topic:"Mentally Ill Persons - psychology" found 12 records - Provincial Hospitals Library Catalogue

An Experiential Approach to Psychopathology : What is it like to Suffer from Mental Disorders?

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Giovanni Stanghellini, Massimiliano Aragona, editors. --Cham: Springer , c2016.

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This book introduces the reader to a clear and consistent method for in-depth exploration of subjective psychopathological experiences with the aim of helping to restore the ability within psychiatry and clinical psychology to draw qualitative distinctions between mental symptoms that are only apparently similar, thereby promoting a more precise characterization of experiential phenotypes. A wide range of mental disorders are considered in the book, each portrayed by a distinguished clinician. …

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Other Authors: Stanghellini, Giovanni; Aragona, Massimiliano

Responsibility: Giovanni Stanghellini, Massimiliano Aragona, editors

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2016

Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 383 p. : 7 illus., 3 illus. in color)

ISBN: 9783319299457; 9783319299433 (print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Mental Disorders - psychology; Mentally Ill Persons - psychology; Psychopathology - methods; Psychopathology - trends

Abstract: This book introduces the reader to a clear and consistent method for in-depth exploration of subjective psychopathological experiences with the aim of helping to restore the ability within psychiatry and clinical psychology to draw qualitative distinctions between mental symptoms that are only apparently similar, thereby promoting a more precise characterization of experiential phenotypes. A wide range of mental disorders are considered in the book, each portrayed by a distinguished clinician. Each chapter begins with the description of a paradigmatic case study in order to introduce the reader directly to the patient's lived world. The first-person perspective of the patient is the principal focus of attention. The essential, defining features of each psychopathological phenomenon and the meaning that the patient attaches to it are carefully analyzed in order to "make sense" of the patient's apparently nonsensical experiences. In the second part of each chapter, the case study is discussed within the context of relevant literature and a detailed picture of the state of the art concerning the psychopathological understanding of the phenomenon at issue is provided. An Experiential Approach to Psychopathology, and the method it proposes, may be considered the result of convergence of classic phenomenological psychopathological concepts and updated clinical insights into patients' lived experiences. It endorses three key principles: subjective phenomena are the quintessential feature of mental disorders; their qualitative study is mandatory; phenomenology has developed a rigorous method to grasp "what it is like" to be a person experiencing psychopathological phenomena. While the book is highly relevant for expert clinical phenomenologists, it is written in a way that will be readily understandable for trainees and young clinicians.

Contents: 1. Phenomenological Psychopathology: Toward a Person-Centered Hermeneutic Approach in the Clinical Encounter -- 2. Phenomenological Investigation of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- 3. The Window and the Wound: Dysphoria and Anger in Borderline Disorders -- 4. Gender Dysphoria -- 5. An Experiential Approach to Dissociative Phenomena -- 6. Varieties of Mind-Body Disunity -- 7. Anorexia Nervosa: Historical, Clinical, Biographical, and Phenomenological Considerations -- 8. Alcohol-Induced Psychotic Disorders -- 9. “Synthetic Psychosis” by Novel Psychoactive Substances: A Psychopathological Understanding of a Clinical Case -- 10. Melancholia from the Perspective of the Self -- 11. The Phenomenological Approach to Patients with Bizarreness -- 13. Perplexity -- 14. Self-Disorders in Schizophrenia -- 15. Autism in Schizophrenia: A Phenomenological Study -- 16. Hallucination -- 17. Fear and Trembling: A Case Study of Voice Hearing in Schizophrenia as a Self-Disorder -- 18. Catatonia—Phenomenology, Psychopathology, and Pathophysiology -- 19. Painful Affect in the Experience and Treatment of Schizophrenia -- 20. Phenomenological Psychopathology and Care. From Person-Centered Dialectical Psychopathology to the PHD Method for Psychotherapy.

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Location: Online

Behavioral Health Disability : Innovations in Prevention and Management

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edited by Pamela A. Warren. --New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media , c2011.

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Author: Warren, Pamela A

Responsibility: edited by Pamela A. Warren

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media

Date of Publication: c2011

ISBN: 9780387098142

Subjects (MeSH): Disability Evaluation; Mental Disorders - prevention & control; Mental Health Services; Mentally Ill Persons - psychology

Subjects (LCSH): Psychiatry; Psychology, clinical

Format: e-Book

Location: Online

The Hillside diary and other writings

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by Robert Gary Neugeboren ; edited and with an introduction by Jay Neugeboren. --Boston, MA: Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University , c2004.

Call Number: WM 105 N484h 2004

Location: Nova Scotia Hospital

Call Number: WM 105 N484h 2004

Author: Neugeboren, Robert

Other Authors: Neugeboren, Jay

Other Authors: Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Responsibility: by Robert Gary Neugeboren ; edited and with an introduction by Jay Neugeboren

Place of Publication: Boston, MA

Publisher: Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University

Date of Publication: c2004

Physical Description: 200 p. : ill., ports.

