Product Description: Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation, this volume celebrates the creativity and dedication of Canadian scientists who have helped unravel some of the mysteries of the mind over recent years...read more

Product Description: Women's Mental Health: A Life-Cycle Approach brings together the latest research and clinical information on the wide variety of psychiatric problems that affect women in unique ways. The book is organized around the female life cycle--childhood, adolescence, adulthood, reproduction, and aging--and addresses specific disorders as they present at each stage...read more

Product Description: It is indisputable that mental illness in a parent has serious and often adverse effects on the child, a fact which is surprisingly unreflected in clinical service provision. An international, multidisciplinary team of professionals reviews the most up-to-date treatment interventions from a practical, clinical point of view in this completely rewritten new edition, It will be essential reading for all professionals dealing with adult mental illness and child-care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Gender and Psychopathology explores the gender differences in psychiatric syndromes in terms of symptoms, courses of illness, epidemiology, and treatment responses. The book addresses the reasons for the differences from many competing and additive points of view by distinguished multidisciplinary contributors...read more

Product Description: This work is designed to help anyone involved with schizophrenia, directly, personally or professionally. It aims to help to minimize the devastating effects of scizophrenia and points out the pitfalls that patients and their families can encounter...read more

Product Description: The aim of this book is to present the clinician in office practice with a greater understanding of the condition and a variety of strategies for treating it. The book lays particular stress on group and family therapy as means of providing patients with support to mitigate relapses...read more

Outlines the symptoms of schizophrenia and offers practical guidance for schizophrenics and their families and friends on the treatment of the disease