This guide to statistics for busy mental health professionals describes and applies concepts without mathematics, and includes examples from standard clinical practice. Fully revised and updated in a new edition and covering observational bias, randomization, clinical trials, the overuse of p-values, understanding effect sizes, meta-analysis.
S. Nassir Ghaemi Knihy
Nassir Ghaemi sa zameriava na hlbokú analýzu náladových ochorení, ako sú depresia a bipolárna porucha. Jeho práca prepája psychiatriu s filozofiou a verejným zdravím, aby osvetlil komplexnú povahu týchto stavov. S rozsiahlym akademickým zázemím a bohatými publikačnými aktivitami sa Ghaemi snaží čitateľom prinášať prenikavé vhľady do ľudskej mysle a psychických ochorení. Jeho prístup zdôrazňuje prepojenie klinickej praxe s hlbším filozofickým a sociálnym kontextom, čo čitateľom ponúka jedinečný pohľad na tieto zložité problémy.
A First-Rate Madness
Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, who runs the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts University Medical Center, draws from the careers and personal plights of such notable leaders as Lincoln, Churchill, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., JFK, and others from the past two centuries to build an argument that the very qualities that mark those with mood disorders- realism, empathy, resilience, and creativity-also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. By combining analysis of the historical evidence with the latest psychiatric research, Ghaemi demonstrates how he thinks these qualities have produced brilliant leadership under the toughest circumstances.individuals and society at large-however high the price for those who endure these illnesses.