Mental Health category: 18328 books
by Mariah Middleton-Rackliff
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
A Room without Walls is a memoir detailing my life after being diagnosed with a series of mental disorders. The memoir's narrative is stream of consciousness and poetry. The audiences I hope to reach with this novel are those who have mental illness, addiction, and those who have loved ones afflicted...
Breaking Into My Life
Growing Up with a Bipolar Parent and My Battle to Reclaim Myself
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
“I heard he was just diagnosed with a mental illness. Can you believe that?” The speaker is laughing so hard she can hardly get the words out. “That sure explains a lot.”
Oh my God, I think to myself. *They could be laughing about my mother. *
In some ways things have not...
Saving Normal
An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
International Bestseller • "An extraordinarily important book." —Marcia Angell, Harvard Medical School
A deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality, by "one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists" (The Atlantic)
Anyone living...
Motivation: Holistic Fitness: How to Develop Your Emotional Muscles to Achieve Success & Happiness in All Areas of Life
Motivation, Motivational Books, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
How to Develop Your Emotional & Mental Muscles to Become Unstoppable and Achieve Success in All Areas of Life
Simple Yet Powerful Mindset Strategies That Anyone Can Master!
You are just about to discover how to achieve a lifestyle you have always wanted and create a new, stronger...
by Sonia Austrian
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
Written for social workers by a social worker, Mental Disorders, Medications, and Clinical Social Work discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common mental disorders. Looking at disorders from an ecosystems perspective, Austrian goes beyond a linear classification...
by Anita Vestal and Diane Schuman
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This lighthearted look at simple, practical ways to start the process of forgiving someone is written for anyone and everyone. The delightful and whimsical illustrations add humor to a sometimes heavy subject.
The book starts with a brief response to the question of 'Why Forgive?' addressing some...
by Monica A. Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
How have individuals with mental illness been treated historically and what are their experiences today? This book investigates the historical and contemporary forms of discrimination faced by those with mental illness.
• Provides a valuable resource for researching the hot topic of discrimination...
Memoir of a Journey with Mental Illness
Treading Water
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
M.S. Burke was only nineteen years old when she inexplicably tried to kill herself.
It made no sense: She lived a privileged life of yacht clubs, tennis lessons, private schools, and summers in Canada. If you named it, she had it, including an incredible familywith three sisters she adored...
by William George Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This is William George Jordan's 1909 work, "The Crown of Individuality". This volume deals with the importance of individuality and explores the ways in which it can affect one's life and general happiness. A timeless guide to mental training for self-betterment, "The Crown of Individuality"...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness.
Why do I feel bad? There is real power in understanding our bad feelings. With his classic Why We Get Sick, Dr. Randolph...
Ben Behind His Voices
One Family's Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
When readers first meet Ben, he is a sweet, intelligent, seemingly well-adjusted youngster. Fast forward to his teenage years, though, and Ben's life has spun out of control. Ben is swept along by an illness over which he has no control—one that results in runaway episodes, periods of homelessness,...
by Meir Perlow
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The ways in which an individual (the subject) relates to and perceives other people (his or her 'objects') has always been a preoccupation of psychoanalysis and in recent years a plethora of concepts has grown up in the literature. In this ground-breaking study, Meir Perlow sets out to clarify the...
Thomas S. Szasz
The Man and His Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
As it entered the 1960s, American institutional psychiatry was thriving, with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961, The Myth of Mental Illness, the psychiatric world was thrown into chaos.
Szasz enlightened the...
Darkness Is My Only Companion
A Christian Response to Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Where is God in the suffering of a mentally ill person? What happens to the soul when the mind is ill? How are Christians to respond to mental illness? In this brave and compassionate book, theologian and priest Kathryn Greene-McCreight confronts these difficult questions raised by her own mental...