Mental Illness category: 868 books
Responses to Terrorism
Can psychosocial approaches break the cycle of violence?
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Why do responses to terrorist attacks often perpetuate cycles of deadly violence?
Can an understanding of the psychology of these cycles help us to break them?
Drawing on clinical experience of the care of people and communities affected by violence and disasters and on advances in cognitive...
Combat Trauma
A Personal Look at Long-Term Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Much has been written of the short-term experience of combat trauma. Almost nothing has been documented about how that trauma impacts individuals years after their first conflict experiences and into later life. Here, Johnson relates the stories of fifteen of his combat brothers to share with the...
The Body Keeps the Score
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
**“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold...
Depression
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is for you if you feel: your life is out of control, defeated and hopeless about the future, things that once gave you pleasure are no longer of interest, tired all the time, unable to motivate yourself. You can find light at the end of the tunnel and beat depression. Joan Zawatzky shares the...
by John P. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
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Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder
Understanding and Helping Your Partner
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Maintaining a relationship is hard enough without the added challenges of your partner’s bipolar disorder symptoms. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder offers information and step-by-step advice for helping your partner manage mood swings and impulsive actions, allowing you to finally focus on...
More Confessions of a Trauma Junkie
My Life as a Nurse Paramedic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
More True Stories from EMS and the ER
More Confessions shares the raw and honest feelings of emergency service professionals through true 'story behind the story' revelations. Disclosing experiences from both sides of the gurney, Sherry and other EMS, ER, paramilitary, and firefighter responders walk...
by Blanche Belljar
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This self-help book describes how I’ve managed to survive and thrive with bipolar disorder for over 25 years. It offers tips on how to pick a good psychiatrist, how to handle depression, anxiety and insomnia, and how to help a loved one who’s going through a manic episode. It shares with you the...
The Processes of Defense
Trauma, Drives, and Reality A New Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
In this direct and scholarly book, Dr. Joseph Fernando provides the first in-depth exploration and up-to-date revision of the psychoanalytic theory of defenses since Anna Freud's 1936 classic, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense. The workings of three basic forms of defense_repression, denial, and...
When Quietness Came
A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey With Schizophrenia
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
When Quietness Came is the true story of a young woman studying neuroscience who, in her final undergraduate year, has a psychotic break, attempts suicide and ends up in hospital. Her struggles to get well and to pursue her PhD are described in this book. Her story is geared to people from a variety...
Switching Time
A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
"[A]n absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case of multiple personality disorder--from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery."
-- Colin Ross, author of Multiple Personality Order and The Osiris Complex
In 1989, Karen Overhill walks...
by Edward Lewellen
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Life takes us on a journey. Some attempt to precisely plan their journey. Some well-meaning parents have a plan for every step of their child’s life, as if they’re able to see the future. Many others leave their child’s future to happen as it will. Of course, those are the extremes and there...
The Panic Switch
A Scientist and Former Sufferer’s Method for Instantly Stopping Panic without Medication
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Panic attacks are extreme sensations of fear that overwhelm the individual. They affect nearly 10% of the population. The sufferer feels helpless and in doubt of their sanity.
How to stop this nightmare?
This book presents a concise and effective procedure to switch off the panic. The...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bipolar Disorder
Understand, Treat, and Thrive with Bipolar Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Clear answers on correctly diagnosing and living with bipolar disorder.
This comprehensive and reliable guide addresses how bipolar disorder is different from other disorders, the latest research into bipolar treatments, strategies for living with bipolar disorder, and much more.
·Bipolar...