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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.)

Affective Disorders

(122 pp.)

MANIC-DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS AND PSYCHOTIC DEPRESSION:
Manifest Symptomatology, Psychodynamics,Sociological Factors, and Psychotherapy

Historical Notes

The Manifest Symptomatology of Manic-Depressive Psychosis

Psychodynamic Mechanisms

Prepsychotic Personality

Depression as a Feeling and as a Mechanism

The Study of Affective Psychoses from the Point of View of Sociocultural Psychiatry

Schizophrenia: Psychodynamic Mechanisms and Psychostructural Forms

(107 pp.)

Psychodynamics of Schizophrenia

The Family of the Schizophrenic

First Period: Early Childhood

Second Period: Late Childhood

Third Period: Adolescence, Youth, Adulthood

Fourth Period: The Psychosis

The Process of Active Concretization

Paleologic Thought

Desymbolization and Desocialization

Causality and Action: Motor Dysfunctions

Progressive Teleologic Regression

Individual Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia

My own marked preference in the average case of schizophrenia is individual psychotherapy, although with numerous patients I use a mixed psychotherapy and drug therapy. My “bias” is based on the belief that physical therapies, as far as we know or can infer, produce only a symptomatic improvement, whereas psychotherapy tends to (1) remove the basic conflicts which are important and necessary causative elements of the disorder; (2) correct the psychopathologic patterns; (3) change the self-image of the patient and therefore make him less vulnerable; and (4) permit the regenerative psychological powers of the organism to regain the lost ground. (71 pp.)

American Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 1

The Foundations of Psychiatry. Offers an overview of the History of Psychiatry, Basic Notions, Human Development, Schools of Psychiatry, and Psychiatric Contributions from related fields. Download the entire volume or choose any of the individual chapters below. (3272 pp.)

The Basic Questions and the Psychological Approach

The major themes of this book will be the psychopathology and psychotherapy of the individual patient—child, adolescent, and adult. When we go beyond the study of manifest symptomatology and make our first acquaintance with the history of the depressed patient, we feel as if an invisible force, running throughout his life, has brought him to his present predicament. One of the main aims of this book is to make visible that invisible force, by showing how it came into existence and sustained itself on many facts, internal and external, individual and sociocultural; most of them unconscious and others conscious, but with unconscious ramifications.

The Manifest Symptomatology of Depression in Adults

A depression is called primary when it constitutes an essential component of a syndrome. An endogenous depression is based on organic factors. A reactive depression is precipitated by an event perceived by the patient as harmful. The differentiation between psychotic depression and depressive neurosis depends on wether the reaction affects the reality testing enough to be considered a psychosis.