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Facts and Fictions in Mental Health

Author : Hal Arkowitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118311302
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Facts and Fictions in Mental Health written by Hal Arkowitz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a lively and entertaining style, Facts and Fictions in Mental Health examines common conceptions and misconceptions surrounding mental health and its treatment. Each chapter focuses on a misconception and is followed by a discussion of related findings from scientific research. A compilation of the authors' "Facts and Fictions" columns written for Scientific American Mind, with the addition of six new columns exclusive to this book Written in a lively and often entertaining style, accessible to both the undergraduate and the interested general reader Each chapter covers a different "fiction" and allows readers to gain a more balanced and accurate view of important topics in mental health The six new columns examine myths and misconceptions of considerable interest and relevance to undergraduates in abnormal psychology courses Introductory material and references are included throughout the book

Facts on Mental Health and Mental Illness

Author : National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Facts on Mental Health and Mental Illness written by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fact and Fiction

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135195250
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Fact and Fiction written by Bertrand Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Russell reflects on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. This book provides valuable insight into the range of interests and depth of conviction of one of the world’s greatest philosophers.

Administration in Mental Health

Author : National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Administration in Mental Health written by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands

Author :
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042007758
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands written by and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-psychiatry' is a movement more sloganized than analysed. Until now it has been associated in the English-speaking world primarily with R.D. Laing and a coterie of his associates, and a radical critique not just of psychiatric hospitalization but of the very premises of psychiatry itself and the basic institutions of society, especially the family. But are these notions accurate, or rather distorted images, created by Laing himself or by the media? In this book, which has emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch conference held in June 1997, the realities of critical psychiatry are explored, using comparisons and contrasts between the British and the Dutch experiences as a probe. There were, it turns out, various distinct anti-psychiatries - indeed, hardly anybody actually used that label about themselves - and they played a role in the reform no less than the rejection of regular psychiatry.

Destigmatising mental illness?

Author : Vicky Long
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526103265
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Destigmatising mental illness? written by Vicky Long and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study of mental healthcare workers’ efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigma of mental illness. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book argues that psychiatrists, nurses and social workers generated representations of mental illness which reflected their professional aspirations, economic motivations and perceptions of the public. Sharing in the stigma of their patients, healthcare workers sought to enhance the prestige of their professions by focussing upon the ability of psychiatry to effectively treat acute cases of mental disturbance. As a consequence, healthcare workers inadvertently reinforced the stigma attached to serious and enduring mental distress. This book makes a major contribution to the history of mental healthcare, and critiques current campaigns which seek to end mental health discrimination for failing to address the political, economic and social factors which fuel discrimination. It will appeal to academics, students, healthcare practitioners and service users.

The Book of Woe

Author : Gary Greenberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101621109
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Woe written by Gary Greenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gary Greenberg has become the Dante of our psychiatric age, and the DSM-5 is his Inferno.” —Errol Morris Since its debut in 1952, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has set down the “official” view on what constitutes mental illness. Homosexuality, for instance, was a mental illness until 1973. Each revision has created controversy, but the DSM-5 has taken fire for encouraging doctors to diagnose more illnesses—and to prescribe sometimes unnecessary or harmful medications. Respected author and practicing psychotherapist Gary Greenberg embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition, and returned with an unsettling tale. Exposing the deeply flawed process behind the DSM-5’s compilation, The Book of Woe reveals how the manual turns suffering into a commodity—and made the APA its own biggest beneficiary.

Under the Medical Gaze

Author : Susan Greenhalgh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520925092
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Under the Medical Gaze written by Susan Greenhalgh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-05-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power plays, and shrewd detective work. Setting a new standard for the practice of autoethnography, Susan Greenhalgh presents a case study of her intense encounter with an enthusiastic young specialist who, through creative interpretation of the diagnostic criteria for a newly emerging chronic disease, became convinced she had a painful, essentially untreatable, lifelong muscle condition called fibromyalgia. Greenhalgh traces the ruinous effects of this diagnosis on her inner world, bodily health, and overall well-being. Under the Medical Gaze serves as a powerful illustration of medicine's power to create and inflict suffering, to define disease and the self, and to manage relationships and lives. Greenhalgh ultimately learns that she had been misdiagnosed and begins the long process of undoing the physical and emotional damage brought about by her nearly catastrophic treatment. In considering how things could go so awry, she embarks on a cogent and powerful analysis of the sociopolitical sources of pain through feminist, cultural, and political understandings of the nature of medical discourse and practice in the United States. She develops fresh arguments about the power of medicine to medicalize our selves and lives, the seductions of medical science, and the deep, psychologically rooted difficulties women patients face in interactions with male physicians. In the end, Under the Medical Gaze goes beyond the critique of biomedicine to probe the social roots of chronic pain and therapeutic alternatives that rely on neither the body-cure of conventional medicine nor the mind-cure of some alternative medicines, but rather a broader set of strategies that address the sociopolitical sources of pain.

Facts on Mental Health and Mental Illness

Author : National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facts on Mental Health and Mental Illness written by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Invitation to Wellness

Author : Jeanette Keil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780961623012
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Invitation to Wellness written by Jeanette Keil and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invitation to Wellness is a book of hope, a much needed perspective in the mental health field. It presents a daring view of the dynamics associated with mental illness. Written in the form of a fable, this fictional story is based on fact. The reader is transported fom the beginning of time to the present. Clients, family members, and providers of mental health sevices are introduced as individuals in isolation from others and even themselves. Unfettered by their usual roles, they come together to communicate. Open sharing beings forth new insights. The heartbreaking realities most people endure are revealed when their worlds revolve around their mental illness or that of a loved one.

