4 eBooks available.
In this novel, “The President’s Secret,” America’s first woman president struggles with her past, and seeks psychotherapy to manage the effects of distant trauma on her current behavior. The book explores not only psychotherapy for sexual trauma, but also problems in managing transference as well as the importance of psychotherapy supervision.
This book was recognized as a “short list finalist” as a novel-in-progress in the prestigious William Faulkner/William Wisdom writing competition.
Dr. Paul Kettl is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.
An overview of essential points of caring for the psychiatric problems of elders such as: care for elder depression, dementias and delirium, alcohol and drug abuse and intellectual disability. (197 pp.)
As in all interpersonal or physical aspects of our lives, there can be problems in sex, and sexual behavior. Perhaps no part of medical care is dominated by as much stigma as sexuality, and perhaps no other area carries as much misunderstanding as sexuality and sexual disorders. This book presents a brief overview of sexual disorders, dysfunction, paraphilias, and gender dysphoria. (99 pages)
This short book is a beginning exploration into the concept that infectious agents can eventually cause mental illness. The hope is that an exploration of infectious agents and their role in mental illness will lead to a more full understanding of the pathology behind mental illnesses, but more than that, lead to ideas about treatments for these disorders. (87 pp.)
