Mental Illness category: 868 books
by Linda Lindholm
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Like a storm, death can overtake you, often fiercely and without warning. Your whole life changes in an instant. Widow's Key is a comprehensive step-by- step guide for before, during and after the death of a spouse or any significant personal losses. A national book award winner, Widow's Key provides...
by Derek O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
We live in a time where stress has become a common and perplexing challenge. How do we alleviate pressure and anxiety when life seems so overwhelming? Between the external “noise” of our fast-paced world and the daily responsibilities expected of us, finding an effective way to tackle stress is...
by Javy W. Galindo
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Happiness is a choice. But for many, choosing happiness can be difficult. Today, start on your path to 'choosing happiness' with any of the over 30 easy-to-follow exercises found in “The Happiness Habit.” Based on the latest research into the psychology of happiness and full of over...
Social Exclusion, Compound Trauma and Recovery
Applying Psychology, Psychotherapy and PIE to Homelessness and Complex Needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Responding to the growing number of psychologically-informed services for people experiencing social exclusion and, in particular, homelessness, this book gives professionals the information and understanding they need to be fully informed in their practice with this client group. It begins with theory,...
WHOLE
How I Learned to Fill the Fragments of My Life with Forgiveness, Hope, Strength, and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A five-point plan to usher you through heartache and toward a stronger, healthier place.
“I know how to kill someone and get away with it.” The words spoken by her father when Melissa was a teen haunt her to this day. Two years later, after confessing that he was the serial killer nationally...
Convergence Culture
Where Old and New Media Collide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)
Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate...
Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers
Exploring Participatory Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)
Henry Jenkins“s pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass...
Living and Loving after Betrayal
How to Heal from Emotional Abuse, Deceit, Infidelity, and Chronic Resentment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Betrayal has many faces, including anger, abuse, deceit, and infidelity. These feel like betrayal because they violate the implicit promise of emotional bonds, that your loved one will care about your well being and never intentionally hurt you. If you’ve recently left a relationship where you felt...
At War with Yourself
A Comic about Post-Traumatic Stress and the Military
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
"I had the idea to make a comic about your experience of PTSD. I'd like to understand more about it and I think it could help other people too."
In this illustrated conversation between Samuel C. Williams and his friend, Matt, they talk candidly about Matt's struggles with post-traumatic...
The Protectors and The Sanctuary
The Protectors, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
"Alyssa, 12, is probably too old to have imaginary friends. She has imaginery monsters under her bed, though; monsters that protect her from the real danger – her father. Tonight, upon returning from The Sanctuary, she watches her body lay in bed with glassy eyes, quaking lips, a teddy bear named Tammy in her arms, and a split down her stomach."
by Adam Fenner
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Are you heading out for a combat zone?
Written from the perspective of the deploying Service Member, by Adam “Doc” Fenner, after serving five combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, Fenner combines humor and common sense to address the hardest of issues faced by deploying Service Members....
by Adam Fenner
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Are you preparing to send off a Service Member to a combat zone?
Written from the perspective of the deploying Service Member, by Adam “Doc” Fenner, after serving five combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, Fenner combines humor and common sense to address the hardest of issues faced by...
by Alfred Adler
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Adler's basic premise is this - Psychology as a discipline can address the type of human suffering caused by social maladjustment. If one suffers it is likely that feels he does not belong. This is likely caused by an early feeling of inferiority, which creates a drive to superiority. But this drive...
by Elton Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Pierre Janet (1859 – 1947) is considered to be one of the founders of psychology, and pioneered research in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy and psychotherapy. Janet’s most crucial research, particularly in the subjects of ‘dissociation’ and ‘subconscious’ - terms coined by him...