Faculty Books List by Subject Category (I - Z)

MEMOIR

Nothing was the Same: A Memoir
Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., 2009

Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In direct, straightforward, and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic honesty, candor, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.

But she also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving—if troubled on occasion by her manic-depressive (bipolar) illness—as Jamison reveals the ways in which her husband encouraged her to write openly about her mental illness and, through his courage and grace taught her to live fully.

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Jamison, Kay Redfield, Ph.D.  1995

As a co-author of a standard text on mood disorders, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison is an authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors.  And it is this dual perspective — as healer and healed — that makes her memoir so learned and affecting.

NEUROPSYCHIATRY

Intellectual Disability: A Guide for Families and Professionals
Oxford University Press USA, 2010
James C. Harris, M.D.

Approximately 2.5 million people in the United States--one percent of the population--have an intellectual disability (previously referred to as mental retardation). These conditions range from genetic disorders such as Down syndrome to disabilities caused by infectious diseases and brain injury. Intellectual Disability: A Guide for Families and Professionals , by one of the country's foremost authorities on intellectual disability, is a comprehensive resource that will be of importance to anyone with a personal connection to a child or adult with a neurodevelopmental disorder.

Emphasizing the humanity of persons with intellectual and related developmental disabilities, psychiatrist and pediatrician James Harris provides essential information on assessment and diagnosis of intellectual disability, treatments for specific disorders, and ways to take advantage of the wide array of services available today. The focus throughout is on the development of the person, the positive supports necessary for self-determination, and, to the extent possible, independent decision making. Harris also surveys historical attitudes toward intellectual disability, the medical community's current understanding of its causes and frequency, and the associated physical, behavioral, and psychiatric conditions (such as seizure disorder, depression, and autism) that often accompany particular types of intellectual disability. The book addresses legal, medical, mental health, and research-related issues as well as matters of spirituality, highlighting the ways in which individuals with intellectual disability can meaningfully participate in the spiritual lives of their families and their communities. Each chapter ends with a series of key points to remember, and the book concludes with a list of additional resources of further interest.
Intellectual Disability is a must-read for parents and families of those with neurodevelopmental disorders, providing guidance and essential information to help their family members effectively, and to make a significant, positive difference in their lives now and in the future.

Developmental Neuropsychiatry:
Volume I: Fundamentals
Harris, James, M.D. 1998

Although developmental concepts have held a prominent place in American psychiatry for over fifty years because of the dominance of psychodynamic theory, it is only in recent years that advances in neuroscience have begun to affect developmental psychiatry. James Harris's two-volume work on developmental neuropsychiatry sets the agenda for this emerging clinical specialty.
 
In Volume I, Part I discusses basic neural science, including aspects of molecular neurobiology, developmental neuroanatomy, neurotransmitter systems and neuronal signaling mechanisms, sleep and circadian rhythms, and basic genetics. Part II provides background on cognitive neuroscience that relate to attention, emotion, language, memory, neural networks, and consciousness. Part III emphasizes the developmental perspective which is crucial to an understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders. It offers an ethological framework as well as background information on cognitive development, emotion expression and regulation, language development, temperament and personality, and the emergence of the self.

Developmental Neuropsychiatry:
Volume II: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Developmental Disorders
Harris, James, M.D.  1998

In Volume II, Dr. Harris provides a comprehensive review of the developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. Throughout the text current DSM-IV diagnostic criteria are provided. Part I outlines the diagnostic process and the genetic history, provides details on the conduct of neuropsychological testing, and offers a detailed review of brain imaging techniques, moving from CT and MRI scanning to the most recent developments in functional MRI and PET scanning. Part II discusses mental retardation, cerebral palsy, the learning disorders, the pervasive developmental disorders, and traumatic brain injury. Part III describes behavioral phenotypes in cytogenetic and other genetic disorders, genetic metabolic disorders, and disorders that result from gestational substance abuse. Part IV is devoted to developmental psychopathology and includes attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia, Tourette's disorder, sleep disorders, and the syndromes of aggression and self-injury primarily occurring in mentally retarded persons. Part V covers treatment and includes detailed descriptions of psychotherapy, behavior therapy, pharmacological interventions, genetic counseling, and gene therapy. Finally, Part VI deals with legal and ethical issues as they pertain to developmentally disabled persons.

Getting Old Without
Getting Anxious
Rabins, Peter V., M.D., M.P.H.,
and Lynn Lauber  2006

Getting Old Without Getting Anxious assists older people and their caregivers in overcoming one of the more crippling and misunderstood human afflictions: anxiety. Geriatric psychiatrist and co-author of The 36-Hour Day, Dr. Rabins explains that the many changes that occur as a person ages can trigger anxiety. Stories from patients encourage and motivate both those suffering from anxiety and their caregivers.

