Mental category: 19657 books
by Stephen Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A powerful look at the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness, including author Stephen Johnson's struggle with bipolar disorder.
BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich’s music during Stalin’s reign of terror, and writes of...
Activating Your Healing Energies -- Physical, Mental, Spiritual
With the Power and the Knowledge, You Can Heal Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Our Energy Spectrum Whenever I have a problem to solve, I know that both the problem and the solution are constructed from energy. If I really thought about it, I would probably conclude that all of my problems while on this planet earth were created by human energies. This is especially true of our...
Women, Abuse and Trauma Therapy
An Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2004
For many women, choosing to go into therapy to deal with a past traumatic event is a huge step. It takes a lot of time, money and emotional energy. Women, Abuse and Trauma Therapy is for women who are in therapy to deal with the long-term effects of abuse and violence, or who are looking for a therapist.
This...
PTSD Self Help
Transforming Survival into a Life Worth Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder doesn’t have to be a lifetime sentence . . . mere survival is optional. Have you: • Lost someone you know to suicide, war, or natural disaster? • Experienced something you just can’t ‘get over’? • Tried counseling, talk therapy or support groups without success?...
5 Survivors
Personal Stories of Healing from PTSD and Traumatic Events
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
First-person accounts by five PTSD survivors bring hope to the millions suffering from but not yet diagnosed with this affliction—and their loved ones.
First-person accounts by five PTSD survivors bring hope to the millions suffering from but not yet diagnosed with this affliction--and their...
Many Faces of PTSD
Does Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Have a Grip On Your Life?
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2010
Person-centered instead of theory-centered, this resource provides a basic context for understanding how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects people and those around them. Compassionate, firsthand knowledge of the different ways in which PTSD manifests itself are described throughout the...
Get Me Out of Here
My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
With astonishing honesty, this memoir reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones.
With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals...
The Freud Wars
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
The Freud Wars offers a comprehensive introduction to the crucial question of the justification of psychoanalysis.
Part I examines three powerful critiques of psychoanalysis in the context of a recent controversy about its nature and legitimacy: is it a bankrupt science, an innovative science,...
by Paul Youngquist
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
This book offers the first systematic study of madness and its significance for the poetry of William Blake. Blake's reputation as an artist was long clouded by suspicions of madness. Although the great victory of his modern critics has been to see his work clearly, unobstructed by this prejudice,...
by B. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This memoir was first begun to help a young woman get through addiction. But as she dried up, her mental health issues began to shine through. If you or someone you know struggles with either addiction or mental health issues, this memoir will help you see that you are not alone. Brutally honest with a no holds bars attitude, prepare to join the experiments.
Brain in Pain
A Wounded Healer’s Heart-Wrenching and Heart-Warming Guide to Schizophrenia
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Brain in Pain gives a first-hand view of the world of schizophrenia and challenges the stigma surrounding mental illness. Written by Peter Cohen, Brain in Pain is an invaluable window into his compelling world. Both candid and vivid, Cohen describes his experience of living and coping with a psychosis....
by Steven Carley
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
“Positive Illusions” are gaps in reality which traditionally define mental illness. Could it be perhaps these gaps in reality may possess of a positive benefit in regards to an increase in self-esteem? Two arguments exist one stating balanced self-evaluations are simply a sign of depression and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
To be healed implies physical and mental strength and freedom from disease. The dis-ease we encumber in our own being is a result of past programming. It has been my experience that this past programming can be purified through the process of guided meditation. For that reason, I have assembled this...
Psychiatry and Religion
Context, Consensus and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The argument of this book is that the divide between psychiatry and religion is an artificial one and that there is much room for understanding the same phenomena from different perspectives. In it thirteen senior mental health professionals and pastoral workers come together to explore what their...