Gender and Psychopathology

Gender and Psychopathology
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Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : 0880485647
ISBN-13 : 9780880485647
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Book Synopsis Gender and Psychopathology by : Mary Violette Seeman

Download or read book Gender and Psychopathology written by Mary Violette Seeman and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Psychopathology explores the gender differences in psychiatric syndromes in terms of symptoms, courses of illness, epidemiology, and treatment responses. The book addresses the reasons for the differences from many competing and additive points of view by distinguished multidisciplinary contributors. This text includes comprehensive up-to-date DSM-IV categories of illness for the male-female differences in psychiatric disorders. Depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, eating disorders, somatoform disorders, sleep disorders, and addictions are among the topics explored. Those interested in specific issues can read particular chapters of interest because each chapter is complete in itself. This is the first book to explore gender differences in psychopathology. Gender and Psychopathology will be informative and useful to students, researchers, and mental health clinicians of all disciplines.

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