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  • 28 Feb 2024
    Gordon J. Wood, Holly B. Yang, Elise C. Carey

    A Practical Guide to Discussing What Matters Most with Seriously Ill Patients

    Navigating Communication with Seriously Ill Patients, Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope – The VitalTalk Method is a book written for all clinicians who want to communicate better with seriously ill patients and their family members.

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  • 15 Feb 2024
    Stanley Ulijaszek

    Obesity unpacked: a journey into complexity

    Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. I wrote ’Understanding Obesity’ out of a dissatisfaction with the dominant lines of investigation into this phenomenon, and the discourses that drive them. Sure, huge scientific progress has been made in understanding the physiology of eating and body […]

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  • 14 Feb 2024
    Jane Morris

    WHAT’S CHANGED FOR UK UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH?

    As I wrote my book Improving University Mental Health, the commonest question people asked was ‘who is the intended audience?’  If you are reading these words, then the answer is ‘you are!’   Did you go to university?  What was your experience of emerging into adult life?  What can we do better? Readers seeking simple answers will be […]

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  • 25 Jan 2024
    Brendan Kelly, Patricia Casey

    Fish’s Clinical Psychopathology (Fifth Edition)

    Psychopathology is fascinating. It is the science and study of psychological and psychiatric symptoms. A clear understanding of clinical psychopathology lies at the heart of effective delivery of psychiatric care. Psychopathology is essential. For many years, the central textbook in this field was a 128-page volume written in 1967 by Frank Fish, titled Clinical Psychopathology: […]

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  • 22 Jan 2024
    Allan House, Elspeth Guthrie, Rachel Thomasson

    Liaison psychiatry – where physical and mental healthcare meet

    Most people are familiar with the idea that there is an interaction between physical and mental health. Living with severe chronic illness or disability can have very marked psychological impact, and experience from the recent pandemic has shown how acute severe illness and its personal and social consequences can affect mental health. Other obvious examples […]

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  • 29 Nov 2023
    Adam Polnay, Rhiannon Pugh

    (Re)discovering the Basics of Therapy: A Continuing Process for Psychotherapists

    As clinicians involved in training and supervision, we have observed in others and ourselves how starting psychotherapy with a patient is often anxiety-provoking for both parties. This experience may leave new therapists in particular feeling de-skilled. Learning a new style of working can add to a feeling of being at sea. It is perfectly understandable […]

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  • 12 Oct 2023
    John A. Jarratt

    Essential Electromyography

    This book, based on the author’s 25 years of practising and teaching the specialty of clinical neurophysiology, is aimed at two groups of clinicians. First and foremost, at new trainees in clinical neurophysiology. It is an exciting time for them. They are about to learn a completely new diagnostic approach which benefits from all the […]

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  • 12 Oct 2023
    Allan House, Cathy Brennan

    Social media and mental health: moving beyond rhetoric to evidence

    A recurring topic in recent discussions about public health in developed countries has been concern about the mental health of young people. There is evidence going back over a decade of increase in levels of self-reported distress such as depression and anxiety and of self-harm. Explanations for these observations will naturally point to large scale […]

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