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The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do

30 reviews
John M. Oldham, Lois B. Morris

Bantam, 1995

A True Self Portrait
I love this assessment and the information it reveals. I would like it even better if it was on line. :-)

Electrical Safety and the Law
Ken Oldham-Smith, John M. Madden

Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

This book summarises the British legislation covering electrical safety, including those regulations derived from European directives. It also addresses the legislation relating to the supply and use of safety-related electrotechnical control systems, particularly on machinery. As well as describing the legal framework, and the main legal duties and applicable standards, the book describes electrical hazards and how they arise; the types of ...

American Psychiatric Press Review of Psychiatry

American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 1997

In order to maintain an up-to-date practice and provide patients with the best possible care, psychiatrists and health care professionals need access to the latest scientific research and newest advances in treatment. In the 16th volume of this vital reference series, more than 40 internationally and nationally recognized experts describe and evaluate the latest research, treatment, and diagnostic advances in the areas of cognitive therapy, ...

Personality Self-Portrait
John M. Oldham and Lois B. Morris

Bantam Books, 1990

A system for defining your personality style and understandingt the particular ways it affects six key omains of you life: your relationships and love life: you work: your self-image: your emotianal life: your self-control, impulses, and appetites: you sense of reality and of spirituality.

Textbook of Hospital Psychiatry
Steven S. Sharfstein, Faith B. Dickerson, ...

American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2008

As the first comprehensive guide to be published in more than a decade, the Textbook of Hospital Psychiatry is a compilation of the latest trends, issues, and developments in the field of hospital psychiatry. The textbook, written by 70 national experts and clinical specialists, covers a wide range of clinical and administrative topics that are central to psychiatric practice today. The book contains information not generally available in other ...

The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Personality Disorders

1 review

American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2005

An authoritative review, and a very precious Compendium.
Personality traits, styles, and disorders are a very complex domain in the Behavioral Sciences. Personality Disorders are currently still catalogued as Axis II disorders in the DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000). Soon we will be blessed by the 5th edition of the DSM. Personality disorders are planned to be one of the hottest topic in the new edition. Diagnoses will change. Criteria will be added (and ...

The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Guide to Me

2 reviews

Holt Paperbacks, 1995

Superb reference
This is a book written in easy to understand terms, that takes away much of the fear-out-of-ignorance associated with mental illness. It has the potential of taking the reader from a state of ignorance to the level of being able to take a first crack at diagnosis.

Impulsivity and Compulsivity

1 review

American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 1996

interesting book
Unique work about impulsive/compulsive psychopathology, treatment, differential diagnosis & comorbidity. Couldn't stop reading it.

Complete Home Guide to Mental Health (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)
Frederic Kass, John M. Oldham

Henry Holt & Co, 1992

A comprehensive reference for the layperson describes all aspects of mental health problems and their treatments, providing scientific background on each disorder, insight into different therapies, and self-help suggestions. 20,000 first printing.