Mental category: 19657 books

Humane Helping is a comprehensive, practical guide that helps clinicians shift their practice from the mental disorder-and-chemical fix and expert-talk models to a more humane, helpful model that increases their ability to help clients meet life’s challenges and reduce emotional distress. Chapters...

In Helping Parents of Diagnosed, Distressed, and Different Children, Eric Maisel provides clinicians with the tools they need to address the issues facing the parents of diagnosed children. In these pages, mental health professionals will find tips for using the right language to guide families through...

Teaches the three paths that Taoist masters have used for centuries to create tranquillity in one's life. • Adapts ancient Taoist wisdom to address the problems of a frenetic lifestyle. • Offers clear instructions for releasing, massaging, and breathing stress away. • Explores...

This book in many ways was written to appease my creative inner dreamer. More importantly, it has allowed me to share my story with you, the reader, in hopes that you might find comfort knowing you are not alone - not alone if you suffered years of childhood abuse, if you were molested, raped, beaten...

Being Bipolar—Living With Manic-Depressive Disorder: A Patient’s Firsthand Account is an inside look into the mind of a bipolar patient. I've struggled with bipolar disorder all my life, even before I was diagnosed at the age of 16. With this book, I hope to illustrate the daily and continuing struggles...

Users and Abusers of Psychiatry is a radically different, critical account of the day-to-day practice of psychiatry. Using real-life examples and her own experience as a clinical psychologist, Lucy Johnstone argues that the traditional way of treating mental illness can often exacerbate people's original...

The universal quest to create cosmologies – to comprehend the relationship between mind and world - is inevitably limited by the social, cultural and historical perspective of the observer, in this instance western psychoanalysis. In this book Michael Robbins attempts to transcend such contextual...

USA Best Book Award FINALIST - 2017 This book is designed to help readers understand depression and make positive changes to overcome it. Dr. Aihan Kuhn teaches a unique tai chi form that combines elements of Chen and Yang styles as well as qigong and meditation. The form is easy to learn,...

In the past few decades, awareness of bipolar disorder has significantly increased, but understanding of the condition remains vague for most of the general public. Though the term itself is relatively recent, the condition has affected individuals for centuries—and no more profoundly than in the...

 Have you ever asked yourself, "What does depression really look like from a professional's perspective?" or "How can I best help my depressed friend?" Well, How to Fight Depression presents nine (9) psychological case studies of real people dealing with depression in this 37-page booklet....

Take a moment and look inside of you. What is your dream life? Why are you here?The society is thrown into the devastating state of the Matrix. Ray who works at an auto body shop that he hates is forced to live under the mind control. Living a painful and depressing life he does not want. Ray wants...

The story follows an unnamed narrator who visits a mental institution in southern France (more accurately, a "Maison de Santé") known for a revolutionary new method of treating mental illnesses called the "system of soothing". A companion with whom he is travelling knows Monsieur...

What is bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder also commonly referred to as the manic depressive disorder, is a brain illness that is associated with abnormal mood swings, activity and energy levels as well as the ability of the affected person to perform normal daily activities. It can range from the...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental disorder characterized by disturbed and unstable interpersonal relationships and self-image, along with impulsive, reckless, and often self-destructive behavior. Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.