Mental Illness

Author : Dick Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780901944108
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Mental Illness written by Dick Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Communicating Mental Health

Author : Lance R. Lippert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498578020
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Communicating Mental Health written by Lance R. Lippert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicating Mental Health: History, Contexts, and Perspectives explores mental health through the lens of the communication discipline. In the first section, contributors describe the major contributions of the communication discipline as it pertains to a broader perspective and stigma of mental health. In the second section, contributors investigate mental health through various narrative perspectives. In the third and fourth sections, contributors consider many applied contexts such as media, education, and family. At the conclusion, contributors discuss the ways in which future inquiries regarding mental health in the communication discipline can be investigated. Scholars of health communication, mental health, psychology, history, and sociology will find this volume particularly useful.

Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions

Author : Gerald P. Koocher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199882053
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions written by Gerald P. Koocher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-16 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most mental health professionals and behavioral scientists enter the field with a strong desire to help others, but clinical practice and research endeavors often involve decision-making in the context of ethical ambiguity. Good intentions are important, but unfortunately, they do not always protect the practitioner and client from breaches in ethical conduct. Academics, researchers, and students also face a range of ethical challenges from the classroom to the laboratory. Now in a new expanded edition, Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions, the most widely read and cited ethics textbook in psychology, has emerged with a broadened scope extending across the mental health and behavioral science fields. The revised volume considers many of the ethical questions and dilemmas that mental health professionals encounter in their everyday practice, research, and teaching. The book has been completely updated and is now also relevant for counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, and psychiatrists, and includes the ethics codes of those groups as appendices. Providing both a critical assessment and elucidation of key topics in the APA's guidelines, this comprehensive volume takes a practical approach to ethics and offers constructive means for both preventing problems, recognizing, approaching, and resolving ethical predicaments. Written in a highly readable and accessible style, this new edition retains the key features which have contributed to its popularity, including hundreds of case studies that provide illustrative guidance on a wide variety of topics, including fee setting, advertising for clients, research ethics, sexual attraction, how to confront observed unethical conduct in others, and confidentiality, among others. Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions will be important reading for practitioners and students-in training. An instructors manual is available for professors on http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195149111

Challenging Behavior of Persons with Mental Health Disorders and Severe Developmental Disabilities

Author : Gary N. Siperstein
Publisher : American Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Challenging Behavior of Persons with Mental Health Disorders and Severe Developmental Disabilities written by Gary N. Siperstein and published by American Association. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diagnosis and treatment of persons with severe intellectual disabilities who have mental health disorders,often manifested by challenging behaviours has often been a concern for service providers and caregivers. This book covers the dual diagnosis, pharmacology and behavioral strategies with an emphasis on treatment.

Mental Health

Author : William Schultz
Publisher : Theran Press
ISBN 13 : 9781944296124
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Mental Health written by William Schultz and published by Theran Press. This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past twenty years have manifested worrying trends in the field of mental health in the United States. Most concerning is the increasingly popular idea that mental disorders are best understood as brain disorders. From this point of view, when confronted with an overly-energetic little boy, parents are informed that their son has a "brain disease" which causes inattention and hyperactivity and that this disease is best treated with drugs. Likewise, a person suffering from a major depressive disorder is told that her depression is caused by a "chemical imbalance" in her brain and that this imbalance is best treated with other chemicals that can restore equilibrium to her brain's chemistry. The idea is not just common - it is ubiquitous. "Everyone knows that mental illness is caused by the brain; those are the facts." And therein lies the problem. Those are not the facts. In this groundbreaking study, William Schultz demonstrates on both philosophical and scientific grounds that mental disorders are best understood not as brain disorders, but rather as solvable problems of personal agency and meaning. This book is essential reading for clinicians, practitioners, philosophers, and any interested in the future of mental health.

The Encyclopedia of Mental Health

Author : Ada P. Kahn
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438120966
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Mental Health written by Ada P. Kahn and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, mental health disorders led to more than 40 million doctor visits and 2 million emergency room visits in 2002. This guide sorts through a maze of professional jargon to provide incisive definitions of theories, syndromes, symptoms, treatments, and contemporary issues.

A Lethal Inheritance

Author : Victoria Costello
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 161614467X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book A Lethal Inheritance written by Victoria Costello and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every family has secrets; only some secrets are lethal. In Victoria Costello’s family mental illness had been given many names over at least four generations until this inherited conspiracy of silence finally endangered the youngest members of the family, her children. In this riveting story—part memoir, detective story, and scientific investigation—the author recounts how the mental unraveling of her seventeen-year-old son Alex compelled her to look back into family history for clues to his condition. Eventually she tied Alex’s descent into hallucinations and months of shoeless wandering on the streets of Los Angeles to his great grandfather’s suicide on a New York City railroad track in 1913. But this insight brought no quick relief. Within two years of Alex’s diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, both she and her youngest son succumbed to two different mental disorders: major depression and anxiety disorder. Costello depicts her struggle to get the best possible mental health care for her sons and herself, treatment that ultimately brings each of them to full recovery. In the process, she discovers new science that explains how clusters of mental illness traverse family generations. Artfully weaving the scientific into the personal, Costello takes a journey to the far reaches of neuroscience and reports back on the startling findings it is yielding about the complex interplay between genes and environment that drives mental illness, and what it now tells us about how parents can trump a lethal inheritance. She shares the results of long-term U.K. and European family studies identifying the earliest signs of mental illnesses that can be passed on from grandparents to parents and grandchildren. She tracks ongoing clinical trials to reverse the courses of these diseases through early intervention with the latest evidence-based treatments and offers brain-healthy choices individuals and families can make to prevent mental illness—freeing future generations to live healthier, happier lives.