Mental Health list 90

How Shostakovich Changed My Mind

by Stephen Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019

A powerful look at the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness, including author Stephen Johnson's struggle with bipolar disorder. BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich’s music during Stalin’s reign of terror, and writes of...

Get Me Out of Here

My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

by Rachel Reiland
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009

With astonishing honesty, this memoir reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones. With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals...

The Freud Wars

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

by Lavinia Gomez
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005

The Freud Wars offers a comprehensive introduction to the crucial question of the justification of psychoanalysis. Part I examines three powerful critiques of psychoanalysis in the context of a recent controversy about its nature and legitimacy: is it a bankrupt science, an innovative science,...

Madness and Blake's Myth

by Paul Youngquist
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990

This book offers the first systematic study of madness and its significance for the poetry of William Blake. Blake's reputation as an artist was long clouded by suspicions of madness. Although the great victory of his modern critics has been to see his work clearly, unobstructed by this prejudice,...

Shock

by Kitty Dukakis, Larry Tye
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007

Kitty Dukakis has battled debilitating depression for more than twenty years. Coupled with drug and alcohol addictions that both hid and fueled her suffering, Kitty?s despair was overwhelming. She tried every medication and treatment available; none worked for long. It wasn?t until she tried electroconvulsive...

Brain in Pain

A Wounded Healer’s Heart-Wrenching and Heart-Warming Guide to Schizophrenia

by Peter Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012

Brain in Pain gives a first-hand view of the world of schizophrenia and challenges the stigma surrounding mental illness. Written by Peter Cohen, Brain in Pain is an invaluable window into his compelling world. Both candid and vivid, Cohen describes his experience of living and coping with a psychosis....

Positive Illusions

by Steven Carley
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013

“Positive Illusions” are gaps in reality which traditionally define mental illness. Could it be perhaps these gaps in reality may possess of a positive benefit in regards to an increase in self-esteem? Two arguments exist one stating balanced self-evaluations are simply a sign of depression and...

Yoga for Grief Relief

Simple Practices for Transforming Your Grieving Mind and Body

by Antonio Sausys, MA, CMT
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

If you’ve experienced loss, you may feel intense emotional or even physical pain. In fact, it’s not uncommon for grieving people to experience depression, anxiety, fatigue, and a variety of other physical, mental, and spiritual symptoms. If you’ve tried other ways to move beyond your loss but...

The Power of the Mind: How I Beat OCD

How I Beat OCD

by Jeremy Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Jeremy Bennett is a motivational speaker, mentalist, and entertainer who has appeared in television series filmed in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. In this book he speaks out for the first time about his struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder. At the age of twelve, he developed a severe case...

Learning About Drinking

by Eleni Houghton, Anne M. Roche
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

This book is based on the premise that drinking behaviors are primarily learned. The contributors to the book explore the complex array of individual and social factors that impact the development of drinking patterns. They traverse family and culture influences, and the role played by schools, government,...

Memory: Awakening the Giant Within

by Ian McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012

Your brain is the most incredible thing in the known universe. It is a sleeping giant waiting to be awoken. It is the greatest thing in creation that you can andmust nurture.This book will help you to nurture and improve dramatically Nature (or God’s ) greatest gift – your mind. Memory...

The Up And Down Life

The Truth About Bipolar Disorder--the Good, the Bad, and the Funny

by Paul E. Jones, Andrea Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008

A fresh, honest, and practical guide to living with bipolar disorder. Paul Jones, a stand-up comedian and workshop leader who suffers from bipolar disorder, uses humor, honesty, and hard-won practical advice to dispel the stigma surrounding mental illnesses and shed light on the challenges...

Anxiety Disorders

The Caregivers

by Ken Strong
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003

Given the terrors of the time we live in, it should not surprise us that according to the World Health Organization anxiety disorders and depression are the fastest growing mental health problems in the world. In spite of this unfortunate trend there have been few resources available to the support persons...

The Jokes On Us/The Innocent Mind

by George Christophe
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011

The Jokes On Us/The Innocent Mind There has never been a book that exposes the reality and facts of anxiety disorders, for as far back as memory serves this obsessive dilemma has plagued people around the world and became a social stigma forcing families to hide the truth of any family member...