Mental Illness category: 868 books
by Steven Haymon Ed.D
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Stress is a condition most people know little about until its dramatic effects take charge of their lives. It can manifest itself in simple inappropriate behaviors towards ourselves or one another or reach the more intense impact through mood disorders, addictions and physical illnesses.
Using...
The Everything Health Guide to Schizophrenia
The latest information on treatment, medication, and coping strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2009
The effects of schizophrenia can be devastating for both the 3.3 million adults living with the disease as well as their families and friends. This guide offers help to those who suffer from schizophrenia and their loved ones, including information on how to:
Get a correct diagnosis
Understand...
by Robert T. Muller
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Winner, 2019 Written Media Award, International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation.
How to navigate the therapeutic relationship with trauma survivors, to help bring recovery and growth.
In therapy, we see how relationships are central to many traumatic experiences, but...
by Fredrike Bannink
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
A step-by-step guide to conducting successful solution-focused therapy for survivors of traumatic experiences.
This book aims to help therapists working with clients who struggle with trauma by offering them solution-focused (SF) viewpoints and skills. The book invites all professionals to...
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder
A Case Study and Contemporary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, remains controversial, despite its inclusion as an established diagnosis in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV). This book consists, first, of the detailed description of the treatment...
Nurturing Resilience
Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma--An Integrative Somatic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A practical, integrated approach for therapists working with people (both adults and children) who have been impacted by developmental trauma and attachment difficulties
Kathy L. Kain and Stephen J. Terrell draw on fifty years of their combined clinical and teaching experience to provide this...
by Francoise Davoine, Jean-Max Gaudilliere
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have uncovered the ways in which transference and countertransference are affected by the experience of social catastrophe. Handed down from one generation...
Oppression and the Body
Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A timely anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodies
Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to...
Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject
Historical Studies in Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject, however, seeks what has not been actualized in trauma studies – that is, how the necessity and unassailable intensity of trauma is fastened to its historical emergence....
Secret Bi-Polar
Finding out at Sixty Two
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Secret Bi-Polar is an informative nonfiction story about a divorced woman who has to start over while raising two teenagers alone. All three of them have bipolar/manic depressive disorder, and the daughter has borderline personality disorder. Their entire lives they have done impulsive and irrational...
Beyond His Mercy
An American Civil War Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The American Civil War claimed and destroyed lives, stealing fathers and sons from those they loved. The horror caused many returning to cry out for death. They carried the festering scars of battle and were unable to overcome the torment of their souls. This is the story of Thomas Wilson, a soldier...
Cop Doc
The Police Psychologist's Casebook--Narratives From Police Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Cop Doc delivers a unique map of police psychology. Retired NYPD sergeant Daniel Rudofossi delivers compelling inside scoops: the first-grade detective who nailed the Times Square bomber, intelligence enigmas unraveled by the DEA intelligence chief, wisdom culled from a best-selling novelist, a NYPD...
by Laural Hemenway
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Beautifully Broken, Seeing Beyond Trauma
This story is about life and death, but in reverse. It begins with a death and ends with a life. Both are Mine. On October 7, 2014, a part of me suddenly and violently died. More than two years after the events that occurred that day, I was diagnosed...
Insanity and Divinity
Studies in Psychosis and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
How close is spirituality to psychosis?
Covering the interrelation of psychosis and spirituality from a number of angles, Insanity and Divinity will generate dialogue and discussion, aid critical reflection and stimulate creative approaches to clinical work for those interested in the connections...