Neurobiology of Primary Dementia

This book examines the frequency and characteristics of dementia and cognitive impairment. The contributors base their observations and conclusions on data collected within an ethnically diverse population of elderly people who use community-based health care services. Contributing authors explore topics ranging from familial Alzheimer’s disease, prion diseases, and dementia associated with poststroke major depression, to vascular dementia, dementia pugilistica, and head trauma as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. They also discuss diagnostic and treatment issues, as well as ethical questions involving dementia and dementia as it relates to health care reform.

Psychiatric Aspects of Neurological Diseases:
Practical Approaches to Patient Care
Lyketsos, Constantine, M.D., M.H.S., Peter Rabins, M.D., M.P.H., John R. Lipsey, M.D., Phillip Slavney, M.D. (Editors) 2008

This compendium is targeted at neurologists, psychiatrists, and other physicians who care for patients with the most common neurologic diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to stroke to headaches to multiple sclerosis to epilepsy. The book provides a practical approach to the evaluation and treatment of the psychiatric conditions that affect the vast majority of these patients and are as disabling as the neurologic symptoms.

A practical guide to the management of various clinical issues seen in patients with Parkinson’s disease, this text emphasizes the need for coordinated care between the various professionals, as well as between professionals and caregivers.

Providing an update on current developments in the neurology and management of Parkinson's disease, as well as the understanding and treatment of non-motor aspects of Parkinson's disease, the book also includes a variety of topics such as depression, psychosis, and anxiety.

The 36-Hour Day

Revised in 2006 for its twenty-fifth anniversary, this best-selling book is the "bible" for families caring for people with Alzheimer disease, offering comfort and support to millions worldwide. In addition to the practical and compassionate guidance that have made The 36-Hour Day invaluable to caregivers, the fourth edition is the only edition currently available that includes new information on medical research and the delivery of care. The new edition includes: new information on diagnostic evaluation; resources for families and adult children who care for people with dementia; updated legal and financial information; the latest information on nursing homes and other communal living arrangements; new information on research, medications, and the biological causes and effects of dementia.

OCCUPATIONAL PSYCHIATRY

PAIN TREATMENT

Pain and Depression: An Interdisciplinary
Patient-Centered Approach  
Clark, Michael R., M.D., and Glenn J. Treisman, M.D., Ph.D., (Editors)  2004

Pain and depression are very common complaints and often occur together. This book discusses the relationship between chronic pain and depression, and how best to treat them when they occur together. The topics covered include the use of opioids in chronic pain, complex regional pain syndrome, and psychological well-being in the face of pain. This book is intended both for researchers investigating chronic nonmalignant pain and for physicians dealing with patients suffering from chronic pain.

PERSONALITY

Borderline Personality Disorder: New Reasons for Hope
by Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D., and Patrick Kelly, M.D.

Borderline personality disorder is a severe and complex psychiatric condition that, until recently, many considered nearly untreatable. But this optimistic guide provides information that will bring newfound hope to those who have this painful disorder, and to their family and friends.

People with borderline personality disorder have problems coping with almost everything, and therefore anything can provoke them to impulsive actions, angry outbursts, and self-destructive behaviors. Their personal relationships are simultaneously overly dependent and strained, if not openly hostile, and frequently explosive. Incorporating the latest research and thinking on the disorder, Johns Hopkins psychiatrists Francis Mark Mondimore and Patrick Kelly conceptualize it in an original way. They explain that symptoms are the result of biological and behavioral problems, extremes of temperament, and impaired psychological coping, all of which may have a relationship with traumatic life events.

The authors advocate a therapeutic approach incorporating compassion and optimism in the face of what is often a tumultuous disease. With proper treatment, people with borderline personality disorder can enjoy long remissions and improved quality of life.

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Exuberance: The Passion for Life 

In this book, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, the author of the bestselling An Unquiet Mind explores the phenomenon of exuberance and how it fuels our creative and scientific achievements.

PSYCHIATRIC REASONING

Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation:
A Step-by-Step Guide to Applying The Perspectives of Psychiatry
Margaret S. Chisolm, M.D., and Constantine G. Lyketsos, M.D., M.H.S.
foreword by Paul R. McHugh, M.D., and Phillip R. Slavney, M.D.

