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Disorders

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Disorders


Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for ...‎

Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for ... John Elder Robison - 2011 - Medical - Limited preview
The author of Look Me in the Eye presents an anecdotal guide to individuals with Asperger's and their families that offers insight into the Aspergian mind while outlining recommendations for improving communication skills and embracing differences.
 

Long Shot: My Bipolar Life and the Horses Who Saved Me‎

Long Shot: My Bipolar Life and the Horses Who Saved Me Sylvia Harris - 2011 - No preview available
 

Haunted by combat: understanding PTSD in war veterans including women ...‎

Haunted by combat: understanding PTSD in war veterans including women ... Daryl S. Paulson, Stanley Krippner - 2007 - History - Limited preview
Two psychologists - one a combat veteran - take us into the terrifying world of service men and women with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, explaining current war scenarios with a concentration on experiences in Iraq.
 

Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story‎

Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story Patrick Cockburn, Henry Cockburn - 2011 - Family & Relationships - Limited preview
A journalist's memoir, written with his son, about his son's descent into schizophrenia--a profoundly moving account of mental illness in the family.
 

War‎

War Sebastian Junger - 2010 - No preview available
 

You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know‎

You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know Heather Sellers - 2010 - No preview available
 

Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention‎

Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention Katherine Ellison - 2010 - No preview available
 

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans ...‎

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans ... Melanie Thernstrom - 2010 - Medical - Limited preview
Arguing that the American medical industry adheres to outdated pain-management practices that fail to bring effective relief to millions of patients, a history of pain management describes some of the colorful approaches of past cultures while ...
 

Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness‎

Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness Otto F. Wahl - 1997 - Psychology - Limited preview
From Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Kojak, and Melrose Place, from books, music, cartoons, advertising, and newspapers, we all derive our images of mental illness. These omnipresent media portrayals are at the least insensitive, inaccurate, and ...
 

Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates‎

Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates Suzanne O'Malley - 2004 - True Crime - Limited preview
In the tradition of "In Cold Blood, The Executioner's Song, " and "A Civil Action, " Suzanne O'Malley exposes the human mystery of the most horrifying crime in recent history and the legal drama surrounding it. As a journalist, Suzanne O'Malley ...

Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a ...‎

Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a ... Daniel Carlat - 2010 - Medical - Limited preview
Psychiatrist reveals how his profession has gone off the rails.
 

ADHD: a complete and authoritative guide‎

ADHD: a complete and authoritative guide Michael I. Reiff, Sherill Tippins, American Academy of Pediatrics - 2004 - No preview available
 

Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia‎

Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia Patrick Tracey - 2008 - Psychology - Limited preview
Interweaving personal reminscences with historical notes, scientific research, and folklore, the author looks at his own family's battle with the scourge of schizophrenia, tracing the origins of the disease through earlier generations of his ...
 

Rex: A Mother, Her Autistic Child, and the Music That Transformed Their Lives‎

Rex: A Mother, Her Autistic Child, and the Music That Transformed Their Lives Cathleen Lewis - 2008 - Family & Relationships - Limited preview
Describes the transformation of the lives of a mother and her young son who was born blind and autistic by the discovery of his prodigious musical talent.
 

The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives‎

The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives Brian Dillon - 2010 - Psychology - Limited preview
"A history of hypochondria as reflected by nine historical figures explores the relationship between the mind and body as it is mediated by the fear of illness, providing insight into the mental states of such individuals as Charlotte Brontë ...
 

Prozac nation: young and depressed in America‎

Prozac nation: young and depressed in America Elizabeth Wurtzel - 1995 - Biography & Autobiography - Snippet view
 

The Eden Express: A Memoir of Schizophrenia‎

The Eden Express: A Memoir of Schizophrenia Mark Vonnegut - 2003 - Psychology - Limited preview
"Most diseases can be separated from one's self . . . schizophrenia is something we are." So begins Mark Vonnegut's depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness. This edition features a new Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut ...
 

Lie down in darkness‎

Lie down in darkness William Styron - 1992 - Fiction - Snippet view
 

Darkness visible: a memoir of madness‎

Darkness visible: a memoir of madness William Styron - 1990 - Psychology - Snippet view
 

 

Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life‎

Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life Allen Shawn - 2008 - Fiction - Limited preview
The memoir of the agoraphobic son of New Yorker editor William Shawn describes his relationship with his brilliant playwright and actor brother Wallace, his twin sister's institutionalization for autism at the age of eight, and the strict ...
 

 

How We Age: A Doctor's Journey Into the Heart of Growing Old‎

How We Age: A Doctor's Journey Into the Heart of Growing Old Marc Agronin - 2011 - No preview available
 

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your ...‎

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your ... Martin E P Seligman, Ph.D. - 2002 - Self-Help - Limited preview
Over a decade ago, Martin Seligman charted a new approach to living with "flexible optimism." Now, in his most stimulating and persuasive book to date, the bestselling author of "Learned Optimism" introduces the revolutionary, scientifically ...
 

Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a ...‎

Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a ... Daniel Carlat - 2010 - Medical - Limited preview
Psychiatrist reveals how his profession has gone off the rails.
 

Try to remember: psychiatry's clash over meaning, memory, and mind‎

Try to remember: psychiatry's clash over meaning, memory, and mind Paul R. McHugh - 2008 - No preview available
 

Great and desperate cures: the rise and decline of psychosurgery and other ...‎

Great and desperate cures: the rise and decline of psychosurgery and other ... Elliot S. Valenstein - 1986 - Medical - Snippet view
 

A history of psychiatry: from the era of the asylum to the age of Prozac‎

A history of psychiatry: from the era of the asylum to the age of Prozac Edward Shorter - 1997 - Medical - Limited preview
"PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and practice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine achievement . . . . What strikes the reader [most] are Shorter's storytelling skills, his ability to conjure up the ...
 

