Handbook of Psychiatry Volume 5

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 Alger,Heinz L. Ansbacher, E. James Anthony, Kenneth Appel,Jack Bemporad, Jules R. Bemporad,Therese Benedek,Viola W. Bernard, Donald A. Bloch,Henry Brill,Robert N. Butler,Nancy Datan,Katrina De Hirsch,Marvin G. Drellich,Abraham Edel,Leon Edel,Henri F. Ellenberger,James L. Foy,Eugene A. Friedmann,Richard A. Gardner, Kurt Goldstein,Ralph R. Greenson,Harry Guntrip,Joseph L. Henderson,John W. Higgins, Irene M. Josselyn, Bernard Kaplan,Kenneth Keniston, Nolan D. C. Lewis,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,Ludwig von Bertalanffy,Eilhard Von Domarus, and Ian Stevenson.

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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.