lives. …
DSM
A History of Psychiatry's Bible
Inbunden, 2021
446 kr
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The first comprehensive history of "psychiatry's bible"—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used pamphlet to an imposing and …
DSM
A History of Psychiatry's Bible
Häftad, 2027
338 kr
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The first comprehensive history of "psychiatry's bible"—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used pamphlet to an imposing and …
Tristesse ou dépression ?
Comment la psychiatrie a médicalisé nos tristesses
Av Allan V. Horwitz, Jerome C. Wakefield
E-bok, 2015
515 kr
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Quand on a fait de la tristesse une maladie… Critique du diagnostic de la dépression Ce livre dresse une critique rigoureuse de la manière dont la psychiatrie américaine a réformé, dans les années 1980, le diagnostic de la dépression. Selon les auteurs, le diagnostic actuel de la dépression est …
Den förlorade sorgsenheten : hur psykiatrin förvandlade normal sorg till en depressiv störning
Av Allan V. Horwitz, Jerome C. Wakefield
Inbunden, 2010
208 kr
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Den nutida epidemin av depressionsdiagnoser grundar sig i den psykiatriska professionens klassificering av normal sorg som onormal sjukdom. Författarna hävdar att diagnossystemet enligt DSM är bristfälligt eftersom det inte tar hänsyn till det sammanhang där symptomen uppstått och inte ger någon …
