Psychology - Mental Illness

Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming

By: Jonathan Shay

In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life. Seamlessly combining important...

One by One; Portraits of Mental Illnesses in America

By: Londa B

Author Londa B. invites you to travel through the difficult pathways of the mentally ill, their loved ones, as well as their caretakers. One by One, each character will tell his or her story in regards to their mental disability. Author Londa B....

The Sociopath Next Door

By: Martha Stout

Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teacher?Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her...

Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital

By: Alex Beam

Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous,...

Ten Days in a Mad-House

By: Nellie Bly

Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (wrote as Nellie Bly) (1864- 1922) was an American journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker. She is most famous for an undercover expose in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. She...

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

By: Darby Penney

“The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad.  It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum--the...

A Balanced Life: 9 Strategies for Coping with the Mental Health Problems of a Loved One

By: Tom Smith

The ultimate goal of those with a mental disorder and the people who love them is balance: emotional, mental, spiritual, and behavioral. Yet, living with and responding to a mentally ill person often leads to the chaos of a relationship where the...

A Beginner's Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorders: Essential Information for Parents and Professionals

By: Paul G. Taylor

This short introduction is an ideal starting point for anyone encountering Autism Spectrum Disorder for the first time. The book covers all of the essential information needed to ground an understanding of the condition and offers effective practical...

And Then I Thought I Was a Fish

By: Peter Hunt Welch

ATIENT NAME: Peter Hunt Welch SEX: M ADMIT DATE: 10/18/2000 DOB: 02/28/1980 HISTORY OF PRESENTING ILLNESS: The patient was a fairly poor historian, appearing unable to provide a coherent description of the events preceding his current...

Before It's Too Late: Helping Women in Controlling or Abusive Relationships

By: Robert J. Ackerman

This book offers straightforward answers to the most frequently asked questions about women in controlling or abusive relationships. Robert Ackerman and Susan Pickering reveal the warning signs of controlling relationships and how women get caught...

Bodymind

By: Ken Dychtwald

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Break the Bipolar Cycle

By: Xavier Amador

Take control of your symptoms--and take charge of your lifeIf you're dealing with bipolar disorder, you already know that it’s more than a cycle of “ups” and “downs.” You may also have difficulty with depression and irritability,...

Children of Trauma: Rediscovering Your Discarded Self

By: Jane Middelton-Moz

Imagine what it would be like to become the healthiest person you could be..... This is the inherent right of each individual but when lingering emotional trauma from our childhood blocks the normal developmental process, we get struck....

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

By: Ethan Watters

The most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture across the globe has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters, but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself. American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and...

Crazy Love: Dealing with Your Partner's Problem Personality

By: W. Brad Johnson

Sheds light on the odd but surprisingly common disorders of personality. Psychologists Johnson and Murray tell us why so many of us are attracted to personality disordered partners, and offer strategies for detecting and avoiding such potential...

Facing Autism: Giving Parents Reasons for Hope and Guidance for Help

By: Lynn M. Hamilton

Don't Let Autism Have the Last Word in Your Child's Life.Perhaps one of the most devastating things you can learn as a parent is that your child has been diagnosed with autism. A multifaceted disorder, autism has long baffled parents and...

Final Lectures

By: Karen Horney

This book presents the lectures Karen Horney gave her class on psychoanalytic technique during the last year of her life.One of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud. Karen Horney was also a great teacher, with a...

Got Parts? An Insider's Guide to Managing Life Successfully with Dissociative Identity Disorder (New Horizons in Therapy)

By: A.T.W.

Finally a book for survivors written by a survivor!Got Parts? was written by a survivor of DID in association with her therapist and therapy group. This book is filled with successful coping techniques and strategies to enhance the day-to-day...

Insanity Offense

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"Vital for all working in the mental health field . . . . Fascinating reading for anyone." —ChoiceE. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a...

Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

By: Susan Sheehan

" A brilliantly documented chronicle of young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia."-- Willard Gaylin, The New Republic"Sylvia Frumkin," highly intelligent young girl, became a schizophrenic in her late teens and spent most of the...

Lost In The Shuffle: The Co-Dependent Reality

By: Robert Subby

"Co-dependency" is the denial or repression of the real self. It is based on the wrong belief that love, acceptance, security, success, closeness and salvation are all dependent upon one's ability to do "the right thing." In the process, the...

Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings

By: Clea Simon

In classic books such as Girl, Interrupted and When Rabbit Howls, the mentally ill depict their own harrowing worlds. In Mad House we have an account of the devastating effects of mental illness on the lives of those who share their world--the...

Made It Thru the Rain: To Light the Journey Ahead

By: Beverly Jones

Managing Meltdowns: Using the S.c.a.r.e.d Calming Technique With Children and Adults

By: Deborah Lipsky

In a chaotic or threatening situation, fear is the primary emotional response of an autistic individual. Often the initial physical response is to freeze. 'Meltdowns', or brain overloads can be scary for the individual with autism, and for the person...

Memory and Abuse: Remembering and Healing the Effects of Trauma

By: Charles L. Whitfield

Remembering what happened in any traumatic experience is basic and crucial to healing. For over 100 years the memory of abuse survivors has been questioned and challenged by all sorts of people, ranging from perpetrators to family members. More...

Mental Illness and Psychology

By: Michel Foucault

This seminal early work of Foucault is indispensable to understanding his development as a thinker. Written in 1954 and revised in 1962, Mental Illness and Psychology delineates the shift that occurred in Foucault's thought during this period. The...

Not Crazy: You May Not Be Mentally Ill

By: Charles L. Whitfield

Psychiatry today is not as advertised, as bestselling author Charles Whitfield describes in this scientifically accurate new book. It exposes the pseudo science behind modern biological psychiatry that misdiagnoses people who have painful ...

Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry

By: Carl Curt Pfeiffer

Believing that drugs and psychoanalysis were not always the best course of treatment for a variety of mental illnesses, Dr. Carl Pfeiffer began an extensive program of research into the causes and treatment of mental illness, and in 1973 opened the...

Psychoanalysis

By: Janet Malcolm

Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis.

Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry (Colophon Books)

By: William Glasser

Glasser's classic bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold, examines his alternative to Freudian psychoanalytic procedures, explains the procedure, contrasts it to conventional treatment, and describes different individual cases in which it was...