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Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders.

These include various abnormalities related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions.

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, embracing all aspects of conscious and unconscious experience as well as thought.

It is an academic discipline and a social science which seeks to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.

Mental health is a level of psychological well-being, or an absence of mental illness.

It is the "psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment".

From the perspective of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life, and create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.

Self-help or self-improvement is a self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis.

Many different self-help group programs exist, each with its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders.

Concepts and terms originating in self-help culture and Twelve-Step culture, such as recovery, dysfunctional families, and codependency have become firmly integrated in mainstream language.

Guilford Publications, Inc. is a New York City-based independent publisher founded in 1973 that specializes in publishing books, journals, software, and DVDs in psychology, psychiatry, the behavioral sciences, education, and geography.

The firm is owned by its two founding partners, president Bob Matloff and editor-in-chief Seymour Weingarten.