Psychotropic Drugs and Women or Finding the Energy to Heal

Psychotropic Drugs and Women: Fast Facts

Author: Victoria C Hendrick

Addressing the specific treatment needs of women, this new volume in our popular "Fast Facts" series is a practical clinical guide for dispensing physicians and mental health professionals who need to know the important risks and medication reactions unique to the female physiology. Readers will find information on all the key drug classes and prescription guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan of women, from reproduction through menopause and beyond.

Author Biography: Victoria Hendrick and Michael Gitlin live in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents:

	Abbreviations
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	General considerations in the psychopharmacological treatment of women	3
2	Gender differences in psychopharmacology	21
3	Depressive disorders	31
4	Bipolar disorder	71
5	Anxiety disorders and insomnia	107
6	Schizophrenia	131
7	Premenstrual dysphoric disorder	157
8	Eating disorders	167
9	Female reproductive hormones and the central nervous system	177
App. 1	Drug identification by generic name	187
App. 2	Drug identification by brand name	191
	Bibliography	195
	Index	219

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Finding the Energy to Heal: How EMDR, Hypnosis, TFT, Imagery, and Body-Focused Therapy Can Help Restore Mindbody Health

Author: Maggie Phillips

This ground-breaking book applies the principles of energy psychology and medicine to mindbody healing. The focus of Eastern healing is on correcting imbalance of disharmony so that qi, the life force energy that generates harmonious transformation in the body, can flow freely again. Using vivid examples, this book explores the possibility that psychological methods can be used in a similar way to address subtle energies in mindbody systems and thereby restore health.

The author has presented highly acclaimed seminars on Ericksonian and clinical hypnosis, imagery, and ego-state therapy. Here she adds EMDR, thought field therapy (TFT), and body-focused therapy to the tools that can open inner pathways to healing that have been frozen by stress, past trauma, and developmental issues. Throughout the book she emphasizes the principles of gathering and building on strengths that each client already owns, using tools that provoke energetic flow to dissolve barriers to health, and selecting strategies that utilize the powerful effects of positive expectancy.

In the first four sections, vivid, intriguing stories illustrate how EMDR, hypnosis, imagery, TFT, and body-focused therapy can be used to solve the mysteries of health crises triggered by general stresses and anxiety, posttraumatic stress, and the challenges of organic conditions such as cancer, head injury, arthritis, and cardiac disease. The final section presents three creative models for combining and integrating energy therapies to increase healing possibilities for individuals with complex health situations that do not respond to any one approach.

Finding the Energy to Heal is an especially useful guide for professionals interested in cutting-edge methodology as well as for readers seeking solutions to perplexing health challenges.

Booknews

Phillips (a psychologist in private practice) applies the principles of energy psychology and medicine to mind-body healing. She offers examples to explore the possibility that psychological methods can be used in connection to Eastern healing to address subtle energies in mind-body systems and therapy. She discusses Ericksonian and clinical hypnosis, imagery, ego-state therapy, EMDR, field therapy, and body- focussed therapy as they apply to the treatment of stress, trauma, and developmental conflicts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What People Are Saying

Ernest Rossi
The external mysteries of life and creativity in health and illness together with the most modern methods of exploring them are well illustrated in this admirable volume by Maggie Phillips." ---- Ernest Rossi, author of The Psychobiology of Gene Expression (forthcoming from W.W. Norton)

Fred P. Gallo
"Maggie Phillips is a highly accomplished psychologist and psychotherapist. In Finding the Energy to Heal, she expertly integrates the best of traditional practice with energetic approaches to emotional and physical healing. She also offers us useful strategies for when to choose and how to combine hypnosis, EMDR, ego-state therapy, somatic therapies, imagery, and TFT. An evolved perspective on energy psychology, this book is required reading for all therapists who take their craft seriously." ----Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D. Author of Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods

"In the last decade there has been a flurry of new power and energy therapies. Maggie Phillips leads the reader through this confusing maze with a rare combination of openness and critical analysis. Healer of body and soul, she also examines the tradition of body-oriented approaches in a way that redefines the therapeutic landscape. Clear case presentations and conceptual understandings will reward those who have little knowledge of energetic healing as well as those who are highly experienced. Readers at any level will benefit from her approach." ---- Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. Author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

Joan Borysenko
"Healing therapies are in a time of unprecedented change as the frontiers of neuroscience, energy medicine, and consciousness expand. Finding the Energy to Heal is a brilliant clinical guide to the best new therapeutic techniques that enable us to change, to grow, and to take advantage of the full potential of our bodies and minds. No therapist, or person interested in healing, can afford to be without this practical, compassionate and stunningly useful guide." ----Joan Borysenko, Ph.D Author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind