Mental Illness category: 868 books
by The Blokehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
The reason why it has been confirmed that children can suffer from this debilitating mental health problem like adults can is because of the amount of research carried out. Nowadays as a result of this research tests are carried out which help medical professionals rule out the possibility that a...
Loss of Self in Psychosis
Psychological Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In Loss of Self in Psychosis: Psychological Theory and Practice Simon Jakes takes a critical look at contemorary approaches to the psychology of psychosis. In doing so, he explores how these vastly different approaches, as well as our numerous conceptualisations of schizophrenia, work to reduce the...
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences - Therapist Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2019
Prolonged Exposure Therapy is an effective, highly flexible, and very well researched intervention to reduce the symptoms of PTSD across a variety of traumatized populations. The second edition of Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences, Therapist Guide,...
by Harvey L. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and deconstructed. This book presents a synthesis of relational and archetypal psychology, trauma and dissociation...
by Susan Anthony-Tolbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This is a story of a young woman who faces the challenges of growing up with a brother whose mental disorder presents as menacing, violent and angry. Family life is centered on his maintenance and on avoiding confrontations that would hurl him into one of his “Moments!” Daily life with Brian and...
Invisble Wounds
History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Its Effects
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
The author provides some of the earliest research of post traumatic stress disorder and it origins. Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud research of homeless women provided the first clinical diagnoses of people who had been abused or traumatized. Charcot and Freud called the diagnosed disorder hysteria,...
by Patty Ann
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
From suicide, relationships, dating, divorce, creativity, spirituality and mental health matters, plus much more. This 4-book bundle does not hold back. Candid conversations concerning everyday life issues that challenge folks with bipolar-and their relations- are openly discussed.
These guidebooks...
Language and Schizophrenia
Perspectives from Psychology and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Schizophrenia is one of the most enigmatic mental disorders, and language is one of its most essential and distinctive traits. Language and Schizophrenia provides a complete overview of schizophrenic language, utilising both psychological and philosophical perspectives to explore the unique way language...
by Caleb Lack
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In this book, clinical psychologist and professor Dr. Caleb Lack introduces readers to the class of mental health problems known as the anxiety disorders. Covering what we know about each of the specific disorders across eight areas (DSM-IV critiera, changes expected in DSM-5, associated features, presentation...
His History, Her Story
A Survival Guide for Spouses of Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
“His History, Her Story” is the first book to explore the impact of male childhood sexual abuse on adult relationships. Aimed at helping both the partners of trauma survivors, and mental health professionals, the book is written from the unique perspective of Dr. Debra Warner, the leading American...
He Wanted the Moon
The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
**Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner
A Washington Post Best Book of 2015
A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own.**
Texas-born...
by Roz Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Bipolar disorder affects 5.7 million adult Americans every year. Since the 1970s, several studies have shown a correlation between creativity in writers, musicians, and artists, and people with bipolar disorder or manic-depressive illness. In Creative Journey of Bipolar Disorder, Roz Long shares the...
by Nepomuk Onderdonk
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
A fan of great literature, one of my favorite genres over the years has been the memoirs of schizophrenics, divided into the one kind where the patient just got over, or is hoping to get over, the illness, and then the other kind, the memoir written from deep within the floridly psychotic mind, happy...
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
This account of growing up with a mentally ill mother “belongs on a shelf of classic memoirs, alongside The Liars’ Club and Angela’s Ashes” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
As an NPR correspondent, Jacki Lyden visited some dangerous war zones—but her childhood was a war zone...