Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought Review

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(More customer reviews)Louis Sass has written a fascinating comparisonof modernism and schizophrenia and related disorders -- I couldn't put this book down. Sass' knowledge of modern art and literature, coupled with his experience as a clinical psychologist and professor at Rutgers, makes this book. It's extremely well-written -- the language is complex, but by no means stilted and academic for the sake of being academic. Sass' words will catch you and draw you through fascinating discussions about identity, language, visual representation, and much more. He presents balanced observations and makes appropriate connections -- he doesn't romanticize schizophrenia. One story he relays expresses this perfectly (pardon my paraphrasing): James Joyce discussed the creative similarities between him and his daughter, a schizophrenic, with Carl Jung. Jung described the difference between Joyce's creativity and his daughter's seeming creativity by saying that the difference was that Joyce was diving down into the depths while his daughter was falling. This is a perfect analogy to put Sass' book into perspective. If you have any interest in issues of identity, psychology, and modern culture, you will want to read this book.

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Psychiatry (Oxford Medical Publications) Review

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(More customer reviews)For students of any mental health profession, this is an essential text. It is written, though, with practice in the U.K. predominantly in mind. Nevertheless, if you have ever come across Maurice Sainsbury's "Key to Psychiatry", found its approach direct, concise and waffle-free and longed for a more up-to-date text like it, this is it. It is linked throughout to the ICD-10 and DSM-IV (as every psychiatry text should!) The text doesn't spare a word, the language is rich and free of vague opinionating. Packed as it is with key facts and concise, clear explanations there is little room left for waxing lyrical! But if you like your text books to-the-point, with plenty of bullet-pointed tables elucidating concepts at-a-glance and set out under easy-to-find headings in bite-size chunks, this text does it without losing the rich detail needed. Get it!

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Psychiatry introduces medicine students to the subject in a concise, innovative and memorable way. Its patient-centred approach blends a discussion of the theoretical basis of different psychiatric disorders with an explanation of the management of these disorders in everyday clinical practice, using genuine case histories to place the content in a realistic context.Recognizing that having positive interactions with a patient is central to the provision of successful psychiatric care, the book includes guidance on history-taking and assessment, while also reflecting best practice as set out by current clinical guidelines.Having undergone an extensive revision for this fourth edition, and covering all the major psychiatric conditions in a logically-structured way, the book is an invaluable guide to all individuals who are likely to encounter those with psychiatric problems, including students of medicine, healthcare, and social work. Online Resource CentreThe Online Resource Centre to accompany Psychiatry features DT Figures and tables from the book in electronic formatDT Self-assessment materials for studentsDT Updates on the latest clinical guidelines

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Psychiatry an Evidence Based Text (A Hodder Arnold Publication) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this book to revise a few basic concepts before applying for a liaison psychiatry post in Edinburgh. The interview panel will be chaired by Prof. Mike Sharpe who has a strong interest in Chronic Fatigue and other functional somatic complaints. I was therefore very, very pleased to find the chapter on ME/CFS in this book to be a real gem. Overall this is a superb book and I would recommend it to anyone studying for their MRCpsych exams. Indeed it is THE ONLY BOOK TO COVER THE ENTIRE SYLLABUS!!!

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A career in psychiatry is one of the most rewarding and challenging in medicine. The trainee requires an extremely broad knowledge base to succeed, and an authoritative yet approachable source of information is essential. This book brings together expert knowledge and skills from across all areas of psychiatry to present a thorough but user-friendly guide to success in psychiatric training, with a particular focus on the Royal College of Psychiatrists' MRCPsych examination. Chapters have been carefully selected and sequenced to reflect the structure of the syllabus and examination. Summaries of key points, suggestions for further reading and full color illustrations ensure that this single colume is the only textbook needed to guide you to examination success. Detailed coverage of basic sciences underpinning psychiatry provides an introductory framework and later chapters discuss pharmacological and psychological treatments in depth.

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Black Sun Review

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(More customer reviews)In much the same way that Philippe Aries took the subject of childhood and illuminated it for all time in "Centuries of Childhood," fellow French writer (although Bulgarian-born) and Lacanian psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva examines depression and melancholia. She comes at it from various angles and filters: fine arts, literature, history, philosophy, religion, and of course psychology. She posits psychoanalysis as a (really THE) 'counterdepressant' -- convincingly. This is great highbrow stuff: chapters with titles like"Beauty, the Depressive's Other Realm," and "Life and Death of Speech." Death, suicide, the inevitable gloom resulting from loss of maternal, later erotic, love; all are insightfully discussed -- even rather tenderly. If you're depressed BLACK SUN won't make you more so -- and if you're feeling okay to begin with, it's a terrific scholarly study.

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InBlack Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachment lies at the very core of depression's dark heart.In her discussion she analyzes Holbein's controversial 1522 painting "The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb," and has revealing comments on the works of Marguerite Duras, Dostoyevsky and Nerval.Black Sun takes the view that depression is a discourse with a language to be learned, rather than strictly a pathology to be treated.

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