Pathological Psychology category: 903 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Psychosis in Childhood and Adolescence offers an in-depth examination of the nature of psychosis, its risk factors and its manifestations in children and adolescents who experience a continuum of emotional disorders. The chapters present a hopeful, research-based framework for treatment. They emphasize...
Anders als die anderen
Was die Seele unserer Kinder krank macht
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Jedes Kind kann es treffen. Nicht nur solche aus Risikofamilien, sondern auch Kinder aus intakten Elternhäusern können Opfer seelischer Erkrankungen werden. ADHS und Schizophrenie, Depressionen und Essstörungen sind Ausdruck schwerer psychischer Störungen. Doch ebenso gibt es "normale" kindliche...
by Andreas Maercker
Language: German
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Der Band gibt eine Übersicht über den Begriff "Trauma“, die psychische Krankheit "Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung" (PTBS) und verwandte Diagnosen wie die "Anpassungsstörung“ und die "Anhaltende Trauerstörung“. In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist das Wissen über die...
Burnout
Ursachen, Formen, Auswege
Language: German
Release Date: February 20, 2012
«Müde, erschöpft, ausgebrannt» – wenn Arbeitsbelastungen zum Dauerzustand anwachsen, sprechen Berufstätige von «Burnout», und jeder versteht, was gemeint ist. Lässt sich Burnout aber auch wissenschaftlich definieren, und wenn ja, wie? Wie entsteht das Syndrom namens Burnout? Ist das Risiko,...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Tudo começou quando Freud adivinhou no ambíguo sorriso das mulheres pintadas por Leonardo da Vinci a ternura sublimada, porém inquieta por uma mãe longínqua... A partir dessa constatação e do estudo biográfico e comportamental de Leonardo, naturalmente baseado no seu enorme conhecimento psicanalítico,...
The Good Nurse
A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths...
Hitler's Charisma
Leading Millions into the Abyss
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to listen to dissenting voices, Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, and yet he commanded enormous support and was able to exert a powerful influence over those who encountered him. How did Hitler become such an attractive...
Falling Into the Fire
A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling Into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital;...
The Book of Woe
The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
“Gary Greenberg has become the Dante of our psychiatric age, and the DSM-5 is his Inferno.” —Errol Morris
Since its debut in 1952, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has set down the “official” view on what constitutes mental...
Breaking Free
My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
The NFL legend and Heisman Trophy winner shares the inspiring story of his life and diagnosis with dissociative identity disorder.
Herschel Walker is widely regarded as one of football's greatest running backs. He led the University of Georgia to victory in the Sugar Bowl on the way to an NCAA...
by Amy J. L. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
An examination of adults who have been manipulated by divorcing parents.
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) occurs when divorcing parents use children as pawns, trying to turn the child against the other parent. This book examines the impact of PAS on adults and offers strategies and hope for dealing with the long-term effects.
The Ride Together
A Brother and Sister's Memoir of Autism in the Fam
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
We looked like a cup of human fruit cocktail dumped onto the top of the house, each piece different but all out of the same can.
So begins a book unlike any other, half comics and half text, about a family that lives with autism -- and the strange life that is ordinary to them.
The oldest...
The Quiet Room
A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2008
Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage.
At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child-the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made...
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a scale of "madness" along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates...