Mental Illness category: 868 books
Psychosis and Emotion
The role of emotions in understanding psychosis, therapy and recovery
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
There is increasing recognition that emotional distress plays a significant part in the onset of psychosis, the experience of psychosis itself and in the unfolding of recovery that follows. This book brings together leading international experts to explore the role of emotion and emotion regulation...
by Laetitia Booysen
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Beneath Ilse-Kim's perfect image lies a dark secret: a secret she shamefully struggles to keep under control as it slowly destroys her life. Two illnesses have sunk their teeth deep into her soul, slowly ripping her apart and obliterating all hope for a peaceful existence or a loving relationship...
Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2010 BMA Medical Book Awards!
Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses brings together professionals from around the world to provide an extensive overview of the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis.
Divided into...
Psychosis, Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in Postwar USA
On the borderland of madness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Covering the last four decades of the 20th century, this book explores the unwritten history of the struggles between psychoanalysis and psychiatry in postwar USA, inaugurated by the neosomatic revolution, which had profound consequences for the treatment of psychotic patients. Analyzing and synthesizing...
Dead Serious
Breaking Cycle of Teen Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
My brother took his own life on his thirtieth birthday. My life has never been the same.
Thirty plus years after publishing the first edition of Dead Serious, this second completely revised and updated edition covers new ground: bullying, social media, LGBTQ teens, suicide prevention programs,...
Fumes and Fine Dust
Working Under Chemical Assault: Neurological Effects
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
In a sense this book wrote itself. Excerpts from journals written over nineteen years of workplace exposure to chemicals depict the images and struggles within a gradually deteriorating brain that had once been completely functional. The author's strong, healthy body was breaking down as well. However,...
Cooling the Flames:
De-escalation of Mentally Ill & Aggressive Patients - A Comprehensive Guidebookfor Firefighters and EMS
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
People suffering from psychiatric or substance abuse disorder can display any one of a number of frightening behaviors. Ellis Amdur and John K. Murphy offer firefighters and EMTs a comprehensive set of strategies to keep themselves and their patients safe, while functioning at the highest level of...
by Rachel Goldsmith Turow
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
How mindfulness can help trauma survivors move to places of healing.
Trauma touches every life, but the way that we hold our pain makes a difference. Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD provides user-friendly descriptions of the many facets of traumatic stress alongside evidence-based strategies...
Some Dreams Are Worth Keeping
A Memoir of My Bipolar Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Bipolar disorder is a condition which is affecting millions of Americans. Susan Johnson's book takes you inside the world of bipolar,letting you see what life is really like on the other side of the rainbow. Susan Johnson's memoir is a must read for anyone who wants to share the inside life of a person with bipolar disorder and her family.
CBT for Psychosis
Process-orientated Therapies and the Third Wave
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for psychosis is constantly changing and evolving. Recently, in what is sometimes called the ‘third wave’, therapy has become more concerned with the individual’s relationship to their experience, rather than with the content of it. This more process–orientated...
by Caleb Lack
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In this book, clinical psychologist and professor Dr. Caleb Lack introduces readers to the class of mental health problems known as the mood disorders. Covering what we know about each of the specific disorders across eight areas (DSM-IV critiera, changes expected in DSM-5, associated features, presentation...
by Stephen Dansiger, PsyD, MFT
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Based on the belief that mindfulness is a critical component in the delivery of EMDR, this innovative text integrates mindfulness-informed practice with EMDR therapy to create an effective new approach for healing trauma. Based on current evidence-based research, the book demonstrates—with clear,...
EMDR for Clinician Self-Care
Models, Scripted Protocols, and Summary Sheets for Mental Health Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
In E-Book Format!
EMDR Therapy is an integrative psychotherapy approach based on standard procedures and protocols. EMDR practitioners have been called upon, worldwide, to respond to traumatized populations in the aftermath of catastrophes both natural and manmade. As a result of working with...
Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents
Theory and Clinical Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents presents a series of unique and compelling case studies written by some of the foremost international experts in the study of dissociation in young people. In the new edition, chapters have been updated to include discussion of the most recent findings...