Mental category: 19657 books
Treating the Trauma Survivor
An Essential Guide to Trauma-Informed Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Treating the Trauma Survivor is a practical guide to assist mental health, health care, and social service providers in providing trauma-informed care. This resource provides essential information in order to understand the impacts of trauma by summarizing key literature in an easily accessible and...
On The Ball?
How football can help your mental health
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
This is a book for anyone interested in football and keeping well. Football is a global game, played, enjoyed, talked about (and given out about!) by millions of people around the world. Looking after your health, especially your mental health, has become more of a priority in recent years as higher...
Weight Expectations
One Man's Recovery from Anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
As seen on ITV's Lorraine
Part memoir, part self-help guide, this witty book will take you through the day-to-day struggles of living with an eating disorder. Stand-up comedian Dave Chawner tells the story of how he became anorexic, what his life with mental illness was like, and how he started...
Note to Self
A Seven-Step Path to Gratitude and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
• Self-value is on the decline. Global suicide rates have increased 60% in the past 45 years. On average, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds somewhere in the world. (Suicide.org) • Women are 60% more likely than men to experience an anxiety disorder over their lifetime. (The National...
Develop Your Medical Intuition
Activate Your Natural Wisdom for Optimum Health and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The wise inner voice of our spirit is always communicating with us through our intuition...if only we can learn to listen. Develop Your Medical Intuition shows you how to improve your health with easy step-by-step exercises, guided visualizations, case studies, and practical advice from author Sherrie...
Obsessive-Compulsive Dramatic
My Fight Against OCD, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
My name is Jack Bingham, I'm twenty-one and a full-blown mental patient. This is going to be a look into my mind-the way I've learned to cope with my mental illnesses. I wish I could tell you that my story is going to be chock-full of amazing insight, but a lot of it is learning what not to do. You'll...
Maybes & Nevers
On our journey through mental illness
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
You can’t fix it – You can’t change it. But, you can love them through it. I came to believe that’s the answer. I’ve learned over time that’s all I could do. My son came apart at eighteen. The years ahead were torturous for all of us. Everyone has a story. Maybes & Nevers is my story. I hope in some way this book will help you on your journey.
by Natalie Packer
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
This is a memoir, a journey through a young girl's life, from infancy to maturity, from sickness to health, from darkness to light, from fear to freedom... in Christ. It illuminates the struggles our youth face and how a lack of true relationship with God contributes to the destruction of one's body...
All of Me
How I Learned to Live with the Many Personalities Sharing My Body
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Taking the reader through an extraordinary world where the very nature of reality is different, this personal narrative tells the story of one woman’s terrifying battle to understand her own mind. From the desperate struggle to win back the child she loves to the courage and commitment needed to...
by Jane Van Buren
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Mothers and Daughters and the Origins of Female Subjectivity challenges the theory of the Oedipus complex, which permeates psychoanalytic theory, psychology, semiotics and cultural studies. The book focuses on the re-examination of women’s development through the theories of primitive mental states.
Women’s...
The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist
Private life, professional practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Therapists are often expected to be immune to the kind of problems that they help clients through. This book serves to demonstrate that this is certainly not the case: they are no more resistant to difficult and unexpected personal circumstances than anyone else.In this book Marie Adams looks into...
Women and Psychosis
An Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Psychosis refers to a loss of contact with reality, in which people have trouble distinguishing between what is real and what is not. Psychosis can be frightening, confusing and distressing. This guide is written for women who have had a psychotic episode, and for their families.
It explains:
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Unhinged
The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
IN THIS STIRRING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN WAKE-UP CALL, psychiatrist Daniel Carlat exposes deeply disturbing problems plaguing his profession, revealing the ways it has abandoned its essential purpose: to understand the mind, so that psychiatrists can heal mental illness and not just treat symptoms....
My Life
Not Mine to Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Colette Keefe brings us an emotional, poignant account of her turbulent childhood in which she was physically, emotionally, and sexually abused. Into her adulthood, these traumatic experiences manifested themselves in an array of mental illnesses, including depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder....