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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the untold history of the shocking experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR). For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan...
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Publisher
Bick Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Presents a manual for young adults to aid them in understanding mental illness and recovery, covering such topics as suicidal thoughts, personality disorders, learning problems, and intellectual disabilities.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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From a physician and post-traumatic stress disorder specialist comes a nuanced cartography of PTSD, a widely misunderstood yet crushing condition that afflicts millions of Americans.The Unspeakable Mind is the definitive guide for a trauma-burdened age. With profound empathy and meticulous research, Shaili Jain, M.D.a practicing psychiatrist and PTSD specialist at one of Americas top VA hospitals, trauma scientist at the National Center for PTSD,...
Publisher
InFact Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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In any given year, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illness—and yet there is still a significant stigma attached to being labeled as “mentally ill.” We hear about worst-case scenarios, but in many—maybe even most—cases, there is much room for hope. These frank, often intimate stories reflect the writers’ struggles to overcome—both as professionals and as individuals, as current therapists...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Grey's Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist's funny and moving memoir about his residency at Harvard Medical School. In his memoir, Stern pulls back the curtain on the intense and emotionally challenging lessons he and his fellow doctors learned while studying the human condition, and ultimately, the value of connection. The narrative focuses on these residents, their growth as doctors, and the life choices they make as they try to survive their...
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Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
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An expos ̌of the psychiatric profession's bible from a leading psychotherapist, "The Book of Woe "reveals the deeply flawed process by which mental disorders are invented and uninvented -- and why increasing numbers of therapy patients are being declared mentally illustrations.
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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping history of American psychiatry-from jails to hospitals to the lab to the analyst's couch-by the award-winning author of Madness in Civilization. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind-the sorts of things that were once called "madness"-have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A compelling and incisive book that questions the overuse of mental health terms to describe universal human emotions Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A narrative has taken hold that a mental health crisis has been building among young people....
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Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of eternal damnation turned into a childhood terror that drove her to become an outrageously dedicated Born-again Christian ?regularly slinging Bible verses in cutthroat scripture memorization competitions and assaulting strangers at shopping malls with the ?good news” that they were going to hell. Finally, at nineteen,...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross's thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients she treats here are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. Each case study presents its own line of inquiry, leading her to seek relevant psychiatric knowledge from diverse sources.
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