Published September, 2018
By Shulamit Ramon
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Originally published in 1985, this book focuses on British psychiatric policies, particularly in the 1920s, and 1950s when the main legislation concerning mental illness was passed. It approaches policy primarily as the outcome of the relationship between politicians' attitudes and those of professional groups in a specific social context.

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Published September, 2018
By Joan Gomez
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This book, originally published in 1987, begins by examining the scope and organisational issues of liaison psychiatry at the time and its role in psychiatric patients with organic disease, psychosomatic disorders, emotional reactions to physical disease, terminal illness, etc.

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Published September, 2018
By Joy Melville
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Originally published in 1980, this title offers a clear, helpful and sympathetic guide to the nature of mental illness and the kinds of help and treatment available at the time.

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Published September, 2018
By Michael Barnett
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Originally published in 1973, this book is about people and psychiatry. About people who rejected psychiatry as it was generally practised at the time, people who sought for and found alternative ways of caring for and healing one another.

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Published September, 2018
By Greg Wilkinson, Paul Williams and Kenneth Rawnsley
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The late Professor Michael Shepherd was one of the most eminent and respected international figures in psychiatry. Originally published in 1989, this volume of essays, written specifically in his honour, is concerned with the scientific approach to epidemiological psychiatry.

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Published September, 2018
By T.A. Ratcliffe
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This title, originally published in 1970, is a collection of twelve lectures, given by the author, a child psychiatrist, on various 'special occasions' during the years prior to publication, in which he emphasized the importance of environmental factors in understanding and working with children.

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Published September, 2018
By Robert H. Ahrenfeldt
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Originally published in 1958, this account of the work of psychiatrists in the British Army during the Second World War is based on the study of all available documents, published and unpublished, as well as on the author's first-hand experience of the clinical and administrative aspects of Army psychiatry.

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Published September, 2018
By Margaret S. Chisolm and Margaret Chisolm
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Published September, 2018
By Ian Hanley and Mary Gilhooly
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The focus of this book, originally published in 1986, is on therapeutic approaches and the effective implementation of services for the elderly. While the book is aimed particularly at clinical psychologists, it will also be of great interest to medical, nursing or occupational therapy staff working with elderly people.

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Published September, 2018
By Bruce A. Thyer and Walter W. Hudson
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Originally published in 1987, here are up-to-the-minute insights and perspectives on the application of the principles of behavioralism to social work practice.

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