Promoting Self-Change From Addictive Behaviors

Promoting Self-Change From Addictive Behaviors-1

Edited by Harald Klingemann Linda Carter Sobell 2007 Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention, and Treatment The literature clearly shows that many individuals with addictive behaviors overcome their problems without professional treatment or self-help groups. Research into the self-change process for many years was impeded by the disease concept that has long dominated the addiction field.

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Hearing Visions and Seeing Voices

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Edited by Gerrit Glas Moshe Halevi Spero Peter J. Verhagen Herman M. van Praag 2007 Psychological Aspects of Biblical Concepts and Personalities The chapters in this book are based on papers that were presented at the international conference Psychological Aspects of Biblical Concepts and Persons, 4–6 March 2002 in Amsterdam. The conference was organized by the Dutch Foundation […]

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Handbook of Obesity Prevention

Handbook of Obesity Prevention-1

Shiriki Kumanyika Ross C. Brownson Editors 2007 A Resource for Health Professionals The statistics are alarming. Over the past decades we have watched the weight levels of the U.S. population shift steadily upward. Media coverage of obesity conveys a continuing sense of crisis—for the population at large, especially children and youth, and for the health care system.

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Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry-1

Hoyle Leigh and Jon Streltzer 2007 This Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry is intended for psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, primary care physicians, medical students, and all members of the health care professions who are interested in psychiatric approaches to patients in medical settings. The practice of consultation-liaison psychiatry must be practical and flexible.

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The GABA Receptors

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Edited by S. J. Enna and Hanns Möhler 2007 This volume is the third edition of a monograph series that was first published in 1983. The demand for this work is a testament to the impact of studies on γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors on the basic understanding of synaptic transmission and on defining the clinical […]

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Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities-1

Edited by John W. Jacobson James A. Mulick Johannes Rojahn 2007 This book is intended for use by graduate students, practitioners in clinical disciplines or management roles in developmental disabilities services and education, university faculty, and to a considerably lesser degree, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, parents, attorneys, and advocacy groups. Faculty will find this book useful as a […]

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Representation and Brain

Representation and Brain-1

S. Funahashi (Ed.) 2007 In our daily life, we perceive a variety of stimuli from the environment. However, among these, only a few selected stimuli are further processed in our brain. These selected stimuli are processed and integrated together with the information stored in long-term memory to generate an appropriate behavior.

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THE ROSETTA STONE OF THE HUMAN MIND

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Vincenzo R. Sanguineti 2007 Three languages to integrate neurobiology and psychology I met Vincenzo Sanguineti at a crucial point of my career, when, after 20 years of involvement in biological research applied to psychiatric disorders, I started to feel the emptiness and aridity of biological explanations that, besides the evidence of being incomplete and rough, lack, as Mandell […]

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