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evaluating psychosocial interventions, and teaches courses in developmental/clinical child psychology and graduate courses in mental health (e.g., program evaluation, psychotherapy, ethics). She is the author of four books and over 100 research articles and book chapters. She is currently editor of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and serves on the editorial board of eight other journals.brAnne Marie Albano, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University. She has held positions as Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinical Research Service at the Child Study Center of New York University Medical Center, as an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Louisville, and as Assistant Director of the Phobia and Anxiety Disorders Clinic of the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Albano received her Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the SUNY Phobia Clinic. Dr. Albano has served in editorial positions for Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. She is the former Chair of the Continuing Education Issues Committee for AABT. Her main clinical and research interests are in the development and dissemination of empirically supported assessment and treatment protocols for youth. In addition to school refusal, she and her colleagues have developed cognitive behavioral treatment programs for social phobia, obsessive compulsive disorder, and mixed anxiety and depression.br  (less)

more accessible. Using many powerful case examples of the famous, the infamous, and the unknown, Digital Astrology clearly reveals the methodology of an ancient and very powerful forecasting system that is strictly numeric. The concept is uniquely riveting because, despite being thousands of years old, it nevertheless has to do with bit switches being turned on and off. Further, these bits are clustered into groups of eight which we now know as a modem byte of data. Finally, this information is uniquely presented not in an astrology chart but in spreadsheets. The applicability of its stark numerical clarity to career matters, relationships, health, childbirth, relocation, death, and more, will strongly stimulate serious astrologers throughout the West.BR-- First Western book written on the topicBR-- Features many people in the news, such as Princess Diana, President Clinton, Al Gore, Ross Perot, plus many client examples from the author's personal filesBR-- The author's first book The Astrology of Death received many extremely positive reviews -- including in the main newsletter of the Johns Hopkins University and Medical Center  (less)

gynecology, past president of the American Holistic Medical Association, and an internationally recognized speaker for women’s health and healing. She is also a former Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.brbrbriFrom the Trade Paperback edition./ibSpeaking Our Truth/bbrbrDuring the month after this book was initially published, I had a series of nightmares that someone was in my bedroom about to kill me. For five consecutive nights I woke up screaming in terror, scaring my children as well as myself. My dreams were my not-so-subtle inner guidance system letting me know how terrified a part of me was to actually put what I knew out into the world. I was shocked by the power of this fear. Though I'd known intellectually that many women have a wall of fear within them that arises when they dare to speak their truth, I hadn't realized how much of that fear I also shared. I dreaded going to the hospital for the regular OB/GYN meeting in June 1994, after the book went on sale, because I was sure that my colleagues would reject me and my work. Until then I had lived a professional double life: One part of me told patients what I really believe, in the privacy of my personal office, and the other part, the "official" me, held back a bit (or a lot) in the hospital or around many colleagues.brbrMy socialization as a doctor had taught me well what was acceptable to my colleagues and the hospital staff. I'd been treading a fine line for years. In fact, back in 1980, right after the birth of my first child and before I took my oral exams for board certification in OB/GYN, I was featured in a cover stor@/³33333ÿ¾Û€  (less)

basic element of the brain, but developments in cognitive science now challenge the neurobiologist to understand the function of neural networks, perhaps one of the most difficult problems of the mind. This monograph articulates the ways in which neurobiologic discoveries can be interpreted in terms of psychological memory.br /br /The brain mechanisms of learning and memory have been extensively studied by both neuroscientists and psychologists in recent years. Here Gary Lynch outlines the main issues in this dialogue: using the olfactory cortex and related hippocampus as examples, he discusses the physiological and chemical process involved in producing long-term memory and the anatomical organization of the neuronal circuitries in which they are stored. Then, combining these arguments, Lynch arrives at a series of postulates about the dynamics of the formation, association, and recall of memory representations in cortical networks. An evolutionary theme concerning the origins of the hypothesized organizations and processes runs throughout the monograph.br /br /Commenting on some of these ideas, Gordon Shepherd (Yale University) takes up the ways particular aspects of cortical cells, the apical dendrites of pyramidal cells, can be active in storing information. Ira Black (Cornell University Medical College) discusses the biochemical mutability of individual neurons and how this must be taken into account in modeling the way neural cells support mnemonic processes. A general discussion of cortical morphology and memory is provided by Herbert Killackey (University of California, Irvine).br /br /Gary Lynch is at the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of Cali@p£×=qÿ¾Û€  (less)

in such groups may have positive long-term effects on patients' interpersonal functioning and clinical stability. This volume provides a complete guide to the multifamily psychoeducational approach. .Also covered in depth are applications of the model to a variety of other contexts and disorders, including bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, borderline personality disorder, and medical illness.br/divDIVWilliam R. McFarlane , Dept. of Psychiatry , Maine Medical Center , Portland.br/div  (less)

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