Mental Illness category: 868 books

In the wake of a catastrophic event, the witness may discover or experience unsettling emotions which can trigger subsequent behaviors. These reactions can lead to a number of consequences, some of which are unproductive. Restabilization is a practical means of addressing these reactions and...

Is your holiday to-do list overwhelming? Do you have mixed feelings about the winter holiday season? The Kaizen Plan for Reducing Holiday Stress can help! Discover: - Nine strategies for dealing with the source of your stress - How to spend less and shop more efficiently - How to resist...

With images of Jennifer Lopez’s butt and America Ferrera’s smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become an ubiquitous presence. Dangerous Curves traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including...

Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded...

This eBook is specifically written to help and assist you if you have the tendency to experience or if you are currently experiencing fear, worry, anxiety and stress. The content is to help you understand the concepts associated with stress, how you can cope with stress and eventually manage...

Combat fighter pilot Mark Berent writes of a dragon-shaped karst mountain in Laos along the Ho Chi Minh Trail that bristles with physical and psychological danger. He writes of it as he first saw it on an F-4 FAC mission from Ubon RTAFB in 1969. Then he adds an excerpt from "Phantom Leader," one of his historical fiction books about war and politics in the Vietnam era.

Written by a U.S. Army Infantry soldier, Uncomfortably Numb is an unflinching look at the issues of active military & veteran suicide from the military perspective. This direct, intense work tells hard truths; and leaves out everything people think they know about life after war.

Communicating effectively is key to every successful relationship. Bipolar personalities can create unique challenges. This book provides awareness, perspective, tips and strategies to enable healthy interactions. Written for the bipolar person- AND their family and friends. Top Topics Include: **...

Bipolar brilliance is bestowed to those special souls who are endowed genetically with this birthright. Celebrate the many vibrant aspects of creativity and spirituality from a bipolar friend’s point of view. Not-so-common yet popular topics are presented. Such as spiritual awakenings and soul source...

The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties,...

As children we knew the secrets to relaxation: Now is the time to rediscover them.Plenty of books have been written about stress management, yet few of them provide simple and sustainable solutions that make them applicable to our everyday lives. That is why "From Stress to Calm: Relaxation...

Originally published in 1940, this classic study of two schizophrenic case-histories further opened up the seemingly intractable problem of this condition; a task preceded by Jung’s own Psychology of Dementia Praecox. It was Baynes’s grasp of the meaning of the symbol coupled with his wide scholarship...

Conflict and trauma remain among the most prevalent themes in film and literature. Comics has never avoided such narratives, and comics artists are writing them in ways that are both different from and complementary to literature and film. In Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War, Harriet E. H. Earle...

If you feel like your child may be struggling with OCD and you are not sure what you can do to help, this book is for you. Ali Greymond has helped people all over the world recover from OCD. You will learn how OCD works and what you can do to help your child recover.