Mental category: 19657 books
Memoir of a Journey with Mental Illness
Treading Water
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
M.S. Burke was only nineteen years old when she inexplicably tried to kill herself.
It made no sense: She lived a privileged life of yacht clubs, tennis lessons, private schools, and summers in Canada. If you named it, she had it, including an incredible familywith three sisters she adored...
by Grahame Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This book fills the gap in the market for an introductory text on mental health nurses that explores the psychological interventions used with mental health patient groups.
Managing Fear
The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Managing Fear examines the growing use of risk assessment as it relates to preventive detention and supervision schemes for offenders perceived to be at a high risk of re-offending, individuals with severe mental illness, and suspected terrorists. It outlines a number of legislative regimes in common...
9 Highland Road
Sane Living for the Mentally Ill
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Before Julie Callahan came to the house at 9 Highland Road in Glen Cove, New York, she had spent a good part of her young life in mental hospitals, her mental and emotional coherence nearly destroyed by a childhood of sexual abuse. Fred Grasso, a schizophrenic, had lived in a filthy single-room occupancy...
by William George Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This is William George Jordan's 1909 work, "The Crown of Individuality". This volume deals with the importance of individuality and explores the ways in which it can affect one's life and general happiness. A timeless guide to mental training for self-betterment, "The Crown of Individuality"...
Social Perspective
The Missing Element in Mental Health Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2011
Social Perspective explores the impact of social factors on individual health, a topic often overlooked in the practice of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. Richard U'Ren synthesizes viewpoints and information usually dispersed among many disciplines to show how social roles, political-economic...
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units
Working with Clients, Staff and the Milieu
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units presents innovative ways of delivering CBT within the inpatient setting and applying CBT principles to inform and enhance inpatient care.
Maintaining staff morale and creating a culture of therapy in the acute inpatient unit...
by Shaun O'Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
The story of my 13 year Police Career that ended in PTSD, depression, my battle with suicide and the long road back. My hope is my story helps other people realize there is light at the end of the tunnel. If you are considering reading this book then I want you to know who I am and what I want to...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness.
Why do I feel bad? There is real power in understanding our bad feelings. With his classic Why We Get Sick, Dr. Randolph...
by George S. Everly Jr., Jeffrey M. Lating
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Psychological first aid, or PFA, is designed to mitigate the effects of acute stress and trauma and assist those in crisis to cope effectively with adversity. PFA is designed to be applied in emergencies, including disasters and terrorist attacks. In this essential guide, George S. Everly, Jr., developer...
We're All A Little Bit Crazy
Removing the Stigma of Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
If the mental health of humanity were placed on a continuum, you would find about 2% insane and about 2% with optimal psychological health. Where does this leave the rest of us? After 30 years studying this topic, psychologist Dr. Stuart Ross has come to the conclusion that "We're All A Little Bit Crazy."...
Mad Science
Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
*Winner of an honorable mention from theSociety for Social Work and ResearchforOutstanding Social Work Book AwardMad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American...
by angelique dhelhemme
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book covers many topics on the corruption from Pharmaceutical Giants, Psychiatry and Mental Health Institutions, there are guidelines on how to seek help or to research further topics and resources. You will find other people's stories from their abuse they encountered with Mental Health. The history...
What A Life Can Be
One Therapist's Take on Schizo-affective Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A fascinating look into the world of schizo-affective disorder which, at times, is funny, heartbreaking, but above all uplifting. Dr. Carolyn Dobbins describes the onset and progression of this debilitating disease and gives readers hope. The book breaks through the stigma as mental illness affects...