ISBN: 1878512153; 9781878512154

Subjects (MeSH): Mentally Ill Persons - psychology

PersonalSubject: Neugeboren, Robert

Format: Book

Publication Type: Collected Correspondence; Diaries; Poetry

Location: Nova Scotia Hospital

Loan Period: 3 weeks

How to cope with mental illness in your family : a self-care guide for siblings, offspring, and parents

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Diane T. Marsh and Rex M. Dickens ; [foreword by E. Fuller Torrey]. --New York, NY: Penguin , 1997.

Call Number: WM 29 M352 1997

Location: Nova Scotia Hospital

Call Number: WM 29 M352 1997

Author: Marsh, Diane

Other Authors: Dickens, Rex M.

Responsibility: Diane T. Marsh and Rex M. Dickens ; [foreword by E. Fuller Torrey]

Former Title: Troubled journey

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Penguin

Date of Publication: 1997

Physical Description: xxxii, 206 p.

Subjects (MeSH): Family Relations; Mentally Ill Persons - psychology; Self Care

Notes: Originally published: Troubled journey. New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1997.

Format: Book

Publication Type: Popular Works

Location: Nova Scotia Hospital

Copies: 2

Loan Period: 3 weeks

Insight and psychosis : awareness of illness in schizophrenia and related disorders

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Amador, Xavier F. (2nd ed.) --New York, NY: Oxford University Press , 2004.

Call Number: WM 200 A481i 2004

Location: Nova Scotia Hospital

Call Number: WM 200 A481i 2004

Author: Amador, Xavier F

Other Authors: David, Anthony S

Edition: 2nd ed.

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Date of Publication: 2004

Physical Description: 402 p.

ISBN: 0198525680

Subjects (MeSH): Psychotic Disorders; Self Concept; Mentally Ill Persons - psychology

Format: Book

Location: Nova Scotia Hospital

Copies: 1

Loan Period: 3 weeks

Insight in psychiatry

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Ivana S. Marková. --Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press , 2005.

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Author: Marková, Ivana

Responsibility: Ivana S. Marková

Place of Publication: Cambridge, UK

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Date of Publication: 2005

Physical Description: xiii, 329 p.

ISBN: 6610308896 (electronic bk.)

Subjects (MeSH): Mental Disorders - psychology; Mentally Ill Persons - psychology; Psychotherapeutic Processes

Contents: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Part I Historical and clinical -- 1 Historical overview -- 1.1 Historical contexts -- 1.2 History of the word -- 1.3 History of the concept -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2 The psychological perspective: Gestalt, cognitive and psychoanalytic -- 2.1 The concept of insight in Gestalt psychology and cognitive psychology -- 2.2 Insight in psychoanalytic psychology -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3 Insight in clinical psychiatry: empirical studies -- 3.1 Definitions of insight and methods of assessment -- 3.2 Relationship between insight and clinical and socio-demographic variables -- 3.3 Conclusion -- 4 Insight in organic brain syndromes: insight into neurological states -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Insight into neurological states -- 4.3 Impaired awareness of function in neurological states -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5 Insight in organic brain syndromes: insight into dementia -- 5.1 The meaning of insight in relation to dementia -- 5.2 Relationship between insight, clinical and socio-demographic variables -- 5.3 Impaired insight/awareness into function in dementia -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Part II Conceptual -- 6 The conceptualisation of insight -- 6.1 The concept of insight: problem of meaning -- 6.2 The phenomenon of insight: problem of interpretation -- 6.3 Conclusion -- 7 The relational aspects of insight: the object' of insight assessment -- 7.1 Significance of the relational aspects of insight -- 7.2 The meaning of object' of insight assessment -- 7.3 The phenomenon of insight as determined by the object' of insight assessment -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8 Towards a structure of insight: awareness and insight, an essential distinction? -- 8.1 Theoretical grounds for distinguishing between awareness and insight -- 8.2 Empirical justification for distinguishing between awareness and insight -- 8.3 Conclusion -- 9 Towards a structure of insight: the relationship between awareness and insight -- 9.1 The structure of insight -- 9.2 Clinical and research implications -- 9.3 Conclusion -- References

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Location: Online

Our encounters with madness

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edited by Alec Grant, Fran Biley, Hannah Walker. --Herefordshire, UK: PCCS Books , c2011.

Call Number: WM 165 G761o 2011

Location: Nova Scotia Hospital

A collection of mental health service user, carer and psychiatric survivor narratives. Unusually, the narratives are unmediated hence there are no biomedical or psychotherapeutic commentaries to capture, tame or sanitise the words of these the experts by experience. Of interest to students of mental health, particularly those interested in first person experience.

Call Number: WM 165 G761o 2011

Other Authors: Grant, Alec; Biley, Francis C.; Walker, Hannah

Responsibility: edited by Alec Grant, Fran Biley, Hannah Walker

Place of Publication: Herefordshire, UK

Publisher: PCCS Books

Date of Publication: c2011

Physical Description: x, 246 p.

ISBN: 9781906254384; 1906254389

Subjects (MeSH): Caregivers - psychology; Mentally Ill Persons - psychology

Abstract: A collection of mental health service user, carer and psychiatric survivor narratives. Unusually, the narratives are unmediated hence there are no biomedical or psychotherapeutic commentaries to capture, tame or sanitise the words of these the experts by experience. Of interest to students of mental health, particularly those interested in first person experience.

