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Dancing with Medusa: a Life in Psychiatry

Author : H Michael Zal
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 144907118X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Medusa: a Life in Psychiatry written by H Michael Zal and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about Bella, a beautiful tale of caring, trust and emotional healing. It begins when Dr. Zal, a first-year resident in Psychiatry, meets a 20-year-old in the throws of a severe psychotic episode. It chronicles thirty-seven years of psychiatric treatment. Focusing on family relationships, he tells how both Bella and he resolved issues with a significant parent. Although his life was quite different, he was able to draw parallels that allowed him to empathize with some of her life events. Bella was a role model of strength, endurance and caring for her children and husband. She survived childhood abuse, molestation and a dysfunctional family background. In the end, mental illness did not ravish her life. Rather it was a physical disease. The book also shows how Dr. Zal changed from an inexperienced, anxious, psychiatric resident and become a wiser, more empathetic therapist. It illustrates how he learned to balance personal angst, the biologic basis of psychiatric illness and the uniqueness of the individual patient into a therapeutic tool. This balancing act, illustrated through Bellas story, is the dance with medusa that has occupied the core of his life in psychiatry. Dr. Zal is able to weave a 40-year history of psychiatry through this story, including sweeping changes in treatment, mental health laws and the role of the psychiatrist. Using Haverford State Hospital, he tells the story of the transition to community mental health. Bellas story is about hope, overcoming the stigma of mental illness and the role that determination can play in life success. Her accomplishments reinforce Dr. Zals firm belief that although psychiatric medications can facilitate improvement in mental disorders, it is people working with people, on a sustained long-term basis, that is equally or even more important, in maintaining recovery and producing emotional growth.

Dancing with Medus

Author : H. Michael Zal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781449071165
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Medus written by H. Michael Zal and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about Bella, a beautiful tale of caring, trust and emotional healing. It begins when Dr. Zal, a first-year resident in Psychiatry, meets a 20-year-old in the throws of a severe psychotic episode. It chronicles thirty-seven years of psychiatric treatment. Focusing on family relationships, he tells how both Bella and he resolved issues with a significant parent. Although his life was quite different, he was able to draw parallels that allowed him to empathize with some of her life events. Bella was a role model of strength, endurance and caring for her children and husband. She survived childhood abuse, molestation and a dysfunctional family background. In the end, mental illness did not ravish her life. Rather it was a physical disease. The book also shows how Dr. Zal changed from an inexperienced, anxious, psychiatric resident and become a wiser, more empathetic therapist. It illustrates how he learned to balance personal angst, the biologic basis of psychiatric illness and the uniqueness of the individual patient into a therapeutic tool. This balancing act, illustrated through Bella's story, is the dance with medusa that has occupied the core of his life in psychiatry. Dr. Zal is able to weave a 40-year history of psychiatry through this story, including sweeping changes in treatment, mental health laws and the role of the psychiatrist. Using Haverford State Hospital, he tells the story of the transition to community mental health. Bella's story is about hope, overcoming the stigma of mental illness and the role that determination can play in life success. Her accomplishments reinforce Dr. Zal's firm belief that although psychiatric medications can facilitate improvement in mental disorders, it is people working with people, on a sustained long-term basis, that is equally or even more important, in maintaining recovery and producing emotional growth.

The Great Pretender

Author : Susannah Cahalan
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538715260
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Great Pretender written by Susannah Cahalan and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR). Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--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 and seven other people--sane, healthy, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But, as Cahalan's explosive new research shows in this real-life detective story, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors?

A Psychiatrist's Guide to Successful Retirement and Aging

Author : H Michael Zal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442251247
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book A Psychiatrist's Guide to Successful Retirement and Aging written by H Michael Zal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the baby boomer generation becomes senior citizens and starts to flood into the last stage of life, a new definition and new expectations of retirement and aging are evolving. This is not your father’s way of being an older adult. People today tend not to retire in a traditional way. They envision getting older as a challenge to stay active and engaged, a chance to reinvent themselves, and an opportunity to reach for new goals. However, for some, this stage of life can be difficult, bringing with it a whole range of new challenges and obstacles. Along the way, many may deal with mental health problems such as stress and anxiety, grief and depression, drug and alcohol abuse, changes in marital and other relationships, as well as elder abuse. Are you ready? How will you fill your new free time? How will you cope with the psychological changes? Let this book, on coping with the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual issues of retirement and aging from a psychiatrist’s perspective, light the way. This book will help readers deal with common issues across a broad spectrum. It offers treatment options, suggests coping skills, and even deals with spiritual and emotional challenges at the end of life. It will help you invest in relationships, redefine your marriage, and broaden your horizons. It will allow you to take charge of your life in retirement and not just let it happen to you.

