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Throughout the text Gilbert shows how two psychological systems (derived from ethological and experimental work), labelled the defense and safety system dominate the unfolding and integration of human mental life.

This program takes a collection of deeply personal interviews and relates them to the different stages of the grieving process: disbelief, sadness, loneliness, depression, fear, anger, guilt, and exhaustion. The viewer also sees how grief is a process that can lead to understanding and acceptance.

This collection of sixteen clinical vignettes range in length from 5 to 12 minutes providing support for instruction and as a video examination in DSM-IV diagnosis. It includes a guide that illustrates one or more Axis I or Axis II disorders.

Dr. David Eagleman, one of the world's leading neuroscientists and founder of the Neuroscience and Law Initiative, takes viewers on an amazing journey into uncharted waters - the landscape of the criminal mind.

Decolonizing Mental Health dismantles the racism that underscores the mental healthcare industry. By focusing its gaze on the transformative work of therapists and individuals of color, it calls for a redressal of the ways in which we define psychiatric illness and health.

In a world exclusive, Panorama follows a group of severely brain injured patients and reveals the revolutionary efforts made to help them communicate with their families and the outside world. They witness the moment when a patient regarded as vegetative for more than a decade is able to answer a series of questions whilst inside a brain scanner. The findings have profound implications for the patients and their families, as well as ethical consequences...

"Of the approximately 38,500 deaths by suicide in the U.S. annually, about two percent - between 750 and 800 - are murder-suicides. The horror of the murder-suicide looms large in the public consciousness-they are reported in the media with more frequency and far more sensationalism than most suicides, and yet very little research has been conducted on this grave form of violence. In The Perversion of Virtue, suicide researcher Thomas Joiner explores...

"Antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs have become some of the biggest blockbusters of the early 21st century, increasingly prescribed not just to people with 'schizophrenia' or other severe forms of mental disturbance but for a range of more common psychological complaints. This book challenges the accepted account that portrays antipsychotics as specific treatments that target an underlying brain disease and explores early views that suggested, in contrast,...

"The first qualitative research methods textbook devoted to health and clinical psychology, this edited volume examines the issues and methods at the heart of qualitative research. With contributions from world-leading researchers, it features a wealth of examples from real-life research projects, illustrating how theory translates into practice"--

By creating art, a person symbolically re-creates him- or herself and begins to put the pieces back together, says Mickie McGraw, cofounder of the Art Therapy Studio, the oldest expressive-arts clinic of its kind in the U.S. This program profiles McGraw and cofounder Dr. George Street, a psychoanalyst who was also an artist, and the unique approach they developed to assist people with disabilities by using art therapy. McGraw discusses her childhood...