Mental Health category: 18328 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Problem gambling is a recognised mental disorder and a significant public health issue internationally. A Clinician’s Guide to Working with Problem Gamblers introduces the reader to the concept of problem gambling as an illness, it describes the current gambling habits and explores the way problem...
Sleep and Grow Healthy
Dream Your Way to a Healthy, Happy Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Are you struggling with your weight? Your moods? Your motivation? Is life just not quite the picture of balance and bliss you wish it could be?
We’re finally waking up to the importance of sleep. The latest research shows just how vital a role quality sleep plays in protecting against diseases,...
by Susan Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of schizophrenia—now reissued with a new postscript—follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness.
“Sylvia Frumkin” was born in 1948 and began showing...
Mom, Mania, and Me
Surviving and Changing a Volatile Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Life with Diane Dweller’s mother Dixie is unpredictable, especially during the jubilant part of her periodic spells. Dixie hosts large parties, impulsively buys cars and houses, and speeds everywhere. Unfortunately, her spells sometimes include explosive anger. The vivid description of the impact...
by Leif Gregersen
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
I am a 44-year-old author of fiction and non-fiction. The first book I wrote was "Through the Withering Storm" which was about my life with bipolar disorder, a crippling mental illness that seemed to take everything I loved in life away from me. I lost friends, relationships, the comforts...
Capture
Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, New York Times bestselling author Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range...
by Lidiya K
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Inside the book you’ll find the 10 mental habits that I consider most important for this mindset change.Becoming aware of them and starting to work on them (slowly, focusing on one at a time) can help you turn your life from negative to positive, and feel confident every step of the way.I’ve...
by Richard Carlson Jr
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Richard Carlson Jr. was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when he was twenty-one years of age. His illness first manifested when he was an early adolescent. Modern psychiatry greatly failed Richard for over a decade. Then, after an incident involving the police, he truly understood that his diagnosis...
Insane
America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have...
Bipolar God
Understanding God's Link to Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
"Bipolar God" is a narrative identifying the link between the Christian God and mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. It uses relationships established in the Bible by God and look at different decisions that He made as evidence to support its claims. While...
by Warren Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Power Of Mental Imagery
by Warren Hilton
In the preceding volume of this Course, entitled "The Trained Memory," you learned that the memory process involves four elements, Retention, Recall, Recognition and Imagination; and the scope and operation of two of these elements, Retention...
by M. B. Manthe
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Sometimes I think summer has its own / pattern after all, some weirdly repeated // series of actions, happenings, heartbeats, / and mental breakdowns.
These are the first lines of “Road Work,” the poem that opens this collection and sets the tone for the rest of the book. The poems are...
Inside Out
The Social Meaning of Mental Retardation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
‘We have to assume that the mind is working no matter what it looks like on the outside. We can’t just judge by appearance…If you take away the label they are human beings.’ Ed Murphy
What does it mean to be ‘mentally retarded’? Professors Bogdan and Taylor have interviewed two...
Consciousness, Language, and Self
Psychoanalytic, Linguistic, and Anthropological Explorations of the Dual Nature of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Consciousness, Language, and Self proposes that the human self is innately bilingual. Conscious mind includes two qualitatively distinct mental processes, each of which uses the same formal elements of language differently. The "mother tongue," the language of primordial consciousness, begins in utero...