Tullio Giraldi Books

Exploring the intersection of Zen Buddhism and mental health, this book examines how Zen principles can enhance Western clinical practices. It highlights Buddhism's core belief that reality is a mental construct, a notion supported by neuroscience. While traditional psychiatry and psychology strive to alleviate suffering, they often overlook the complexity of mental health issues. The book aims to demonstrate how Zen can provide valuable insights and strategies to address these challenges, promoting a deeper understanding of mental well-being.

The book explores the evolution of mindfulness from its Buddhist roots to contemporary applications in mental health and performance enhancement. It starts by defining mindfulness and traces Buddhism's influence in the West, particularly through Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). In its latter chapters, the text addresses critical issues surrounding mindfulness, including the erosion of Buddhism's moral values and the commercialization of psychological struggles in a capitalist context.

This book examines existing treatments, legislation and research methodology of depression and exposes their limitations, championing psycho-social support as an alternative. Depression, affecting 350 million people according to the World Health Organisation, is almost invariably diagnosed by the criteria of the American Psychiatric Association – a definition which encompasses those with normal emotional responses to stressful life events. Tullio Giraldi discusses recent developments in popular and academic dialogue related to the use of antidepressants and recent increases in depression diagnosis and laments the rise in prescribing antidepressants despite their links to suicide and unfulfilled promises of efficacy and safety. He argues that psychotherapy is a cost effective treatment devoid of drugs' adverse effects. This work presents psycho-social support as an alternative to antidepressants, particularly for less severe cases, and as a more effective strategy for coping with the emotional challenges of today’s global reality. Patients, students of medicine and psychology, and professionals of mental health will find this work valuable.

A class of antitumor agents is discussed in 16 papers, which include explorations of the synthesis, chemical properties, biotransformation, and pharmacokinetics in animals and humans, and studies of analogous agents and substances affecting the mechanism of triazenes. Specific topics include antimetastatic action, immune responses, xenogenization, clinical use, and therapeutic considerations. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.