A broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer's advocate shares her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease, examining this devastating condition and its effects on the people who have it and those who care for them.

Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. In recent decades, however, we have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and requiring the ministrations of mental health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. Being "in touch with one's feelings" and freely expressing them have become paramount personal virtues. Today-with a book for every...

Drug court works! And having The Drug Court Textbook is an important aspect of helping the drug-addicted person and to help local communities understand alcohol and drug addiction. It will help by having employees who have learned about the program in school and then use the book on the job. Colleges and universities can teach students in the helping fields to understand the drug court program, how it works, and its effectiveness.

Socio-genomics has rapidly become one of the trendiest sciences of the new millennium. Practitioners view human nature and life outcomes as the result of genetic and social factors. In Social by Nature, Catherine Bliss recognizes the promise of this interdisciplinary young science, but also questions its implications for the future. As she points out, the claim that genetic similarities cause groups of people to behave in similar ways is not new-and...

Ross Parsons has been working with HIV-positive children in Mutare since 2005. As a child psychotherapist, he was interested in exploring how a therapeutic group, meeting regularly, might offer a way of elaborating and meeting their needs. His account of these experiences is presented as a rare blend of anthropological and psychotherapeutic approaches to the study of children, and he is candid about the close, even intimate, relationships that resulted:...

Mental illness is many things at once: It is a natural phenomenon that is also shaped by society and culture. It is biological but also behavioral and social. Mental illness is a problem of both the brain and the mind, and this ambiguity presents a challenge for those who seek to accurately classify psychiatric disorders. The leading resource we have for doing so is the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, but no edition...

In US of AA, Miller shares the never-before-told story of how in the aftermath of prohibition America's top scientists helped launch a movement that would give rise to a multi-million-dollar treatment industry and a new government agency devoted to alcoholism that has made available millions of dollars for research. Despite the fact that this research showed that alcoholism is a complex disease requiring an array of treatment strategies, among which...

Prozak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultural shift in how people interpret and express their feeling states, by adopting the language of psychiatry, and shows how experiences that were once articulated in the richly layered poetics of the Persian language became, by the 1990s, part of a clinical discourse on mood and affect. In asking how psychiatric dialect becomes a language of everyday,...

Cet ouvrage présente un panorama détaillé des enjeux du développement d'Internet comme source d'information sur la santé afin de mieux cerner les usages et les modes d'appropriation de cette information par les différents publics et de mieux comprendre le potentiel de cet outil.

En Colombia, el derecho a la salud se ha abordado desde múltiples enfoques sobre derechos fundamentales, derechos sociales y postulados contrapuestos que han generado inseguridad jurídica y obstáculos en el camino hacia su exigibilidad. A este inconveniente se suma la escasa claridad sobre las obligaciones derivadas del derecho a la salud. En este trabajo se pretende examinar y establecer criterios sólidos sobre su naturaleza y alcance, para la...