This book is a practical introductory guide for graduate students and novice psychotherapists in clinical and counseling psychology. It provides guidance on how to diagnose mental disorders using the DSM-5-TR and addresses current issues and controversies in diagnosis. The book also contains detailed guides on how to treat clients with common mental disorders, including depression, anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive...

Prepare to embark on an extraordinary voyage into the enigmatic depths of the human psyche with "Unseen Minds: A Journey into Rare Mental Disorders." In this captivating and illuminating exploration, we delve beyond the familiar terrain of common mental health conditions to unravel the mysteries of the rare, the unusual, and the profoundly fascinating.This meticulously crafted book unveils a hidden world where the boundaries of reality blur, and perception...

Giving neurotics everywhere something to worry about, The Paranoid's Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On profiles more than 40 of the most outrageous and yet eerily familiar psychological disorders-a fascinating array of obsessions, compulsions, phobias, fixations, and full-blown mental maladies. Every disorder is well documented, including common symptoms, causes, and treatment options, along with a handy quiz for easy self-diagnosis....

In this exposé of the psychiatric profession's bible, the DSM, psychotherapist Gary Greenberg argues that the process by which mental disorders are invented and uninvented is flawed, and that increasing numbers of therapy patients are being declared mentally ill and prescribed sometimes unnecessary or harmful medications.--From publisher description.

"In... The Disordered Mind, Kandel draws on a lifetime of pathbreaking research and the work of many other leading neuroscientists to take us on an unusual tour of the brain. He confronts one of the most difficult questions we face: How does our mind, our individual sense of self, emerge from the physical matter of the brain? The brain's 86 billion neurons communicate with one another through very precise connections. But sometimes those connections...

Most of us know someone who suffers from a mental illness. This book helps those who may be struggling with mental health problems, as well as those who want to help others achieve mental health and well-being. Based on the latest, fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders known as DSM-Understanding Mental Disorders provides valuable insight on what to expect from an illness and its treatment and will help readers...

From the publisher. This new edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders, is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health. Their dedication and hard work have yielded an authoritative volume that defines and classifies mental disorders in...

This volume examines what anxiety disorder is, what causes it, what it is like to live with it, and how or whether it can be treated or cured. Anxiety disorders are a category of mental disorders characterized by feelings of anxiety and fear, where anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events. These feelings may cause physical symptoms, such as a racing heart and shakiness.