Women of the asylum: voices from behind the walls, 1840-1945‎

Women of the asylum: voices from behind the walls, 1840-1945 Jeffrey L. Geller, Maxine Harris - 1994 - Medical - Snippet view
 

Medicating children: ADHD and pediatric mental health‎

Medicating children: ADHD and pediatric mental health Rick Mayes, Catherine Bagwell, Jennifer L. Erkulwater - 2009 - Psychology - Limited preview
Why and how did ADHD become the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder among children and adolescents, as well as one of the most controversial? Stimulant medication had been used to treat excessively hyperactive children since the 1950s. And ...
 

Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology‎

Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology Scott O. Lilienfeld, Carol Tavris - 2004 - Medical - Limited preview
This is the first major text designed to help professionals and students evaluate the merits of popular yet controversial practices in clinical psychology, differentiating those that can stand up to the rigors of science from those that cannot ...
 

 Solomon's Noonday Demon

 

Last Time I Wore a Dress‎

Last Time I Wore a Dress Daphne Scholinski, Jane Meredith Adams - 2003 - No preview available
 

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness‎

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett - 1999 - No preview available
 

A beautiful mind: the life of mathematical genius and Nobel ..., Issue 2001‎

A beautiful mind: the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash Sylvia Nasar - 2001 - Psychology - Limited preview
Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.
 

Undercurrents: a therapist's reckoning with her own depression‎

Undercurrents: a therapist's reckoning with her own depression Martha Manning - 1994 - No preview available
 

Girl, interrupted‎

Girl, interrupted Susanna Kaysen - 1994 - Performing Arts - Snippet view
 

Nothing was the same: a memoir‎

Nothing was the same: a memoir Kay Redfield Jamison - 2009 - Family & Relationships - Limited preview
In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison ("An Unquiet Mind") looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled severe dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia.
 

Night falls fast: understanding suicide‎

Night falls fast: understanding suicide Kay R. Jamison - 2001 - No preview available
 

An unquiet mind‎

An unquiet mind Kay R. Jamison - 1997 - Psychology - Snippet view
 

Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia‎

Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia Marya Hornbacher - 1998 - Psychology - Limited preview
The author shares her lifelong battle with bulimia and anorexia, chronicling her secret life of bingeing and purging and her obsession with food and body image, substance abuse, and sex
 

Without conscience: the disturbing world of the psychopaths among us‎

Without conscience: the disturbing world of the psychopaths among us Robert D. Hare - 1999 - Psychology - Limited preview
Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers that increasingly populate our movies, television programs, and newspaper headlines. With their flagrant criminal violation of society's rules ...
 

Snakes in suits: when psychopaths go to work‎

Snakes in suits: when psychopaths go to work Paul Babiak, Robert D. Hare - 2006 - Psychology - No preview available
 

Adolescents on the autism spectrum: a parent's guide to the cognitive ...‎

Adolescents on the autism spectrum: a parent's guide to the cognitive ... Chantal Sicile-Kira, Temple Grandin - 2006 - Family & Relationships - Limited preview
Addressing the unique needs of parenting a a child or teenager with an autistic disorder, a comprehensive parent's handbook brings together clear examples, practical advice, and supportive insights to cover the cognitive, emotional, social, and ...
 

Asperger's and Girls‎

Asperger's and Girls Tony Attwood, Temple Grandin, Teresa Bolick - 2006 - Psychology - Limited preview
Women with autism spectrum disorders discuss their experiences, good and bad. Leading professionals in the autism field punctuate this masterpiece with fascinating articles, offering helpful advice based on many years of experience.
 

Thinking in pictures: and other reports from my life with autism‎

Thinking in pictures: and other reports from my life with autism Temple Grandin - 2006 - Psychology - No preview available
 

Animals in translation: using the mysteries of autism to decode animal behavior‎

Animals in translation: using the mysteries of autism to decode animal behavior Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson - 2005 - Psychology - Limited preview
The animal scientist author of Thinking in Pictures draws on her experience as an autistic to identify commonalities between animals and autistics, offering insight into how animals process sensory information and how they often possess ...
 

Schizophrenia revealed: from neurons to social interactions‎

Schizophrenia revealed: from neurons to social interactions Michael Foster Green - 2001 - Psychology - Limited preview
"Of One Mind" recasts the theory and practice of hypnosis and therapy within a relational understanding of language, self, and mind. With the casual grace of an entrancing storyteller and the dry humor of an experienced therapist and teacher ...
 

Willow weep for me: a black woman's journey through depression : a memoir‎

Willow weep for me: a black woman's journey through depression : a memoir Meri Nana-Ama Danquah - 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - Snippet view
 

Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression‎

Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression Nell Casey - 2001 - Psychology - No preview available
 

 

book cover for Manufacturing DepressionWolpert, L. (2010). Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease. Simon & Schuster.

"Gary Greenberg is a psychotherapist who joined a clinical trial for an antidepressant at a time when he was mildly depressed. He was diagnosed as severely depressed, got better, and found that his pill was a placebo. His book contains a major attack on antidepressants, and he blames the drug companies for the false advertising of their positive effects. He is also very critical of the concept of depression itself.

He is right that quite a lot of random clinical trials have failed to demonstrate the effectiveness of antidepressants – as opposed to placebos – in curing depression. However, he ignores the evidence that, for severe depression, they really can help. He accuses the drug industry of downplaying the numerous side-effects, such as the 774 papers showing their effect on sexual performance. In addition, he argues that the industry has successfully campaigned to persuade doctors and the public that they suffer in enormous numbers from a disease called depression when in fact they might not."

 Read the full review at guardian.co.uk.


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