Mental category: 19657 books
by Desmond Gahan
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
There are several types of bipolar disorder; all involve episodes of depression and mania to a degree.
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong illness. Episodes of mania and depression eventually can occur again if you don't get treatment. Many people sometimes continue to have symptoms, even after...
by Alvin Christan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a common type of mental health counseling (psychotherapy). With cognitive behavioral therapy, you work with a mental health counselor (psychotherapist) in a structured way, attending a limited number of sessions. By helping you become aware of inaccurate or negative...
Bipolar Disorder
An Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
People who have extreme mood swings may have bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness. Their moods may have nothing to do with things going on in their lives. The symptoms of bipolar disorder affect not only mood, but also how people think, behave and function.
This guide discusses:
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Healing Walks for Hard Times
Quiet Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Get Your Life Back
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Sometimes life’s hurdles literally stop us in our tracks, sapping vitality and preventing us from participating fully in our own lives and the lives of those we love. Carolyn Scott Kortge recognizes that a key to joyous re-engagement with the world can be—just as literally—to get moving again....
Borderline Personality Disorder
Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Explore and understand new approaches in Borderline therapy
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) lags far behind other disorders such as schizophrenia in terms of research and treatment interventions. Debates about diagnosis, etiology, neurobiology, genetics, medication, and treatment still...
Rethinking Positive Thinking
Inside the New Science of Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
“The solution isn’t to do away with dreaming and positive thinking. Rather, it’s making the most of our fantasies by brushing them up against the very thing most of us are taught to ignore or diminish: the obstacles that stand in our way.”
So often in our day-to-day lives we’re inundated...
The Spiritual Gift of Madness
The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of the Mad Pride Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A bold call for the “insane” to reclaim their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural transformation
• Explains how many of those diagnosed as schizophrenic, bipolar, and other forms of “madness” are not ill but experiencing a spiritual awakening
• Explores the...
The History of Mental Illness in Criminal Cases: The English Tradition
The Role of Mental Illness in Criminal Trials
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Good Night's Sleep
A Drug-Free Solution
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
How to overcome insomnia with visualization, breathwork, and meditation
• Presents mental and physical exercises to quiet mental chatter, visualizations to prepare for sleep, and deep breathing and mindfulness meditation techniques
• Explains how to establish and analyze a sleep...
A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health
Measuring Truth and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Accessible and clinically relevant, A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health describes statistical concepts in plain English with minimal mathematical content, making it perfect for the busy health professional. Using clear language in favour of complex terminology, limitations...
Creativity in Times of Constraint
A Practitioner's Companion in Mental Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social, political, and psychological concerns. The persistence and ubiquity of models designated to tackle diagnoses through focused technologies serve to minimize the human...
Parental Psychiatric Disorder
Distressed Parents and their Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Parental Psychiatric Disorder presents an innovative approach to thinking about and working with families where a parent has a mental illness. With 30 new chapters from an internationally renowned author team, this new edition presents the current state of knowledge in this critically important field....
by Connie Neil
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Threatened for the second time after fifty years of freedom with forced electroshock, I wrote my 57,361-word non-fiction ‘AFTERSHOCK’ on psychiatry’s expanding portals that include elder restraint and the DSM inroads that characterize as mental illness our natural life events.
This is my experience...
by Pei Chen Hsia
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
"I feel stressed out, tired, angry, depressed and worried today. What shall I do? I will read and re-read Visualization and Desensitization Therapy to help my own physical and mental health. Using visualization and desensitization exercises, I will relax my mind and body. I will develop strong coping...