Mental Health category: 18328 books
Rethinking Positive Thinking
Inside the New Science of Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
“The solution isn’t to do away with dreaming and positive thinking. Rather, it’s making the most of our fantasies by brushing them up against the very thing most of us are taught to ignore or diminish: the obstacles that stand in our way.”
So often in our day-to-day lives we’re inundated...
The Spiritual Gift of Madness
The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of the Mad Pride Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A bold call for the “insane” to reclaim their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural transformation
• Explains how many of those diagnosed as schizophrenic, bipolar, and other forms of “madness” are not ill but experiencing a spiritual awakening
• Explores the...
The History of Mental Illness in Criminal Cases: The English Tradition
The Role of Mental Illness in Criminal Trials
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Connie Neil
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Threatened for the second time after fifty years of freedom with forced electroshock, I wrote my 57,361-word non-fiction ‘AFTERSHOCK’ on psychiatry’s expanding portals that include elder restraint and the DSM inroads that characterize as mental illness our natural life events.
This is my experience...
by Danny Ray Christian
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche A great tragedy of modern-day life is the fact that we seek a how to live before we have a why to live and we teach our children how to live without helping them first discover a why to live for, not knowing that when they and...
by MJ Holman
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Spanning thirty years, this collection of poetry and prose documents the discovery of mental illness through writing. It charts the slow crawl of mental decline and the gradual realisation this illness is a background noise that cannot be ignored.It is not a volume defined by mental illness alone;...
The Political Self
Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
This book explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing, and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can both contribute to and enrich our understanding of these wider discussions. It therefore looks both inside and outside - indeed one...
Overcoming Depression
Personality Psychology: Mental Health, Happiness, Feeling Good, Self Esteem, Depression Cure
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
The depression is not just melancholy or sadness. Emptiness, fatigue, tensity, confusion, loss of sense of life, sense of hopelessness, the absence of connection with reality, lowered self-esteem – these are far not all symptoms of the depression. After all, it affects your thoughts, feelings, behavior,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Psychosocial Rehabilitation is a comprehensive ready- reference for mental health practitioners and students, providing practical advice on the full range of interventions for psychosocial rehabilitation. It contextualises the interventions described and provides pointers to enable the reader to explore...
by Aldo R. Pucci
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Do you want to learn how to effectively overcome lifes problems so that you can happily live a productive life?
Are you seeking to improve your mental well-being, reduce stress, and improve your physical health?
Feel the Way You Want to Feel No Matter What! teaches powerful and effective...
by Maggie Newcomb
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Maggie Newcomb had not just one, but three serious mental breakdowns, and in Chocolate Pudding in Heaven she takes you along on her candid journey from chaos and madness to stability and joy.Diagnosed with bipolar I disorder in her teens, Maggie cleverly reveals the mystery of the human brain...
by Kayla Croft
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Young Matt is bruised, abused and taught there is no room for tears. After his father dies he becomes suicidal. Saved by a miracle, he finds a love for life, then a woman to love. But not for long.
She wrecks their relationship, then tells him, "If I can't have you, no one else can. I will...
by Brad Coulbeck
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Are you finding it increasingly stressful keeping up with the relentless demands of the modern workplace? Are you strained from balancing your personal and professional life?
In The Resilient Mind you'll learn how to develop proven techniques to combat stress, develop mental toughness, and...
Weight Expectations
One Man's Recovery from Anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
As seen on ITV's Lorraine
Part memoir, part self-help guide, this witty book will take you through the day-to-day struggles of living with an eating disorder. Stand-up comedian Dave Chawner tells the story of how he became anorexic, what his life with mental illness was like, and how he started...