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Author : Dan A. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Worlds of the Mentally Ill written by Dan A. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Desjarlais
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195113112
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (131 download)
Download or read book World Mental Health written by Robert Desjarlais and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the result of several years of collaboration between experts from more than 19 countries and researchers in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The authors examine key findings on mental illness and mental health services; suicide; substance abuse; the mental health problems of women, children and the elderly; violence; dislocation; and health-related behavior in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. They recommend new actions in mental health services, in public health and public policy, as well as an agenda for research. For all who are interested in the global context of mental health and in development, this very readable volume with its numerous case studies, illustrations and tables will be an invaluable resource.
Author : Dan A. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Worlds of the Mentally Ill written by Dan A. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis offers a radically different perspective on care of the mentally ill now that these patients are no longer isolated from society. This book is based on a series of interviews conducted with 313 Chicago area patients released from four different state hospitals. Rather than rely on retrospective data-gathering on patients at intake, Lewis began at the time of release, tracking the patients for 12 months during which they were interviewed twice. This approach permitted Lewis and his researchers to discover where the patients went, whom they turned to for help, how they viewed themselves and their illness, and how they fared. Former patients who had lost their homes and support networks by alienating families and employers ended up on the streets and eventually in jail. Half of the patients interviewed had criminal records, a third of them having committed felonies. Of the former patients who returned to mental institutions, 97 percent did so voluntarily. One-fifth of those recommitted themselves because they lacked jobs and housing. Lewis says the government can help by providing more welfare funding, medication aid, support to patients’ families, and homeless shelters with qualified counselors. "If we don’t do anything about the poverty, we can’t do anything about the mental illness. We must tie work and welfare to treatment settings."
Author : Patrick J. Bracken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198526094
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Postpsychiatry written by Patrick J. Bracken and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us the words madness and psychosis conjure up fear and images of violence. Using short stories, the authors consider complex philosphical issues from a fresh perspective. The current debates about mental health policy and practice are placed into their historical and cultural contexts.
Author : James Aloysius Magner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Mental Health in a Mad World written by James Aloysius Magner and published by . This book was released on 2025-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jez Hughes
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786786001
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Wisdom of Mental Illness written by Jez Hughes and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the ancient path of shamanism can help us to understand the nature of mental illness, recasting psychological breakdown as a potentially transformational experience. What we label as pathological could actually be an initiation into a better relationship with ourselves and the world. Written for those who are experiencing or who have experienced mental illness, or whose loved ones are going through such episodes, or who are mental wellbeing practitioners, this is a guide to the potentially transformational experience of that which we label mental illness. It explores the ancient concept of the "shamanic sickness", whereby the prospective shaman underwent many years of mental distress as part of their initiation, and looks at what this can teach us about mental health. It argues that, in some cases, what we seek to medicate could actually be a calling to a path of service and healing. The book also explores our cultural biases around mental illness. What we define as pathological, many cultures see as a sign of being inspired and in touch with greater powers. It looks at our uneasy relationship with altered states of consciousness and how these might hold the key to healing many symptoms of mental illness. Finally it looks at how we, as species, have come out of balance in our relationship to nature and the devastating affect this is having on our mental health. By learning from ancient indigenous cultures who have remained in balance with the natural world, this book looks at solutions to heal this modern imbalance and find a way forward for the Earth and ourselves.
Author : Beth Revis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101627840
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book A World Without You written by Beth Revis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do to bring back someone you love? After the unexpected loss of his girlfriend, a boy suffering from delusions believes he can travel through time to save her in this gripping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis. "A story that’s both heartbreaking and hopeful." —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Revis’s account of grief, loss, first love, and anguish, presented through a lens of mental illness, is a must-read.” —VOYA, starred review “A heartrending, beautifully complex look at mental illness, life, and loss. I tore through the pages, and, days later, this story still has a hold on me.” —Alexandra Bracken, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Darkest Minds series and Passenger Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he’s actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have "superpowers." At Berkshire, Bo falls in love with Sofia, a quiet girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. Sofia helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofia, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age. But even the strength of their love isn’t enough to help Sofia escape her deep depression. After she commits suicide, Bo is convinced that she's not actually dead. He believes that she's stuck somewhere in time — that he somehow left her in the past, and now it's his job to save her. Not since Ned Vizzini’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story has there been such a heartrending depiction of mental illness. In her first contemporary novel, Beth Revis guides readers through the mind of a young man struggling to process his grief as he fights his way through his delusions. As Bo becomes more and more determined to save Sofia, he has to decide whether to face his demons head-on, or succumb to a psychosis that will let him be with the girl he loves.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Worlds of the Mentally Ill written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan J. Stein
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128222018
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Mental Health in a Digital World written by Dan J. Stein and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental Health in a Digital World addresses mental health assessments and interventions using digital technology, including mobile phones, wearable devices and related technologies. Sections discuss mental health data collection and analysis for purposes of assessment and treatment, including the use of electronic medical records and information technologies to improve services and research, the use of digital technologies to enhance communication, psychoeducation, screening for mental disorders, the problematic use of the internet, including internet gambling and gaming, cybersex and cyberchondria, and internet interventions, ranging from online psychotherapy to mobile phone apps and virtual reality adjuncts to psychotherapy. Reviews research and applications of digital technology to mental health Includes digital technologies for assessment, intervention, communication and education Addresses data collection and analysis, service delivery and the therapeutic relationship Discusses the E-related disorders that complicate digital intervention
Author : Donna R. Kemp
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 : 1851097899
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Mental Health in America written by Donna R. Kemp and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Jack El-Hai
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470098309
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Lobotomist written by Jack El-Hai and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-02-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Drawing on Freeman’s documents and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look at the life and work of this complex scientific genius. The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Although many patients did not benefit from the thousands of lobotomies Freeman performed, others believed their lobotomies changed them for the better. Drawing on a rich collection of documents Freeman left behind and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look into the life of this complex scientific genius and traces the physician's fascinating life and work.