Contents: On diagnosis -- Stories of experience -- Experiencing the system -- On being a carer -- Abuse and survival.

Format: Book

Publication Type: Personal Narratives

Location: Nova Scotia Hospital

Loan Period: 3 weeks

Psychiatric Nonadherence : A Solutions-Based Approach

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Victor Fornari, Ida Dancyger, editors. --Cham: Springer , 2019.

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This book explores medical nonadherence to treatment and management of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. Leading experts in the field, specializing in a range of mental health problems describe the impact of nonadherence in the treatment of children, adolescents, transition age youths, adults, and older adults. The book eloquently articulates the key elements of effective physicians and offers clinical pearls on professionalism, empathy, and the doctor-patient relationship—a key compon…

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Other Authors: Fornari, Victor; Dancyger, Ida

Responsibility: Victor Fornari, Ida Dancyger, editors

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: 2019

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 222 p.) : 2 illus., 1 illus. in color

ISBN: 9783030126650; 9783030126643 (Print ed.); 9783030126667 (Print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Mental Disorders - psychology; Patient Compliance - psychology; Physician-Patient Relations; Mentally Ill Persons - psychology; Treatment Refusal - psychology

Specialty: Psychiatry

Abstract: This book explores medical nonadherence to treatment and management of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. Leading experts in the field, specializing in a range of mental health problems describe the impact of nonadherence in the treatment of children, adolescents, transition age youths, adults, and older adults. The book eloquently articulates the key elements of effective physicians and offers clinical pearls on professionalism, empathy, and the doctor-patient relationship—a key component to solving treatment nonadherence. This volume focuses on solutions for improved clinical outcomes, including communication skills, empathy and building trust, motivational interviewing techniques and the use of technology. Psychiatric Nonadherence is an excellent resource for all clinicians who care for individuals with psychiatric illness. This timely reference will provide guidance to enhance effective treatment adherence for a wide array of medical practitioners, including child and adolescent, adult forensic, and geriatric psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, primary care physicians, psychologists and nurses.

Contents: 1. Health Economics: The Hidden Costs of Mental Illness -- 2. Nonadherence in Childhood Disorders: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder -- 3. Coming of Age and Refusing to Eat: Overcoming Treatment Nonadherence for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa -- 4. The Challenge of Nonadherence in Schizophrenia -- 5. Increasing Psychiatric Treatment Engagement and Adherence in the College Population -- 6. Medication Nonadherence in the Geriatric Psychiatric Population: Do Seniors Take Their Pills? -- Part II. What Makes a Good Doctor? -- 7. Communication Skills Training to Enhance Patient Adherence -- 8. Humanism and Medical Treatment: Clinicians and Patients Finding Common Ground -- 9. Narrative Medicine and the Treatment-Resistant Patient -- Part III. Solving the Dilemma -- 10. Treatment Adherence from the Perspective of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Sitting in the Boat and Staying the Course -- 11. Collaborative Care: An Effort to Increase Behavioral Health Adherence by Supporting the Primary Care Provider -- 12. The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing for Psychiatric Nonadherence -- 13. Pragmatic Trials: Solving the Dilemma of Psychiatric Nonadherence -- 14. Technological Strategies to Address Psychiatric Nonadherence -- 15. Closing the Gap: Where Do We Go from Here?

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Location: Online

Quality of Life Impairment in Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders : New Perspectives on Research and Treatment

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edited by Michael S. Ritsner, A. George Awad. --Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer , c2007.

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Author: Ritsner, Michael S

Other Authors: Awad, A. George

Responsibility: edited by Michael S. Ritsner, A. George Awad

Place of Publication: Dordrecht, Netherlands

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2007

ISBN: 9781402057793

Subjects (MeSH): Schizophrenia; Mood Disorders; Anxiety Disorders; Quality of Life; Mentally Ill Persons - psychology

Subjects (LCSH): Psychiatry

Contents: Key methodological issues -- Distress/protection vulnerability model of quality of life impairment syndrome -- Role of dopamine in pleasure, reward and subjective responses to drugs -- Neuroendocrine functions,mood and quality of life -- In the mind of the beholder neuronal mediators for the effect of emotional experience on quality of life -- Cross-cultural quality of life research in mental health -- Measuring the value of health-related quality of life -- Comparison of instruments for measuring the quality of life impairment syndrome in severe mental disorders -- Integrative bottom-up approach to HRQQL measurement -- Quality of life impairment syndrome in severe mental disorders -- Health related quality of life in subjects at risk for a first episode of psychosis -- Quality of life impairment syndrome in schizophrenia -- Insight and quality of life in schizophrenia spectrum disorders -- Quality of life and major depression -- Quality of life impairment in bipolar disorder -- Quality of life impairment in anxiety disorders -- Quality of life in obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Treatment and rehabilitation issues -- Antipsychotic medications, schizophrenia and the issue of quality of life -- Quality of life outcomes of ECT -- Quality of life in mental health services -- Subjective quality of life in relation to psychiatric rehabilitation and daily life -- Cost-utility analysis.