Mental category: 19657 books
Positive Thinking Is the Key to Mental Health
Self-Development Book
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Feel, observe, just stop for a second and look around... Maybe we're not villains; we just act based on some negative stereotypes: we are used to envying someone, to criticize someone and do not consider that we do something wrong. Just think, we blame others – is there anything special about it?...
Pig Pills Inc
The Anatomy of an Academic and Alternative Health Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The bizaree story of Truehope/Synergy and their vitamin concoction E M Power Plus that is alleged to "cure" all mental illnesses. The history from the inception, the raid of their headquarters by the RCMP, their ongoing battle with the Canadian government and some of the horror stories from those who tried the "cure".
Resilience and Mental Health
Challenges Across the Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Humans are remarkably resilient in the face of crises, traumas, disabilities, attachment losses and ongoing adversities. To date, most research in the field of traumatic stress has focused on neurobiological, psychological and social factors associated with trauma-related psychopathology and deficits...
Unmedicated
The Four Pillars of Natural Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The cofounder of the holistic lifestyle website DailyOM presents a gentle and accessible step-by-step guide to moving from excessive reliance on medications to fundamentally healing yourself through four pillars of natural wellness.
Madisyn Taylor was plagued by depression and anxiety, suffering...
Veiled Existence
a scattering of thoughts on living in turmoil
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
This collection of work was penned during a time of frustration, struggle, and sadness by a woman living with an invisible illness within the flawed Mental Health System in Canada.
By reading this book, you will enter a vulnerable world where loneliness reigns, triggered by a lack of qualified,...
The Nearest Relative Handbook
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
When a person is subject to the Mental Health Act, many of his or her principal rights are taken away. It is the function of the nearest relative to compensate for that loss.
This fully updated second edition explains how the nearest relative is identified, and how in some cases he or she might...
by Don Killian, MS, LPC
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Balance is an important factor that encompasses a variety of physical and non-physical domains. When something is out of balance, there are resulting consequences. This book looks at three areas of a person's life: Attitude, Behavior, and Commitment. When either three of these areas are out of...
Finding the Blue Sky
A Mindful Approach to Choosing Happiness Here and Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Joseph Emet explores the intersection between Positive Psychology--the study of what makes people happy--and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism.
Positive Psychology—with its focus not on mental "disease," but rather on what actually makes people happy—has revolutionized the way that we look...
by Scott Abel
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
A proven, integrated approach to weight loss that includes self-nurturing and mindfulness... but which doesn't ask you to abandon a diet strategy altogether.
This book is for you if you have substantial weight to lose (20 lbs. or more) and you are tired of trying different diets, different...
Thirteen Geese in Flight
One Black Woman's Ascent into Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
The last place Lisa Eley expects to be is a despondent patient in a psychiatric hospital on suicide watch fighting for her life. As an African American single parent from northwest Baltimore, Lisa knows knock-down, drawn-out hardships and resilient comebacks very well. She rises above every land mine...
by Jimmy Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
For centuries women have been the victims of abuse under the label of ‘mental health’. Author Jimmy Smyth tackles the uncomfortable truth about the brutality exacted upon women by families, friends, clergy, doctors, nurses and the state in his latest work It Was More Fun In Hell.
The former...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
From the much-referenced and highly acclaimed Textbooks of Military Medicine series, War Psychiatry addresses the mental health issues faced in combat, including combat stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, and postcombat reentry. Topics covered in this massive book, with over 800 pages, include:
Traditional...
Happy Never After
why the happiness fairytale is driving us mad (and how I flipped the script)
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Jill Stark was living the dream. She had a coveted job as a senior journalist, she was dating a sports star, and her first book had just become a bestseller. After years of chasing the fairytale ending, she’d finally found it. And then it all fell apart.
Getting her happy-ever-after plunged...
Depression and Bipolar Disorder
Family Psychoeducation Group Manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
Developed in response to requests for practical assistance from family members struggling to manage the needs of relatives who have been diagnosed with major depression or bipolar disorder, the CAMH family psychoeducation program is designed to help families become knowledgeable about the disorders,...