The Perspectives approach to psychiatry focuses on four aspects of psychiatric practice and research: disease, dimensional, behavior, and lifestory. In Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation, Drs. Margaret S. Chisolm and Constantine G. Lyketsos underscore the benefits of this approach, showing how it improves clinicians' abilities to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients.

Drs. Chisolm and Lyketsos use increasingly complex case histories to help the mental health provider evaluate patients demonstrating symptoms of bipolar disorder, psychosis, suicidal ideation, depression, eating disorders, and cutting, among other conditions. The book also includes an exercise that simulates the Perspectives approach side by side with traditional methods, revealing the advantages of a method that engages not one but four points of view.

Featuring a foreword by Drs. Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney, the originators of the Perspectives approach, this innovative book will be used in psychiatric training programs as well as by practicing mental health clinicians.

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 Trouble in Mind: An Unorthodox Introduction to Psychiatry
by Dean F. MacKinnon, M.D. 2010

Orthodox psychiatric texts are often rich in facts, but thin in concept. Depression may be defined as a dysfunction of mood, but of what use is a mood? How can anxiety be both symptom and adaptation to stress? What links the disparate disabilities of perception and reasoning in schizophrenia? Why does the same situation push one person into drink, drugs, danger, or despair and bounce harmlessly off another? Trouble in Mind is unorthodox because it models adaptive mental function along with mental illness to answer questions like these. From experience as a Johns Hopkins clinician, educator, and researcher, Dean F. MacKinnon offers a unique perspective on the nature of human anguish, unreason, disability, and self-destruction. He shows what mental illness can teach about the mind, from molecules to memory to motivation to meaning.

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Try to Remember: Psychiatry's Clash Over Meaning, Memory, and Mind
McHugh, Paul R., M.D.  2008

In this thought-provoking account, McHugh explains why trendy diagnoses and misguided treatments have repeatedly taken over psychotherapy. He recounts his participation in court battles that erupted over diagnoses of recovered memories and the frequent companion diagnoses of multiple-personality disorders. He also warns that diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder today may be perpetuating a similar misdirection, thus exacerbating the patients’ suffering. He argues that both the public and psychiatric professionals must raise their standards for psychotherapy, in order to ensure that the incorrect designation of memory as the root cause of disorders does not occur again. Psychotherapy, McHugh ultimately shows, is a valuable healing method—and at the very least an important adjunct treatment—to the numerous psychopharmaceuticals that flood the drug market today.

The Mind Has Mountains

From strenuous opposition to physician-assisted suicide to a conviction that sex-correction surgery for newborns is cruel and misguided, Dr. McHugh's opinions are clear and often controversial. In this collection of essays, he argues for a realistic appraisal of just what psychiatrists know and how they know it, with the aim of indicating how such knowledge can best be used not only for better patient care but also to reflect on and influence public issues and social movements. Dr. McHugh sorts through layers of what he terms the "culturally driven misconception of psychiatry and psychotherapy" to explain concepts often misunderstood by nonscholars and the intellectual community alike. These essays are intended to stimulate professional and popular discussions about the goals and effectiveness of current psychiatric practice. 

The Perspectives of Psychiatry
Second Edition
McHugh, Paul R., M.D., and Phillip R. Slavney, M.D.
1998

This work, substantially revised in its second edition, brings structure to a fragmented and amorphous discipline. The authors propose an approach that emphasizes psychiatry's unifying concepts while accommodating its diversity. Recognizing that there may never be a single, all-encompassing theory for the field, the book distills psychiatric practice into four explanatory methods: diseases, dimensions of personality, goal-directed behaviors, and life stories. The authors argue that these methods, which have different strengths and weaknesses, can be combined to provide an understanding of psychiatric disorders and a rationale for their treatment.

PSYCHOTHERAPY

Persuasion and Healing

This influential study of psychological healing treats topics ranging from religious revivalism and magical healing to contemporary psychotherapies, from the role of the shaman in nonindustrialized societies to the traditional mental hospital. Jerome and Julia Frank (father and daughter) contend that these therapies share common elements that improve the morale of sufferers. And in combating the demoralizing meaning that people attach to their experiences, the authors argue, many therapies are surprisingly similar to rhetoric (the art of persuasion) and to hermeneutics (the study of meanings).

SEXUALITY

A Natural History of Homosexuality

In A Natural History of Homosexuality, Dr. Mondimore synthesizes thinking in biology, history, psychology, and politics to explain how homosexuality has been understood and defined from ancient times until the present. Dr. Mondimore explores themes of discrimination and bigotry in settings as diverse as ancient Greece and Victorian England, early America and fin de siecle Vienna.  He also describes societies which accepted, incorporated, or institutionalized homosexuality into mainstream culture. 

