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American Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 6

New Psychiatric Frontiers: “Where do we go from here?” What will psychiatry be in the future? The human being being what he is—subject not only to biological nature but to an environment that is rapidly changing its multiple systems of sym​bols, feelings, and values—predictions are impossible except for the immediate future. For us it will be sufficient to have given an adequate representation of psychiatry in our own time. (2654 pp.)

Creativity and its Cultivation

Creativity is an important part of the study of man and can be approached in many ways. This chapter will deal with some aspects of this subject that are related to psychiatry. (61 pp.)

American Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 7

Among the topics considered are endorphins and psychosis, implications of split-brain studies, the latest findings on the genetic models of mental illness, psychopharmacotherapy as applied exclusively to children, the child at risk for major psychiatric illness, borderline syndromes in childhood, new changes in the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism, new concepts of masked depression, biofeedback, concepts of human sexuality, new management of sleep disorders, the role of adult play in mental health, the prevention and treatment of mental retardation, the roles of computers in psychiatry, changes in law that pertain to psychiatry, current ideas on art, poetry, and music therapy, and the family of the schizophrenic as a participant in the therapeutic task. (2079 pp.)

American Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 3

A compendium of Adult Psychiatry covering

  • General Concepts about Neuroses and Related Disorders
  • Specific Neurotic and Character-Disordered Behavior and Syndromes
  • Syndromes Associated with Action Directed against the Environment
  • Sexual Behavior and Syndromes
  • Addictive Behavior and Syndromes
  • Functional Psychoses and Related Conditions
  • Unclassified Behavior and Syndromes

(2365 pp.)

Psychotherapy of Depression During the Middle Years

What sooner or later emerges is the symbolic importance of having reached the middle years, the menopause, or the climacterium. A recurring theme is that life has come, or is about to come, to an end.

  • Specific Psychodynamics in the Middle Years
  • Psychotherapy
  • Case Reports

Sociocultural Factors, Sociology of Knowledge, and Depression

  • Introduction
  • Greater Incidence of Depression in Women
  • Affective Psychoses and Inner-Directed or Other-Directed Society
  • Literature and Depression: Tragedy
  • Our Era As the Age of Depression
  • Socio-Philosophical Premises of the Psychotherapist of Depressed Patients