Introduction When patients are facing potentially devastating psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, medications are often life transformative or, in some cases – where suicidal…
Introduction How does one avoid such tongue wagging? What does it mean to have something real behind one’s words of influence? The answer, as we shall see in this chapter,…
Introduction: A Reason to Be To emphasize the importance of cross-cultural awareness in the initial interview, we have liberally interlaced cross-cultural concerns and insights throughout the preceding nineteen chapters of…
Introduction To see what one is actually seeing – to see wisely, as Sir William Osler advised – is not necessarily as easy as it might seem at first glance….
Introduction As the above quotation illustrates, for ages humans have enthusiastically attempted to classify each other. Such behavior seems to represent a trademark of the species, for better or worse….
Understanding the Challenge of Exploring Sensitive Material We have spent the last two chapters exploring the nuances and techniques that can help us to gather a comprehensive database in a…
Introduction In the early 1800s as Blake wandered the drab lanes of London, his eyes met the face of depression at every corner. Depression stalked among merchants, seamen, and prostitutes…
Figure 6.1 Activated areas on axial planes of the standard glass brain images (upper side of axial image shows left hemisphere). The figure on the left shows the activated areas averaged…
Figure 20.1 Graphical representation of the three-layer model. The small circles represent representational elements in long-term memory, linked by associations (continuous lines); the activated part of long-term memory is designated by…
Figure 5.1 An illustration of focus-switching effect (data from Verhaeghen and Basak 2005, Experiment 1). The top of the figure illustrates the two-tier structure of working memory (McElree 2001): within working memory, only…
