Dr. Garcia-Camba has a selection of books on the application of psychiatry in mental diseases and disorders.
Society often tends to underestimate the importance of mental illnesses. However, the prevalence of these disorders continues to increase, while causing considerable effects on people’s health.
Some of the most common are depression, dementia, schizophrenia, developmental disorders or bipolar affective disorder. However, these problems can accompany other pathologies, or even derive the mental disorder from another disease.
Psychiatry on your shelf
Although in the face of any mental problem, the most sensible thing to do is to go to a specialist in psychiatry, nevertheless, if we are aware of the problems we are facing, it is always advisable to have information at hand at home.
Thus, Dr. García-Camba, a reference in the field of psychiatry, has three books on the market that could be of help in this regard. For example, published in 1998, there is Psychiatry and AIDS, aimed at updating the experience and knowledge firmly acquired on the usual clinical activity of psychiatry teams with patients. In addition, the human factor is studied, as this is the determining factor in the transmission of the infection.
The same philosophy is followed in Manual of Psycho-Oncology, in which Dr. García-Camba highlights the significant changes that have taken place in recent years in the treatment of cancer, thus modifying the clinical profile and prognosis of the patient, as well as the therapeutic and existential aspects. Thus, whereas in the past only the emotional aspects of the dying patient were considered, nowadays fundamental areas such as psychoimmunology, the patient’s quality of life, palliative care, psychological strategies for coping with cancer or the study of pain mechanisms have been developed.
Finally, there is Advances in Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Obesity, which answers fundamental questions about the development of eating disorders over the years. Thus, we address some of these aspects in which there have been major advances, and which may be of multidisciplinary interest.