Mental Illness category: 868 books

Making Diagnosis Simple. Between 2009 and 2011, as I was opening a new practice, I evaluated 1000 new patients, as counted by my secretary. I changed approximately 250 of these patients from antidepressants to drugs for mania (lower dose than usual mania.) Some of them had been on antidepressants...

Traumatic stress arises in reaction to catastrophic life events. Such events can range from train disasters and car crashes to natural calamities such as earthquakes, wildfires and floods, and from life-threatening medical diagnoses to acts of violence and abuse. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)...

Trauma, Shame, and Secret Making provides a descriptive, qualitative inquiry into a family’s unsuccessful attempts across generations to repress the memories of an early life trauma. Broad in its scope, Trauma, Shame, and Secret Making explores more than one hundred years in the life of a single...

This classic book has helped many thousands of people to manage the impact that childhood sexual abuse has had on their lives. The positive and optimistic approach continues to empower survivors to break free from the past. This new edition by clinical psychologist Kay Toon now refers to types...

Presenting crucial knowledge and state-of-the-art treatment approaches for working with young children affected by trauma, this book is an essential resource for mental health professionals and child welfare advocates. Readers gain an understanding of how trauma affects the developing brain, the impact...

Discover How You Can Overcome Bipolar Disorder And Transform Your Life Forever! You really can have more stability, fewer mood swings, and live a happier life. If it sounds too good to be true, I promise it's not! You can have all of this and more simply by learning how to deal with your bipolar...

In EMDR, de meest effectieve traumatherapie omschrijft Marion Lang alle aspecten van deze verbluffend effectieve, kortdurende methode om traumatische gebeurtenissen als een ongeluk, overval of verlies te verwerken. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) is wetenschappelijk bewezen en wordt...

According to the Mayo Clinic, bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, is a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression). Depression is a black dog that follows your every step. It saps every ounce...

For several decades there has been an increasing move towards viewing the psychotic illnesses from a dimensional perspective, seeing them as continuous with healthy functioning. The idea, concentrating mostly on schizophrenia, has generated considerable theoretical debate as well as empirical research,...

Dalla banalità del male a quella del bene. Il male è tutto ciò che fa soffrire gli esseri senzienti: da questa banale considerazione, si snoda il tema del saggio, in cui l’autrice tocca temi uniti dal comune denominatore di avere come vittime della sofferenza inflitta gli animali non umani: le...

Témoignage. Le parcours d’un homme, la trentaine, percuté par une maladie complexe et inconnue : la schizophrénie. À travers deux crises et un voyage initiatique qui le mènera du cœur de la France à l’Egypte, on retrouve un personnage complexe, à fleur de peau, en quête d’identité, de...

Originally published in 1992, Borderline presents a unique study of the disturbed mind. Professional psychologist Peter Chadwick draws upon his own personal experience of madness to provide a valuable exploration of the psychology of paranoia and schizophrenia. The book goes beyond a narrowly...

In this unique book, Andrew Lotterman describes a creative approach to the psychotherapy of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. Lotterman focuses on specific techniques that can be used in psychological therapy with people who have symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions,...

“Unburdening Souls at the Speed of Thought” is about the transformative journey to wholeness that was modeled by Christ and is accelerated by a ground-breaking therapy known as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). You will see an emotionally scarred surfer recover from the ultimate...