Mental Illness category: 868 books
Gorilla and the Bird
A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
*Soon to be an HBO limited series*
**"Glorious...one of the best memoirs I've read in years...**a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. [McDermott] can move from barely controlled hilarity to the brink of rage to aching tenderness...
Women, Abuse and Trauma Therapy
An Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2004
For many women, choosing to go into therapy to deal with a past traumatic event is a huge step. It takes a lot of time, money and emotional energy. Women, Abuse and Trauma Therapy is for women who are in therapy to deal with the long-term effects of abuse and violence, or who are looking for a therapist.
This...
PTSD Self Help
Transforming Survival into a Life Worth Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder doesn’t have to be a lifetime sentence . . . mere survival is optional. Have you: • Lost someone you know to suicide, war, or natural disaster? • Experienced something you just can’t ‘get over’? • Tried counseling, talk therapy or support groups without success?...
5 Survivors
Personal Stories of Healing from PTSD and Traumatic Events
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
First-person accounts by five PTSD survivors bring hope to the millions suffering from but not yet diagnosed with this affliction—and their loved ones.
First-person accounts by five PTSD survivors bring hope to the millions suffering from but not yet diagnosed with this affliction--and their...
Many Faces of PTSD
Does Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Have a Grip On Your Life?
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2010
Person-centered instead of theory-centered, this resource provides a basic context for understanding how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects people and those around them. Compassionate, firsthand knowledge of the different ways in which PTSD manifests itself are described throughout the...
The Bipolar Handbook
Real-Life Questions with Up-to-Date Answers
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
For Dr. Wes Burgess, the diagnosis of bipolar disorder means hope-hope for the estimated ten million people who will develop the disorder during their lifetimes, and hope for the families and friends of people who suffer from it. Drawing upon the real questions asked by patients and families during...
Confessions of a Trauma Junkie
My Life as a Nurse Paramedic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Lynn Jones
Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. Sherry Lynn Jones has been an Emergency Medical Technician, Emergency Room Nurse, prison healthcare practitioner,...
Trauma and Memory
Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist...
REBOOT!
Confronting PTSD on Your Terms
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Are You Ready to Reboot Your PTSD?
Reboot! Confronting PTSD on Your Terms offers a well-structured method for getting a grip on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and starting to turn it around. Detailed inventories provide the opportunity to explore needs, both physical and emotional, both needs...
The Up And Down Life
The Truth About Bipolar Disorder--the Good, the Bad, and the Funny
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
A fresh, honest, and practical guide to living with bipolar disorder.
Paul Jones, a stand-up comedian and workshop leader who suffers from bipolar disorder, uses humor, honesty, and hard-won practical advice to dispel the stigma surrounding mental illnesses and shed light on the challenges...
by Lori Oliwenstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Bipolar disorder is about the wildest of euphorias and the deepest of depressions. Now, Alpha Books and Psychology Today present all the information, guidance and support people with bipolar disorder and their loved ones need in order to survive. This important book contains cutting-edge research...
The PTSD Workbook
Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In the third edition of The PTSD Workbook, psychologists and trauma experts Mary Beth Williams and Soili Poijula offer readers the most effective tools available for overcoming post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
PTSD is an extremely debilitating condition that can occur after exposure to...
Out of the Shadows
The Health and Well-Being of Private Contractors Working in Conflict Environments
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Private contractors have been deployed extensively around the globe for the past decade and may be exposed to many of the stressors that are known to have physical and mental health implications for military personnel. Results from a RAND survey offer preliminary findings about the mental and physical...
The Wandering Mind
Understanding Dissociation from Daydreams to Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Have you ever had a daydream? If so, you’ve had a dissociative experience. The same is true if you’ve had an out-of-body moment or thought you were somewhere else as you drifted off to sleep. These are seemingly harmless and temporary dissociations. But further down the spectrum of such experiences,...