A bold new view of the human psyche, integrating Eastern and Western approaches.

Section Contents: Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence: Parts I and II. Eating disorders. The DSM-IV multiaxial system. Family/relational problems. Cultural issues.

Intended for anyone attempting to find their way through the large and confusingly interwoven philosophical literature on consciousness, this reader brings together most of the principal texts in philosophy (and a small set of related key works ...

This book considers language within the framework of modern evolutionary theory, emphasising its social bases.

Spanning the fields of pediatric medicine, pediatric neurology, and child and adolescent psychiatry, "Textbook of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry" is the definitive resource on all aspects of pediatric neuropsychiatry. Written by world-renowned experts ...

Pattini—goddess, virgin, wife, and mother; folk deity of Sinhala Buddhists and Jains; and assimilated goddess of the Hindu pantheon—has been worshiped in Sri Lanka and South India for fifteen hundred years or more, as she still is today. This ...