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Publisher
Health Communications Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In April of 2016, Adam Smith found himself at rock bottom after a yearslong struggle with debilitating anxiety and searing physical pain. His search for the right diagnosis and treatment for his mental and physical pain lasted over six years and over a hundred different healthcare systems. He had to deal with the stigma of mental health issues, but ultimately learned that life isn't about finding a quick fix; it's about learning who you are and understanding...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The acclaimed author of The Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychic pain and the role of the gifted healer in the journey back to health. "To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal." In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of suffering, Kay Jamison writes about what makes an effective healer, and the role of imagination and memory in the regeneration of the mind. From the trauma of the bloodiest...
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Language
English
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Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, healthy, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating, transformative look at the therapeutic powers of psychedelic drugs, particularly in the treatment of PTSD, and the past fifty years of scientific, political, and legal controversy they have ignited, by award-winning journalist Tom Shroder"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Mental health problems affect one in five of us every year, and many of these conditions first affect people during their teenage years. Anxiety disorders, depression and other forms of mental illness are highly distressing and confusing for the person who experiences them, and for their families and friends too. Thankfully, there are effective treatments, so the sooner someone seeks help and receives a diagnosis, the sooner they can be helped and...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"If you have a body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB)--such as hair pulling or skin picking--you may be reluctant to seek help due to feelings of shame or embarrassment. But you should know that you are not alone, and there are proven-effective strategies you can use right now to manage these behaviors and improve your life. This step-by-step guide will help you successfully overcome your BFRB"--
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume Prequel
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ricky Desmond has been through all this before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn't belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program--a program that the warden claims will...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common mental health problems, specialists argue over whether the answers lie in the persons biology, their psychology or their circumstances. As a cognitive neuropsychiatrist, Anthony David brings together many fields of enquiry, from social and cognitive psychology to neurology. The key for each patient might be anything from a traumatic memory to a...
Author
Publisher
Saraband
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this ground-breaking new book, Jan Cameron brings together in a direct, accessible way the ever-more-popular topics of gardening and mental health. It distils a lifetime's experience working with gardens and those in mental distress. Further, the author shows how the cycles of the growing year act as both powerful metaphor and actual healing mechanism for states of mental ill health. Jan is a passionate advocate for the principles of organic growing...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A sweeping history of American psychiatry-from jails to hospitals to the lab to the analyst's couch-by the award-winning author of Madness in Civilization. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind-the sorts of things that were once called "madness"-have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, reveals, the path to legitimacy for "the black sheep of medicine" has been anything but smooth. Here, Dr. Lieberman traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late blooming maturity--beginning after World...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go--these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also sought to make sense of it through religion or the supernatural, or by constructing psychological or social explanations in...
16) A common struggle: a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles. On May 5, 2006, the New York Times ran two stories, 'Patrick Kennedy Crashes Car into Capitol Barrier' and then, several hours later, 'Patrick Kennedy Says He'll Seek Help for Addiction.'...
17) Mental illness
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Mental Illness: Is Mental Illness a Serious Problem?; How Should Society Address Mental Illness?; What Mental Health Issues Do Youths Face Today?; What Treatments for Mental Illness Are Effective?"--
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It's now known as New York City's Roosevelt Island. Originally called Blackwell's Island, it housed a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse and almshouse in the 19th century. This book re-creates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what constituted therapy and charity in the nineteenth century"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, reveals, the path to legitimacy for "the black sheep of medicine" has been anything but smooth. Here, Dr. Lieberman traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late blooming maturity--beginning after World...
20) The mind and the moon: my brother's story, the science of our brains, and the search for our psyches
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1960s, JFK declared that science would take us to the moon. He also declared that science would make the "remote reaches of the mind accessible" and cure psychiatric illness with breakthrough medications. We were walking on the moon within the decade. But today, psychiatric cures continue to elude us-as does the mind itself. Why is it that we still don't understand how the mind works? What is the difference between the mind and the brain?...
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