The “Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders” is a comprehensive two-volume set providing detailed information on mental disorders and conditions, in an easy-to-use format. It includes entries for all 150 disorders classified in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” and also features entries for prescription, alternative and over-the-counter drugs, as well as the various therapies used to treat mental disorders.

Author: Gary, M.A. Gilles
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Company: Thomson Gale (2003)
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This e-book is designed to be used as a companion to the Columbia Pictures film, TAXI DRIVER, which can be rented or purchased in DVD or VHS format from a vendor of the user's choice. It will explain, demonstrate and guide participants in the application of knowledge about diagnostic symptoms, social, vocational and educational impairment, treatment, psychiatric rehabilitation and disability management for a person who has schizotypal personality disorder. This movie classic portrays a textbook example of the disorder and is valuable for learning about it.
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Author: Francine R Goldberg Ph.D.
Kindle Edition: 48 pages Kindle eBook
Company: Beneficial Film Guides (2011-05-03) (2011-05-03)
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Some children seem different, detached, disinterested in the games of other children. They prefer their hobbies to friends of their own age and if forced into community activities, as they often are at school, can become aggressive and difficult. In Loners, Sula Wolff describes a childhood personality syndrome that has frequently been neglected. Often using children's own words, their lives and problems become real as she unwraps their stories from first referral to adulthood. Some have become talented and successful adults, whilst others are less fortunate in later years. Carefully documented and meticulously researched, this study makes compelling reading.

Author: Sula Wolff
Paperback: 208 pages
Company: Routledge (1995-11-22)
ISBN: 0415066654
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This digital document is an article from Clinical Psychiatry News, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2007. The length of the article is 659 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Are features of schizotypal disorder protective?(Adult Psychiatry)
Author: Barbara J. Rutledge
Publication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 35 Issue: 7 Page: 14(1)

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Author: Barbara J. Rutledge
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Company: Thomson Gale (2007-07-01) (2007-08-08)
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This book is devoted to examining schizotypal personality and provides a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge. It includes reviews of genetics, neurodevelopment, assessment, psychophysiology, neuropsychology, and brain imaging. Central themes are the exploration of categorical and dimensional approaches to the understanding of schizotypal disorder and its relationship to schizophrenia, by some of the world's leading researchers. Valuable introductory and concluding chapters set in context the sometimes divergent opinions and findings presented by the book's contributors, and there are reviews of methodological issues and assessment schedules for the benefit of researchers in the field. In setting out to answer, from phenomenological, psychological and neurobiological perspectives, the fundamental question of what schizotypal disorder is and to develop coherent etiological models, this book will serve as an authoritative resource for clinicians and researchers interested in this major personality disorder.

Paperback: 532 pages
Company: Cambridge University Press (2007-02-12)
ISBN: 052103325X
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Anxiety Disorders, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study was conducted to examine the autogenous-reactive model of obsessions [Behav. Res. Ther. 41 (2003) 11-29]. A large number of college students (n=932) were administered a questionnaire battery assessing obsessional intrusions, schizotypal personality features, depressive symptoms, general anxiety and OCD symptoms. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that autogenous obsessions were more strongly associated with schizotypal personality features than with OCD symptoms, general anxiety, or depression, whereas the relationship between reactive obsessions and schizotypal personality features was negligible. Moreover, autogenous obsessions were more strongly associated with covert OCD symptoms, whereas reactive obsessions were more strongly associated with overt OCD symptoms. These findings suggest that autogenous obsessions are more strongly associated with cognitive features (e.g., anomalous perception, obsessing), whereas reactive obsessions are more strongly associated with overt behavioral features (e.g., checking, washing, ordering). Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.

Author: H.J. Lee, M.J. Telch
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Company: Elsevier (2005-01)
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Reduced working memory capacity seems to characterize the memory system of individuals from the schizophrenia spectrum. A probabilistic category learning task was designed in order to empirically test the hypothesis that deficient inhibitory control over the contents of working memory may be a fundamental cognitive abnormality of psychometrically identified schizotypal individuals. Two groups of participants were recruited on the basis of their responses on scales measuring psychotic-like experiences in a self-report schizotypy questionnaire. Simple stimuli were presented visually, and participants were instructed to glean the strength of the connection between pairs of stimuli. The experimental task comprised several learning conditions which were designed to assess predictions derived from the inhibition-deficit hypothesis. Working memory-dependent and working memory-independent task conditions allowed to examine the specificity of the putative inhibition deficit. The subjective strength of connections between pairs of stimuli was doubly dissociated as a function of schizotypy (low scorers, high scorers) and learning condition (discriminative, non-discriminative), but only when there was a delay between the to-be-associated stimuli, i.e. when the task was working memory-dependent. The pattern of results is consistent with the inhibition-deficit hypothesis which conjectures that the flow of information through short-term memory features one serious flaw in individuals from the schizophrenia spectrum, namely the occurrence of mnemonic intrusions from long-term memory into working memory.

Author: B. Kopp
Digital: 18 pages HTML
Company: Elsevier (2007-03-01)
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Some people are very, very tough to deal with and can make you miserable. This is a sad fact of life. This book will help you identify, understand and develop strategies to deal with toxic personalities that you encounter. Written by a prominent clinical psychologist and university professor it explains DSM diagnostic categories such as Anti-social Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and others so that you can make a better determination of whether you are dealing with one of these kinds of indivduals, what science and clinical experience says about these, and most importantly how to deal more effectively with these. This information can help you move from being poisoned by these individuals to regaining control of your life.

Author: William O'Donohue
Kindle Edition: 210 pages Kindle eBook
Company: Lucky Bat Books (2011-06-09) (2011-06-09)
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This digital document is an article from Clinical Psychiatry News, published by International Medical News Group on December 1, 2004. The length of the article is 737 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Psychopathy, Asperger's: a 'serious' combination; Dahmer also had schizoid personality disorder features and schizotypal pathology, expert says.(Forensic Psychiatry)
Author: Joyce Frieden
Publication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 32 Issue: 12 Page: 54(1)

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Author: Joyce Frieden
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Company: International Medical News Group (2004-12-01) (2005-08-01)
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This book is devoted to examining schizotypal personality and provides a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge. It includes reviews of genetics, neurodevelopment, assessment, psychophysiology, neuropsychology, and brain imaging. Central themes are the exploration of categorical and dimensional approaches to the understanding of schizotypal disorder and its relationship to schizophrenia, by some of the world's leading researchers. Valuable introductory and concluding chapters set in context the sometimes divergent opinions and findings presented by the book's contributors, and there are reviews of methodological issues and assessment schedules for the benefit of researchers in the field. In setting out to answer, from phenomenological, psychological and neurobiological perspectives, the fundamental question of what schizotypal disorder is and to develop coherent etiological models, this book will serve as an authoritative resource for clinicians and researchers interested in this major personality disorder.

Hardcover: 532 pages
Company: Cambridge University Press (1995-09-29)
ISBN: 0521454220
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