After exploring sexual development in the human fetus, Dr. Mondimore reviews biological research into the nature of sexual orientation.  He then reflects on people and their individual experiences, and on how an individual comes to identify himself or herself as having a sexual orientation.  He also explains our current understanding of bisexuality and the transgender phenomena of transsexualism and transvestism.

SLEEP DISORDERS

SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Reinforcement-Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders: A Comprehensive Behavioral Approach
L. Michelle Tuten, MSW, LCSW-C, Hendree E. Jones, PhD, Cindy M. Schaeffer, PhD, and Maxine L. Stitzer, PhD

Addiction Treatment:
Science and Policy for the Twenty-first Century
Henningfield, Jack E., Ph.D., Santora, Patricia B.,Ph.D., and Bickel, Warren K.  (Editors) 2007

Addiction to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs is one of the major public health issues of our time. In the United States, addictive drug use is involved in one in five deaths. This book critically examines drug addiction treatment in the United States. It explores specific challenges (scientific, medical, social, and legal) to reaching the goal that treatment for drug addiction should be as accessible as treatments for diseases of the heart, liver, and lungs which often result from the use of addictive drugs. These essays, written by leaders in addiction science, medicine, and health policy, present diverse and often opposing points of view to foster thought and discussion. Addiction Treatment provides a foundation for understanding addiction as a treatable illness and for establishing a framework for effective treatment in the twenty-first century.

Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health:
A Biobehavioral Approach
Brigham, Janet, Jack E. Henningfield, Ph.D. and Lynn T. Kozlowski   2001

When smokers inhale smoke into their lungs, they take the drug nicotine into their bodies and brains, where it affects how the smokers feel and act.  And when smokers smoke, they put themselves at risk, often knowingly, of early disability or death. Smoking is one of the world’s most pressing public health problems. Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health reviews the problems caused by smoking and examines individual and public health approaches to reducing smoking and its attendant health problems.

Motivating Behavior Change Among Illicit-Drug Abusers: Research on Contingency Management Interventions

Overcoming drug addiction requires great personal motivation on the part of the addict: the drug abuser must want to break the habit before change can occur. Contingency management interventions represent one of the most effective ways to enhance motivation among substance abusers. This book describes the use of contingency management with individuals addicted to cocaine, heroin, and other illicit-drugs.

The Substance Abuse Handbook
Ruiz Pedro., Eric C. Strain, Ph.D., Langrod J.G. (Editors) 
2007

The Substance Abuse Handbook succinctly presents the most clinically relevant information from Lowinson, Ruiz, Millman and Langrod's Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook, Fourth Edition. In a user-friendly format, this  handbook provides health care professionals with information needed to diagnose and treat addictive disorders and associated medical conditions. Major sections cover etiological factors, substances of abuse, compulsive and addictive behaviors, evaluation and diagnostic classification, treatment modalities, management of associated medical conditions, substance abuse in children, adolescents, and the elderly, women's issues, special groups and settings, models of prevention, training and education, and policy issues.

Tobacco Science, Policy and Public Health
Boyle P., Gray N., Jack E. Henningfield, PhD., Seffrin J., Zatonski W. (Editors) 2004

This book covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health problems of modern times. It pulls together the etiology and burden of the myriad of tobacco-related diseases with the successes and failures of tobacco control policies. The book looks at lessons learned to help set health policy for reducing the burden of tobacco-related diseases. It also deals with the international public health policy issues which bear on control of the problem of tobacco use and which vary between continents.

The Treatment of Opioid Dependence
Strain Eric C.,M.D. and Maxine L. Stitzer, Ph.D. (Eds.)
2006.  

The successor to Strain and Stitzer's Methadone Treatment for Opioid Dependence (Johns Hopkins, 1999), this expanded and updated volume reflects new developments in treatment protocols. Methadone is still the most widely used medication for the treatment of opioid dependence, and the authors provide an extensive section on methadone treatment. Three chapters cover the pharmacology and clinical use of buprenorphine as well as the latest research on naltrexone, clonidine, and lofexidine. The volume also includes chapters on pain and prescription opioids as well as medication-free treatment and medically supervised alternatives to opioid substitute treatments, including withdrawal. The Treatment of Opioid Dependence will be a valuable resource for methadone counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health nurses, and addiction counselors, as well as physicians interested in office-based buprenorphine treatment.

SUICIDE

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison is the author of the bestselling memoir, An Unquiet Mind. In Night Falls Fast, Dr. Jamison examines the phenomenon of suicide, which is one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of 15 and 45.