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Schizophrenia: A Strengths Perspective; Life Lessons Learned from Living with Schizophrenia

Author : Francis (Lcsw) Robert
Publisher : Urano World
ISBN 13 : 9781953027283
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Schizophrenia: A Strengths Perspective; Life Lessons Learned from Living with Schizophrenia written by Francis (Lcsw) Robert and published by Urano World. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Robert Francis has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia for longer than a quarter century. Over the many years, Robert has been intimately familiar with the commonly tempered expectations and diminished hopes for those living with schizophrenia to live a full and abundant life, similar to others. In his now third book on living with schizophrenia, Robert was driven to literary action, to flip the schizophrenia narrative from one of abundant deficits to one of abundant strengths. In Schizophrenia: A Strength's Perspective; Life Lessons Learned from Living with Schizophrenia, Robert details personal strengths and life lessons learned from living with schizophrenia for many years. The narrative shows a positive spin on the schizophrenia diagnosis as well as on its prognosis. Robert precludes such positive reflectivity as a simple or wishful pie-in-the-sky naïveté, and instead neatly details such positives as resoundingly rational, insightful, and genuine. Robert truly believes in recovery from schizophrenia, which includes a robust and fulfilling life, similar to everyone else, and the absence of the requisite "grim perspective". Across all literary domains, the strengths of living with schizophrenia are barely addressed, that is, until now. Join Robert as he spins a most positive perspective to living with schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia

Author : Robert Francis
Publisher : EDICIONES URANO
ISBN 13 : 1953027296
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Schizophrenia written by Robert Francis and published by EDICIONES URANO. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Robert Francis has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia for longer than a quarter century. Over the many years, Robert has been intimately familiar with the commonly tempered expectations and diminished hopes for those living with schizophrenia to live a full and abundant life, similar to others. In his now third book on living with schizophrenia, Robert was driven to literary action, to flip the schizophrenia narrative from one of abundant deficits to one of abundant strengths. In A Strength’s Perspective; Life Lessons Learned from Living with Schizophrenia, Robert details personal strengths and life lessons learned from living with schizophrenia for many years. The narrative shows a positive spin on the schizophrenia diagnosis as well as on its prognosis. Robert precludes such positive reflectivity as a simple or wishful pie-in-the-sky naïveté, and instead neatly details such positives as resoundingly rational, insightful, and genuine. Robert truly believes in recovery from schizophrenia, which includes a robust and fulfilling life, similar to everyone else, and the absence of the requisite “grim perspective”. Across all literary domains, the strengths of living with schizophrenia are barely addressed, that is, until now. Join Robert as he spins a most positive perspective to living with schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia

Author : Peter Kenneth Chadwick
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415142881
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Schizophrenia written by Peter Kenneth Chadwick and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspectivecounters a century-long tradition which has searched relentlessly for the critical deficits and dysfunctions in schizophrenic people. Peter Chadwick, who has himself suffered from the illness, shows that such people can demonstrate elevated creativity, empathy and social sensitivity and are by no means as irrational and misguided as is commonly thought. The author presents the fascinating case studies of some schizophrenics with whom he has worked. Using autobiography, biography, psychometric and experimental methods, he reveals areas of enhanced functioning in those vulnerable to the schizophrenia label, and argues for a much more positive picture of the schizophrenia-prone mind.

Living with Schizophrenia

Author : Stuart Emmons
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781560325567
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Living with Schizophrenia written by Stuart Emmons and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.

My Schizophrenic Life

Author : Sandra Yuen MacKay
Publisher : Bridgeross Communications
ISBN 13 : 0981003796
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book My Schizophrenic Life written by Sandra Yuen MacKay and published by Bridgeross Communications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in her life, Sandra started to exhibit the symptons of paranoid schizophrenia which came as a surprise to her unsuspecting family. Her book chronicles her struggles, hospitalisations, encounters with professionals, return to school, eventual marriage and success as an artist, writer, and advocate.

Advanced Family Work for Schizophrenia

Author : Julian P. Leff
Publisher : RCPsych Publications
ISBN 13 : 1904671276
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Family Work for Schizophrenia written by Julian P. Leff and published by RCPsych Publications. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives explanations of how to work with difficult schizophrenia cases. It describes 19 families with complex problems, explains the interventions that have been carried out by the community mental health team, and underlines the lessons learned.

Our Voices

Author : Colette Corr, Michael Dunn, Manisha Kapil, Claudia Moon and Pickens Miller
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440110395
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Voices by : Colette Corr, Michael Dunn, Manisha Kapil, Claudia Moon and Pickens Miller

Download or read book Our Voices written by Colette Corr, Michael Dunn, Manisha Kapil, Claudia Moon and Pickens Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you imagine giving voice to your greatest fears? Can you imagine wondering if what you know is true? Can you imagine being told you have schizophrenia? Who would you talk to? What would you do? We have experienced these very things. We are people who live every day with schizophrenia, and we want to share our stories. Our Voices tells you what it's like to be diagnosed with a major mental illness, to live with symptoms, and to navigate the mental health system. We created this book to share our personal perspectives and to illuminate the shared perceptions, experiences and challenges people with schizophrenia face. Colette, Manisha, Michael, Claudia and Pickens, the masterminds and architects of Our Voices, are writers, painters, poets, swimmers, activists, volunteers, readers, friends, and family members. Here they share their voices and those of 20 others, to illustrate the daily experience of schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia - It's Not What You Think

Author : Timothy R. Cameron
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664156984
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Schizophrenia - It's Not What You Think written by Timothy R. Cameron and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the author’s personal experience living with paranoia schizophrenia his entire life and how his strong faith in God helped him endure. The story tries to relate his experiences to you the reader who may have a similar mental illness and may need encouragement in carrying out your life to the best of your ability. Mental illness is a very real illness. The general population downplays it sometimes as a character defect in the individual. Research about the cause of mental illness points to a biological or genetic predisposition which could be inherited. For myself I believe it was inherited. I will get into my beliefs on that later on. The environment can also be a factor for some people who develop mental illness. Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that originates from malfunctioning signals from the brain that effect ones thought processes & behavior. Just because you are diagnosed later in life doesn’t mean you were not born with the illness. The illness has a broad effect on a person’s everyday functioning such as going to school, working, hygiene or social relationships. Once diagnosed with schizophrenia a person is effected usually in a negative manner. Their lives change dramatically. Their ability to carry on a normal routine becomes limited motivation is many times effected because of the side effects of the medication which they are taking. A person may feel tired & listless much of the time. Medication helps with the delusions and hallucinations that exist in an acute episode but can also slow a person down. Outside supports from family & friends can be a huge asset to someone with schizophrenia, exercise (if you can do it), meditation (relaxation techniques), a strong relationship with God, & a stable & secure living environment all can help in coping with the illness as well. Mental health professionals also can be a huge asset & wanting to get help by the person is definitely necessary.

Me, Myself, and Them : A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia

Author : Kurt Snyder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198042515
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Me, Myself, and Them : A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia written by Kurt Snyder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-10-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars were following him, or that strangers wanted to harm him. Kurt's mind had been hijacked by schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder that typically strikes during the late teen or young adult years. In Me, Myself, and Them, Kurt, now an adult, looks back from the vantage point of recovery and eloquently describes the debilitating changes in thoughts and perceptions that took hold of his life during his teens and twenties. As a memoir, this book is remarkable for its unvarnished look at the slow and difficult process of coming back from severe mental illness. Yet Kurt's memoir is only half the story. With the help of psychiatrist Raquel E. Gur, M.D., Ph.D., and veteran science writer Linda Wasmer Andrews, Kurt paints the big picture for others affected by adolescent schizophrenia. Drawing on the latest scientific and medical evidence, he explains how to recognize warning signs, where to find help, and what treatments have proved effective. Kurt also offers practical advice on topics of particular interest to young people, such as suggestions on managing the illness at home, school, and work, and in relationships with family and friends. Part of the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative series of books written specifically for teens and young adults, My, Myself, and Them offers hope to young people who are struggling with schizophrenia, helping them to understand and manage the challenges of this illness and go on to lead healthy lives.