Psychiatry and Religion

Author : Dinesh Bhugra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134709706
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Psychiatry and Religion written by Dinesh Bhugra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 different philosophies have to offer each other for the benefit of the individuals in their care. The book as a whole: * sets the relationship between psychiatry and religion in historical context * provides detailed information about specific religions and the significance of their belief systems for mental health management * examines the relationship between psychopathology, psychiatry and religion.

Psychiatry and the Cinema

Author : Glen O. Gabbard
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780880489645
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Psychiatry and the Cinema written by Glen O. Gabbard and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry and the Cinema explores this complementary relationship from two angles, psychiatrists who have studied the movies and movies that have depicted psychiatry. This second edition has updated this definitive text with a discussion of new trends in psychoanalytically oriented film theory, and an expanded list of movies is analyzed.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Masculine Shame

Author : Mary Ayers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136721436
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Masculine Shame written by Mary Ayers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three parts areas of discussion include

Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry

Author : Dinesh Bhugra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316628507
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry written by Dinesh Bhugra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The textbook offers comprehensive understanding of the impact of cultural factors and differences on mental illness and its treatment.

Audiovisual Materials

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Audiovisual Materials written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1967 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)

The Sandwich Generation

Author : H. Michael Zal
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780738205816
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Sandwich Generation written by H. Michael Zal and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2001-08-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Films and Other Materials for Projection

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Films and Other Materials for Projection written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures

Author : Daniel Nehring
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429656181
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures written by Daniel Nehring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures explores central lines of enquiry and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology, and the happiness industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, politics, law, history, social work, cultural studies, development studies, and American Indian studies, it adopts a consciously global focus, combining studies of the psychologisation of social life from across the world. Thematically organised, it offers historical accounts of the growing prominence of therapeutic discourses and practices in everyday life, before moving to consider the construction of self-identity in the context of the diffusion of therapeutic discourses in connection with the global spread of capitalism. With attention to the ways in which emotional language has brought new problematisations of the dichotomy between the normal and the pathological, as well as significant transformations of key institutions, such as work, family, education, and religion, it examines emergent trends in therapeutic culture and explores the manner in which the advent of new therapeutic technologies, the political interest in happiness, and the radical privatisation and financialisation of social life converge to remake self-identities and modes of everyday experience. Finally, the volume features the work of scholars who have foregrounded the historical and contemporary implication of psychotherapeutic practices in processes of globalisation and colonial and postcolonial modes of social organisation. Presenting agenda-setting research to encourage interdisciplinary and international dialogue and foster the development of a distinctive new field of social research, The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in the advance of therapeutic discourses and practices in an increasingly psychologised society.

Living Biblically

Author : Kalman J. Kaplan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621898938
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Living Biblically written by Kalman J. Kaplan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Biblically de-situates biblical wisdom from its formally religious-theological underpinnings and offers it as a guide for fulfilled, happy living. Although over 95 percent of Americans have some sense of a meaning-providing transcendent power, 75 percent of clinical psychologists and psychiatrists lack such belief. Without intelligent, applicable access to biblical wisdom, many unwittingly live out the tragic patterns emerging from classical Greece underlying much of modern life and psychotherapy. People are stuck, even trapped, without hope of redemptive change. They spin their wheels, cycling back and forth. Biblical narratives, in contrast, portray people as growing, developing, and overcoming problematic life situations. This book presents a systematic yet readable delineation of how biblical wisdom can apply to ten issues of daily life: 1) Relating to the Environment, 2) Relating to Another as Yourself, 3) Relating to Authority, 4) Relating to the Opposite Sex, 5) Relating to a Son, 6) Relating to a Daughter, 7) Relating to Siblings, 8) Relating Body to Soul, 9) Relating to a Self-Destructive Person, and 10) Relating to Misfortune. In each chapter, a specific psychological issue is discussed, applicable Greek and biblical narratives are compared, and contemporary illustrations are provided, enabling the reader to live in a more fulfilling and happy manner.

The Secret Life of Another Indian Nationalism

Author : Shail Mayaram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832571
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Another Indian Nationalism written by Shail Mayaram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It highlights shifts over two centuries as the geopolitical context has transitioned from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana.