Mental Illness category: 868 books
Clinician's Guide to PTSD, Second Edition
A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This practitioner's guide, now thoroughly updated, examines the nature of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and provides a complete framework for planning and implementing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Steven Taylor addresses the complexities of treating people who have experienced different...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Originally published in 1978, the contributors to this volume, including the leading figures in experimental psychopathology, were largely concerned with deducing the behaviour of schizophrenics from general psychological theories of language, learning and cognition. Their emphasis on deduction reflected...
Ghosts in the Consulting Room
Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis is the first of two volumes that delves into the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning. The book uses clinical examples of people living in a state of liminality or ongoing melancholia. The authors reflect...
by Dr. Cheryl B. Lanktree, Dr. John N. Briere
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults is the first empirically-validated, multi-component manual to guide practitioners and students in the treatment of multi-traumatized adolescents and young adults. Best-selling author, John Briere, and renowned clinician, Cheryl Lanktree, outline...
Exiting the Extraordinary
Returning to the Ordinary World after War, Prison, and Other Extraordinary Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This book is an exploratory study, in sociological perspective, of the process of returning to the ordinary world after extraordinary experiences. Some people have transformative experiences in life that are so extraordinary that they cannot be at all adequately explained to those who have not had...
by Jennifer King
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Il carattere essenziale del Disturbo Schizotipico è una "modalità pervasiva di deficit sociale e interpersonale marcato da un disagio acuto e da una capacità ridotta di relazioni intime e da distorsioni cognitive o percettive ed eccentricità di comportamento. A ciò si aggiunge l'inclinazione a creare teorie illogiche che sono prevalentemente incostanti, magiche e misteriose.
Journey to the Edge of Texas
A Memoir of Love, Travel, Natural Beauty, Writing, and One Man's Battle With Bipolar Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This narrative tells of my odyssey through the wonders and beauties of Texas, a journey of heart, but the book also follows a parallel rail, a journey into the mind. I mostly wanted to offer something steeped in nature, outdoor recreation, and history. But the dark moods that interrupted my efforts...
On Conquering Schizophrenia
From the Desk of a Therapist and Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
On Conquering Schizophrenia addresses the topic of schizophrenia like never written. Author Robert Francis offers a revelatory and breakthrough paradigm regarding the relegation and defeat of schizophrenia hither yet present in the topical annals. In his conceptualization, Francis offers both a theoretical...
by Michaël Coulanjon
Language: French
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Témoignage. Après avoir écrit « Voyage d’un schizophrène, en passant par Le Caire », Michaël, schizophrène affectif paranoïaque avec tendances aux délires mystiques, poursuit son voyage initiatique et spirituel. C’est au cœur de la Provence qu’il fera ses premiers pas de chrétien,...
Wounds into Wisdom
Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Intergenerational trauma is an emerging subject of great interest and scientific study
Acclaimed author has been previously published by major houses and is a leader in the International Jewish Renewal Movement and the current co-chair for the North American Rabbinic Call for Human Rights....
How I Triumphed Over Multiple Traumas
With A Smile on my Face
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Over the past 9 decades Ernie Nullmeyer has had his share of mountain top experiences but along with them came many deep valleys. The devastating, often painful vicissitudes of his life would have overwhelmed most people. But Ernie learned that the secret to a joyful, effervescent, meaningful life...
by Dr.King
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
This book gives a clear insight into various aspects of Yoga, while providing scientifically backed explanation about how various Yoga processes achieve their intended purposes and why they are designed that way. Such clarity is essential to understand Yoga in a more scientific manner and to realize...
Violent Offenders and Their Victims
Restorative Justice through Mediation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Violent Offenders and Their Victims is a holistic and human exploration of the nature of violence and its genesis. Chad C. Breckenridge provides a complete psychoanalytic, child developmental, and neurobehavioral understanding of empathic failure and violence. Breckenridge reviews current thinking...
by Pamela V. Valentine
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The following article is based on materials presented at the Proceedings of the Tenth National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work (1998).
Statement of the Research Problem
Conducted in the Tallahassee Federal Correction Institute (FCI) in Florida, this experimental outcome study...