Psycho Politics/Critical Psychiatry: The Politics of Mental Health (Book).

The Impact of Audio Book on the Elderly Mental Health

Introduction: The growing elderly population calls mental health professionals to take measures concerning the treatment of the elderly mental disorders. Today in developed countries, bibliotherapy is used for the treatment of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of audio book on the elderly mental health of Retirement Center of Shahid...

Book Reviews Women’s Mental Health

For clinicians considering electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and psychotropic drug treatment, the information on physiologic changes in drug metabolism and potential teratogenicity during pregnancy and lactation is both vital and humbling. Adolescent pregnancy is discussed in a developmental framework, with particular attention to the group at the highest risk for abuse, promiscuity, addictions, ...

Mental Health Book Review Index

Psycho-Analysis and Child Psychiatry

The publisher's "blurb" claims that Dr. Glover's 12,000 word monograph is an attempt at a systematic classification of the mental disorders of children. "The concepts of 'psycho-somatic disease' and of 'child-psychosis'" the "blurb" continues hopefully, "are examined in some detail and their place in a hierarchy of pathological formations clarified." We are also told that the scope and limitati...

Text-Book of Psychiatry

example, in the fight to the death which the wild mother will make for her offspring. The body of the book consists of two parts, the first on general, the second on special psychiatiy. In the former, the chief part is occupied by general symptomatology, considered under ten heads; thereafter follow the etiology and course, the anatomy, diagnosis, prognosis, and general treatment of mental dise...