Advances in Psychiatry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Using School-Based Interventions for Depression Education and Prevention

   • Danielle S. Taubman, Sagar V. Parikh, Helen Christensen, Jan Scott

   Pages 1-32

3. Anxiety Disorders: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond

   • Jonathan Starke, Naomi Fineberg, Dan Stein

   Pages 33-58

4. Semiotic Functions of Outsider Art in Counteracting Stigma

   • Ekaterina Sukhanova

   Pages 59-65

5. How the Brain Creates Art and Dreams

   • Hans-Otto Thomashoff

   Pages 67-77

6. Co-morbidity in the Severely Mentally Ill: Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, Prevention and Intervention

   • H. L. Millar, I. Salloum, M. T. Abou-Saleh

   Pages 79-102

7. Unconventional Therapies

   • E. Mohandas, A. D’Souza, R. D’Souza

   Pages 103-108

8. Dual Disorders: Addiction and Other Mental Disorders. Integrating Mental Health

   • Néstor Szerman, Carlos Parro-Torres, Javier Didia-Attas, Nady El-Guebaly

   Pages 109-127

9. Accessible and Cost-Effective Mental Health Care Using E-Mental Health (EMH)

   • R. M. Krausz, D. Ramsey, F. Wetterlin, K. Tabiova, A. Thapliyal

   Pages 129-141

10. The Future of Psychiatry: Early Career Psychiatrists

    • Felipe Picon, Hussien Elkholy, Mariana Pinto da Costa, Prashanth Puspanathan, Takashi Nakamae, Florian Riese

    Pages 143-155

11. Sport Psychiatry: Aspects of a Developing Field

    • David Baron, Thomas Wenzel

    Pages 157-168

12. Family Inclusive Therapeutic Interventions

    • Akram Wilson, Samir Ibrahim, Massimo Clerici, Ester di Giacomo, Gabor Keitner

    Pages 169-185

13. Institutionalization, Deinstitutionalization, and the Penrose Hypothesis

    • Adrian P. Mundt, Norbert Konrad

    Pages 187-196

14. Biobanking for ‘Omics’ in Psychiatry: Logistical and Ethical Aspects

    • Fanny Aldinger, Laura Flatau, Vishwajit L Nimgaonkar, James B. Potash, Jana Strohmaier, Stephanie H. Witt et al.

    Pages 197-211

15. HIV as the Great Magnifier of Maladies: Challenges for Prevention and Compassionate Care

    • Mary Ann Adler Cohen, César A. Alfonso, Mohammad Tavakkoli, Getrude Makurumidze

    Pages 213-233

16. The Future of Psychoneuroimmunology: Promises and Challenges

    • Angelos Halaris, Karl Bechter, Ebrahim Haroon, Brain E. Leonard, Andrew Miller, Carmine Pariante et al.

    Pages 235-266

17. Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Practice: The Georgia Process and Model

    • Uriel Halbreich, Eka Chkonia, Nino Okribelashvili, Irina Karosanidze, Ketavan Goginashvili

    Pages 267-279

18. Mental Health Consequences of War Conflicts

    • Vsevolod Rozanov, Tanja Frančišković, Igor Marinić, Maria-Magdalena Macarenco, Marina Letica-Crepulja, Lana Mužinić et al.

    Pages 281-304

19. Challenges for Old Age Psychiatry

    • Gabriela Stoppe, Carlos Augusto de Mendonça Lima

    Pages 305-313

20. Advances in Treatment for Personality Disorders

    • Robert Biskin, Joel Paris

    Pages 315-328

This book is the newest edition on the series ‘advances in psychiatry’. The previous 3 volumes can be found online at http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=10&content_id=660 . They were highly successful in covering a broad area of psychiatry from different perspectives and angles and by reflecting both specialized but also international and global approaches. This series have guaranteed quality therefore can be used by different scientific groups for teaching and learning and also as a means for fast dissemination of advanced research and transformation of research findings into the everyday clinical practice. 

• public mental health
• social work
• mental health nursing
• genetics
• therapy

• The Medical Centre, Nuneaton, United Kingdom

  Afzal Javed

• Division of Neuroscience Medicine, Aristotle University, Division of Neuroscience Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Kostas N. Fountoulakis

Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis, MD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA University Hospital, in Thessaloniki, Greece. Dr. Fountoulakis received his medical degree (1989), performed his residency in psychiatry (1998), and earned his doctorate in psychiatry (1999) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received a 3-year fellowship in psychosomatic medicine and a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship for research from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece. Until 2003 he served as a medical officer in the Greek Armed forces retired with the rank of major. In 2005, Dr. Fountoulakis was a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuropsychiatry, at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.



Dr. Afzal Javed is a Consultant Psychiatrist at Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust at Nuneaton. He is an Honorary Clinical Associate Teacher at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick UK. He also holds the position of Chairman Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre, Fountain House, Lahore (Pakistan). He graduated from King Edward Medical College Lahore, Pakistan and received higher specialised training in Psychiatry from Pakistan and UK( from Royal Edinburgh Hospital, University of Edinburgh and Institute of Psychiatry & Maudsley Hospital London). He has served the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists as Deputy / Associate Registrar, member Board of International Affairs of the College, Chairman of West Midlands Division of the College & one of the lead College office bearers for SAS doctors & Pt & carers groups. He is also elected as executive committee member of the College Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry. His areas of special interest are Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Social and Transcultural Psychiatry and Psychiatric Research. His academic skills have been invaluable when publishing more than 100 scientific papers and being author of six books/monographs on different topics of psychiatry. He is currently involved in a number of projects on Schizophrenia and is completing audits in different clinical aspects of long term management of chronic mentally ill in the community.

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