Author : Nassir Ghaemi
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143121332
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book A First-Rate Madness written by Nassir Ghaemi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller “A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . .” —The Boston Globe “A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi’s book deserves high marks for original thinking.” —The Washington Post “Provocative, fascinating.” —Salon.com Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: The very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. From the importance of Lincoln's "depressive realism" to the lackluster leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain, A First-Rate Madness overturns many of our most cherished perceptions about greatness and the mind.
Author : Ugo Ikwuka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000382885
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Living with Mental Illness in a Globalised World written by Ugo Ikwuka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with Mental Illness in a Globalised World systematically examines the manifold contributions to the burdens of living with mental illness in a developing and globalised world. It explores the stigma of mental illness, the burden of which compares to the symptoms of and is sometimes considered more disabling than the illness itself. The book starts by reviewing the socio-psychological and cultural processes that contribute to stigma and providing evidence-based interventions to combat it. Chapters critically investigate the ideological and instrumental barriers to mental healthcare and establish that determining the conceptualisations of mental illness helps to unravel the reasons for the underutilisation of mental health services. A compelling case is made for a complementary healthcare model and bottom-up approach that is sensitive to the spiritual and cultural needs of the people. The text’s specific examination of mental healthcare in African countries makes it a timely piece for assisting mental health professionals in understanding the inequities in care that Black Asian and Minority Ethnic groups face and how to improve mental healthcare and delivery to these groups.
Author : China Mills
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135080437
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Decolonizing Global Mental Health written by China Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonizing Global Mental Health is a book that maps a strange irony. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Movement for Global Mental Health are calling to ‘scale up’ access to psychological and psychiatric treatments globally, particularly within the global South. Simultaneously, in the global North, psychiatry and its often chemical treatments are coming under increased criticism (from both those who take the medication and those in the position to prescribe it). The book argues that it is imperative to explore what counts as evidence within Global Mental Health, and seeks to de-familiarize current ‘Western’ conceptions of psychology and psychiatry using postcolonial theory. It leads us to wonder whether we should call for equality in global access to psychiatry, whether everyone should have the right to a psychotropic citizenship and whether mental health can, or should, be global. As such, it is ideal reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers in the fields of critical psychology and psychiatry, social and health psychology, cultural studies, public health and social work.
Author : Ethan Watters
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416587195
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Crazy Like Us written by Ethan Watters and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A blistering and truly original work of reporting and analysis, uncovering America’s role in homogenizing how the world defines wellness and healing” (Po Bronson). In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We are in the process of homogenizing the way the world goes mad. It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for? American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions, and the virus is us. Traveling from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka to Zanzibar to Japan, acclaimed journalist Ethan Watters witnesses firsthand how Western healers often steamroll indigenous expressions of mental health and madness and replace them with our own. In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
Author : Mark Stevens
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473842387
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Life in the Victorian Asylum written by Mark Stevens and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrait of the day-to-day experience in the public asylums of nineteenth-century England, by the bestselling author of Broadmoor Revealed. Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of nineteenth-century public asylums. This fresh take on the history of mental health reveals why county asylums were built, the sort of people they housed, and the treatments they received, as well as the enduring legacy of these remarkable institutions. Mark Stevens, a professional archivist, and expert on asylum records, delves into Victorian mental health hospital documents to recreate the experience of entering an asylum and being treated there—perhaps for a lifetime. Praise for Broadmoor Revealed “Superb.” —Family Tree magazine “Detailed and thoughtful.” —Times Literary Supplement “Paints a fascinating picture.” —Who Do You Think You Are? magazine
Author : Ihsan Al-Issa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823633371
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Al-Junūn written by Ihsan Al-Issa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters on religion and psychopathology, mental illness in medieval Islamic society, and forensic psychiatry under Islamic law, are followed by chapters on psychopathology in the diverse cultures of Algeria, the Arab Gulf, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, and the mental health of Muslims who live in the West. The book concludes with chapters on psychotherapy in Islamic society, sex and sexual dysfunction."--BOOK JACKET.