The Essential Schizophrenia Companion: with Foreword by Elyn R. Saks, Phd, Jd

Author : Robert Francis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663208611
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Schizophrenia Companion: with Foreword by Elyn R. Saks, Phd, Jd written by Robert Francis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a quarter of a century, author Robert Francis has been living with schizophrenia and its entanglements. Diagnosed at the age of twenty-four, he understands firsthand the implications. In The Essential Schizophrenia Companion, he offers insight into his life based on his personal experiences from the perspective of a patient and as a licensed clinical social worker and mental health talk-therapist. Geared toward individuals with schizophrenia, their families, and for providers who work with them, Francis offers a quick and powerful reference guide discussing all you need to know about schizophrenia. The Essential Schizophrenia Companion, the second book about this mental health issue by Francis, offers his newest insights and reflections on what it takes for a gainful recovery from schizophrenia. It is about living life with schizophrenia similarly to the rest of shared humanity. It is about gainfully living a full life in all one’s chosen life realms.

Strength Based Perspective in Working with Clients with Mental Illness

Author : Kam-Shing Yip
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781600218798
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Strength Based Perspective in Working with Clients with Mental Illness written by Kam-Shing Yip and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers to serve as a guide for professionals in understanding and applying a strength based perspectives for Chinese clients with mental illness and to discuss the Chinese articulation of concepts and practice of these perspective within Chinese culture. Ever since the emergence of a medical model in the explanation of mental illness, the disease model or deficit/problem orientation became the dominant paradigm in perceiving, treating and rehabilitating persons with mental illness. The terms 'mentally ill' and 'mental patient' serve as labels for both professionals, family caregivers and members of community to describe the burden, the needs of care and treatment for persons with mental illness. These labels also justify the establishment and implementation of mental health services. Under the influences of the disease model, persons with mental illness are regarded as subjects for academic research, patients for treatment, clients for intervention, and objects for stigmatisation and labelling.

On Conquering Schizophrenia

Author : Robert Francis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532069898
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book On Conquering Schizophrenia written by Robert Francis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Conquering Schizophrenia addresses the topic of schizophrenia like never written. Author Robert Francis offers a revelatory and breakthrough paradigm regarding the relegation and defeat of schizophrenia hither yet present in the topical annals. In his conceptualization, Francis offers both a theoretical clarity along with the necessary pragmatics. And along the way, in a seemingly effortless stream of topic and word, Francis also broaches the topics of metaphysics, philosophy, theology, literary form, and humor while all the while crafting a long overdue methodology to conquering schizophrenia. As the reader peruses the pages, Francis’s personal touch and affinity for his audience will quickly be experienced and felt. This is not only a book on conquering schizophrenia but also on the greater life experience, including overcoming all typical generalized afflictions. This truly is a book with no precedent!

A Schizophrenic Will

Author : William Jiang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781311423597
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book A Schizophrenic Will written by William Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many biographies of people with mental illness seem to dwell primarily on the feeling of hopelessness, and they keep expectations for the sufferer's future low. With this autobiography, Mr. Jiang attempts to turn the tables on this litany of sorrow. He shows himself as a result of the miracles that modern medicine can produce. He went from being a basket case to a respected, technologically-savvy medical librarian working at a world-renowned research institution.People who recommend this book include schizophrenia expert Dr. Lieberman:A talented ambitious young student is afflicted by the most dread mental illness in the prime of his life. This first person account describes this all to common occurrence but what is unique is how he reacts to this adversity and his courageous and successful journey to recovery. Will Jiang's impressive and moving story is reminiscent of other similar first person accounts of personal struggle and triumph over mental illness including Elyn Saks' The Center Cannot Hold and Temple Grandin's Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism. Will's story will be similarly informative and inspirational to everyone who has the good fortune to read it.Jeffrey Lieberman, M.D.President, American Psychiatric AssociationLawrence E. Kolb Professor and ChairmanDepartment of PsychiatryColumbia University College of Physicians and SurgeonsDirector of the New York State Psychiatric InstituteIn "A Schizophrenic Will," William Jiang tells a riveting and compelling story about his struggles with schizophrenia and his emergence at the other end with a good and productive and gratifying professional and personal life. He also gives advice to other consumers, e.g. on navigating college, and who knows better than someone who's lived through it himself? Jiang's story should help people understand what schizophrenia is like and in the process destigmatize an illness that is badly in need of destigmatization.Elyn Saks, J.D., Ph.D. USC Gould School of Law, Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral SciencesAward Winning Author, The Center Cannot HoldWith an incredible strength of will William Jiang describes his life dealing with one of the hardest conditions to live with: schizophrenia. Again and again he fights against the disease and despite all odds secures a professional career and fulfilled life. A must read for any person coping with schizophrenia, whether you are a sufferer, relative, friend, physician, or scientist working on mental disorders.Christoph Kellendonk, PhDAssistant Professor of Pharmacology and PsychiatryColumbia UniversityWill Jiang's experiences as detailed in his book are a wonder to read and can help you understand schizophrenia better. I highly recommend it.Dan Frey, BA Editor-in-Chief New York City Voices, a Journal for Mental Health AdvocacyThis inspirational story is a great read for anybody, but family and friends of those suffering with schizophrenia will especially find it useful for learning what is like to live with schizophrenia.Leaf Jiang, PhD

