Paul Guest
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English
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Whiting Award-winning and acclaimed poet Paul Guest's My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge is an audaciously brilliant collection-a compendium of honesty, strange beauty, and pain. Guest's first book, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World won the 2002 New Issues Prize in Poetry, and his second book, Notes for My Body Double, won the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness will be available...
Author
Language
English
Description
Employing accessible language throughout, this book covers the history of psychiatric research, the current state-of-the art in psychiatric practice, the physiological systems affected by psychiatric illnesses, the whole-body nature of these diseases and the impact that this aspect has on emerging biomarker discoveries.
Further, it provides descriptions of the major specific psychiatric disorders and the special challenges regarding the diagnosis...