Mental category: 19657 books
by Wambui Bahati
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
From Broadway star to mental patient. Her struggle with mental illness is the underlying and recurring theme in her life until, the day, she walked away from the mental health system and became her own doctor and healer. Wambui shares how mental illness stole her life and how she took it back and re-invented herself.
by B. A. (Beverly) Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Hello. I am so glad that you are here. My name is Beverly and I am a RN. I have over 30 years experience in helping people in crisis, starting with a degree in Psychology from VPI&SU in 1981. I have been a Registered Nurse since 1993, and board certified as a specialist in Mental Health and Mental...
Inside Out
The Social Meaning of Mental Retardation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
‘We have to assume that the mind is working no matter what it looks like on the outside. We can’t just judge by appearance…If you take away the label they are human beings.’ Ed Murphy
What does it mean to be ‘mentally retarded’? Professors Bogdan and Taylor have interviewed two...
Consciousness, Language, and Self
Psychoanalytic, Linguistic, and Anthropological Explorations of the Dual Nature of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Consciousness, Language, and Self proposes that the human self is innately bilingual. Conscious mind includes two qualitatively distinct mental processes, each of which uses the same formal elements of language differently. The "mother tongue," the language of primordial consciousness, begins in utero...
by Mariah Middleton-Rackliff
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
A Room without Walls is a memoir detailing my life after being diagnosed with a series of mental disorders. The memoir's narrative is stream of consciousness and poetry. The audiences I hope to reach with this novel are those who have mental illness, addiction, and those who have loved ones afflicted...
Breaking Into My Life
Growing Up with a Bipolar Parent and My Battle to Reclaim Myself
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
“I heard he was just diagnosed with a mental illness. Can you believe that?” The speaker is laughing so hard she can hardly get the words out. “That sure explains a lot.”
Oh my God, I think to myself. *They could be laughing about my mother. *
In some ways things have not...
Saving Normal
An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
International Bestseller • "An extraordinarily important book." —Marcia Angell, Harvard Medical School
A deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality, by "one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists" (The Atlantic)
Anyone living...
Motivation: Holistic Fitness: How to Develop Your Emotional Muscles to Achieve Success & Happiness in All Areas of Life
Motivation, Motivational Books, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
How to Develop Your Emotional & Mental Muscles to Become Unstoppable and Achieve Success in All Areas of Life
Simple Yet Powerful Mindset Strategies That Anyone Can Master!
You are just about to discover how to achieve a lifestyle you have always wanted and create a new, stronger...
by William Glasser M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
How psychopharmacology has usurped the role of psychotherapy in our society, to the great detriment of the patients involved.
William Glasser describes in Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health the sea change that has taken place in the treatment of mental health in the...
Flagging the Problem
A new approach to mental health
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
A practical guide to understanding and coping with anxiety, depression, addiction and suicide.
Flagging The Problem: A New Approach to Mental Health investigates how the mood system in the brain and the body works, and how problems in this system contribute to anxiety, depression, addiction...
by Michael E. Illovsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Mental Health Professionals, Minorities, and the Poor provides mental health professionals with information essential to the accurate assessment and effective treatment of diver populations.
by Sonia Austrian
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
Written for social workers by a social worker, Mental Disorders, Medications, and Clinical Social Work discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common mental disorders. Looking at disorders from an ecosystems perspective, Austrian goes beyond a linear classification...
A Practical Guide to Mental Health Problems in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
It's not just their autism!
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Exploring the relationship between ASD and mental health difficulties, this book offers practical guidance to help parents and professionals recognise and handle co-morbid conditions, and dispels the myth that they are just a part of autism.
The authors cover a wide range of common mental health...
Social Class and the Helping Professions
A Clinician's Guide to Navigating the Landscape of Class in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the intersection of social class and the helping professions, including examinations of the role of social class in American culture, classism, social class and mental health, and the American Dream. It will be a valuable tool for practitioners in...