Handbook of Psychiatry Volume 4

Among the disciplines which are growing at the most accelerated pace is psychiatry, and understandably so. Intimately involved with psychology, general biology, neurology, sociology, cultural changes of any kind, it is constantly enriched by these fields and many others, which all converge toward a greater knowledge of man in health and mental illness.This Book is edited by Javad Nurbakhsh, Thomas Szasz, Hamideh Jahangiri, Silvano Arieti,Haraton Davidian,Levon Davidian,Ian Stevenson, Ian Alger,Heinz L. Ansbacher, E. James Anthony,Kenneth Appel,Theodore Lidz,Harold I. Lief,Bruce Mazlish,Rev. James R. MacColl, R. E. Money-Kyrle,George Mora,Wendell S. Muncie, Simon H. Nagler, Bernice L. Neugarten,Daniel Offer,Harold L. Orbach, E. Mansell Pattison,Isidore Portnoy,John D. Rainer,Earl Witenberg,Milton Wittman,Joseph Wolpe,Anatol Rapoport,Paul Ricoeur,Alfred H. Rifkin,Alan K. Rosenwald,Joseph F. Rychlak,Melvin Sabshin, David E. Schecter,Edward C. Senay,Natalie Shainess,William M. Sheppe, Cyril Sofer, John A. Sours, Rose Spiegel, Alberta Szalita, Ludwig von Bertalanffy,Eilhard Von Domarus. Joseph B. Wheelwright,Jules R. Bemporad,Therese Benedek,Viola W. Bernard,Donald A. Bloch,Henry Brill.

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Javad Nurbakhsh, professor de psiquiatria na Escola de Medicina de Teerão Univ., director do Conselho Médico Iraniano, presidente da Associação Iraniana de Psiquiatras, chefe do Hospital Psiquiátrico de Ruzbeh. Membro honorário da Associação Americana de Psiquiatras. Supervisor do Congresso Mundial de Psiquiatria da Associação Psiquiátrica Mundial.