Schizophrenia

Author : Melissa Abramovitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560069089
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Schizophrenia written by Melissa Abramovitz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schizophrenia is one of the most feared diseases in the world. The history, causes, treatments, and personal struggles of patients with this serious mental disorder are explored in depth.

The Center Cannot Hold

Author : Elyn R. Saks
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401389546
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Center Cannot Hold written by Elyn R. Saks and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-praised memoir of living and surviving mental illness as well as "a stereotype-shattering look at a tenacious woman whose brain is her best friend and her worst enemy" (Time). Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry, and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and still has ongoing major episodes of the illness. The Center Cannot Hold is the eloquent, moving story of Elyn's life, from the first time that she heard voices speaking to her as a young teenager, to attempted suicides in college, through learning to live on her own as an adult in an often terrifying world. Saks discusses frankly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, the voices in her head telling her to kill herself (and to harm others), as well as the incredibly difficult obstacles she overcame to become a highly respected professional. This beautifully written memoir is destined to become a classic in its genre.

Schizophrenia - It's Not What You Think

Author : Timothy R. Cameron
Publisher : Xlibris Us
ISBN 13 : 9781664156975
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Schizophrenia - It's Not What You Think written by Timothy R. Cameron and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the author's personal experience living with paranoia schizophrenia his entire life and how his strong faith in God helped him endure. The story tries to relate his experiences to you the reader who may have a similar mental illness and may need encouragement in carrying out your life to the best of your ability. Mental illness is a very real illness. The general population downplays it sometimes as a character defect in the individual. Research about the cause of mental illness points to a biological or genetic predisposition which could be inherited. For myself I believe it was inherited. I will get into my beliefs on that later on. The environment can also be a factor for some people who develop mental illness. Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that originates from malfunctioning signals from the brain that effect ones thought processes & behavior. Just because you are diagnosed later in life doesn't mean you were not born with the illness. The illness has a broad effect on a person's everyday functioning such as going to school, working, hygiene or social relationships. Once diagnosed with schizophrenia a person is effected usually in a negative manner. Their lives change dramatically. Their ability to carry on a normal routine becomes limited motivation is many times effected because of the side effects of the medication which they are taking. A person may feel tired & listless much of the time. Medication helps with the delusions and hallucinations that exist in an acute episode but can also slow a person down. Outside supports from family & friends can be a huge asset to someone with schizophrenia, exercise (if you can do it), meditation (relaxation techniques), a strong relationship with God, & a stable & secure living environment all can help in coping with the illness as well. Mental health professionals also can be a huge asset & wanting to get help by the person is definitely necessary.

Living with Schizophrenia

Author : Jonathan Stone
Publisher : Martha
ISBN 13 : 9781446166178
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Living with Schizophrenia written by Jonathan Stone and published by Martha. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written to inform and reinforce the idea of hope, recovery, and a normal life for people affected by mental illness. The stigma of mental illness hurts schizophrenics and their families. Stigma, the invisible beast, limits peoples' access to services in the community and even support from family but we can educate and fight against stigma. Despite their disability, people with schizophrenia have normal or above average intelligence and may be highly creative. Antidiscrimination legislation is needed, along with support for families and communities striving to include those with schizophrenia.