Revised throughout and greatly expanded by the addition of two entirely new chapters, this book remains a practical and pragmatic distillation of the psychiatry of relevance to the terminally ill.

This book reviews the range of psychoses that complicate the reproductive process. Armed with this comprehensive knowledge and wielding a range of interventions, women can be restored to health and their vital roles in the family and community. Additionally, multidisciplinary preventive strategies can transform the lives of vulnerable women.

This new edition describes a stage-specific model highlighting the risk, the clinical and biological factors present during the development of psychotic illness, and the best treatments available for each of these stages. Guides practitioners and researchers in the adoption of carefully planned management strategies fully integrating treatment with prevention.

The second edition of The Substance Abuse Handbook follows the general organization of the 'big' book, Lowinson and Ruiz's Substance Abuse. This title distills content from the larger text into a concise, portable guide for healthcare professionals who need to diagnose and treat addictive disorders and related medical conditions.

The Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: Integrative Clinical Strategies and Future Directions provides readers with an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to treating this debilitating and highly prevalent disorder.

Most people have some idea of the meaning of the words sadism and masochism, but for few people does their understanding go beyond rather vague ideas such as inflicting, or enjoying pain. This book examines psychological, defence mechanisms - such as hysteria and projective identification - and looks at their relationship to sado-masochism.

The Wandering Mind introduces readers to dissociative states and helps them understand the nature of serious dissociative disorders, such as those involving multiple personalities. The authors pinpoint the differences between normal dissociation and disordered thinking that requires evaluation and treatment.

When a child without a fully developed language experiences physical and psychological stress that exceeds the child's capacity to cope, the experience can leave lasting marks, unless the child receives treatment. The most important messages are, "Never allow the child's pain to be forgotten," and "Everything that is left unsaid ties up energy."

People with gender identity problems are increasingly often encountered by health professionals. This book provides an account of the management of disorders of gender identity and their differential diagnoses. It considers, among others, coincidental mental illness, disability, family and relationship issues, forensic and military settings.