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A Good Life: The Perception OF Perfection an Autobiography gives insights into an aspect of the author's life, non-falsifying stories, and the ethics applied upheld truth, fairness, and ethical values and obtained knowledge that can be trusted are the facts without biases. The science of the author's voices in his head has a divine mind, and his body consciousness was in agony has a hell and the art in writing communicate the emotions. And, the verbs...
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What do you do when your adult child receives a frightening and severe mental illness diagnosis that is progressive and incurable-and barely manageable? How do you support him or her without losing your own self to the disease? Sisters in the Storm is your coping tool. Written with love and extreme vulnerability, author Linda Hoff shares her journey of being a mom of a mentally ill adult child (MIAC) and guides you to navigate this rough road as only...
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“The Insanity Machine” is an introspective look at life with paranoid schizophrenia. This book takes a clinical and observational look at the challenges presented by the condition. Kenna discusses the definition of paranoid schizophrenia, treatments, living with the disorder, and many other topics surrounding schizophrenia. The Insanity Machine is a nonfiction story about our journey with schizophrenia, which is also well researched and suitable...
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Psychosis can be associated with a variety of mental health problems, including schizophrenia, severe depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorders. While traditional treatments for psychosis have emphasized medication-based strategies, evidence now suggests that individuals affected by psychosis can greatly benefit from psychotherapy. Treating Psychosis is an evidence-based treatment guide for mental health professionals...
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Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. It coalesces twentieth-century ideas of film as thought into a practical theory of "film-thinking," arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas through a constant dramatic "intent" about the characters, spaces, and events of film.
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The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s-a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, cherished dog, and prized jalopy-and then the nervous breakdowns in all their slow-motion intimacy, the taste of mortality and opportunity for humor they provided, and the grim despair they afforded as well. That he emerged to write this funny and true book...
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In this inspiring and insightful memoir, Wendel Miser invites you to witness his sudden spiral into mental illness, and his courageous, faithful ascent into a fulfilling and joyous life.
He composed A Valiant Battle: A Journey with Schizophrenia with his brother, James S. Miser, M.D., whose collaboration exemplifies the strong family bonds that lifted Wendel from the depths of despair to many glorious moments that include performing with the National...
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UNDERSTANDING SCHIZOPHRENIA
Schizophrenia is an often misunderstood mental illness that afflicts more people than you may think.
Whether you personally suffer from schizophrenia, or a family member or friend does, this book will help to educate you on the illness, along with its causes and treatments that are available.
You will learn about the warning signs and symptoms of schizophrenia, and also the different types of the illness.
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Shatter the Walls of Secrets and Shame
At thirteen, Cecile Bibawy is, told that her best friend is part of a committee of evil psychiatrists, who watches the family around the clock. A few of her closest friends and family members are not to be trusted and pose a great danger.
If only she could know that these things are not so. Truth to a budding teen is whatever your mother says, and it is, her mother that says it, but only to her. No one else...
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A neuroscientist explores the biological bases of schizophrenia and tells the heartbreaking story of his own brother's battle with the disease.
When bright lives are, derailed by schizophrenia, bewildered and anxious families struggle to help, and to cope, even as scientists search for causes and treatments that prove elusive. Painful and often misunderstood, schizophrenia profoundly affects people who have the disease and their loved ones. Here...
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For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. A Road Back from Schizophrenia gives extraordinary insight into the logic (and life) of a schizophrenic. Lauveng illuminates her loss of identity, her sense of being controlled from the outside, and her relationship to the voices she heard and her sometimes terrifying hallucinations. Painful recollections of moments of...
52) Enigma
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In this unique memoir, a diagnosed schizophrenic takes readers inside his experience of reality blending with hallucination.
George Mattheson was born in Guyana and grew up in Trinidad and Tobago before settling in the United States. At age twenty-seven, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In Enigma, Mattheson shares his experience growing up talking to the Archangel Michael and providing intelligence to the CIA. For the son...
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Selected as one of The New York Times Book Review's Best Books of the Year and honored worldwide, Lisa, Bright and Dark was an immediate sensation when it was first published. Detailing how mental illness affects friends and family of the ill, Lisa, Bright and Dark has been in print for more than forty years. Its value has not diminished over time, and readers throughout the world contact the author regularly to discuss their reactions to it. A straight-through...
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Powerful and effective skills to help you manage psychosis, take charge of your emotions, and get back to living your life.
Based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this first-of-its-kind workbook offers real skills to help you balance your emotions and stay grounded in reality. You'll find self-assessments, worksheets, and guided activities to help you understand your symptoms and manage them in day-to-day life. You'll also gain self-awareness,...
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Conversations About Psychology, Volume 1, includes the following 5 carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
1. Believing Your Ears: Examining Auditory Illusions - A Conversation with Diana Deutsch,...
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In "Beyond the Broken Mind: A Journey to Triumph Over Schizophrenia," Travis Breeding invites readers into his courageous odyssey of resilience, offering a raw and unflinching account of his battle with schizophrenia. With profound vulnerability and unwavering honesty, Breeding shares the harrowing lows and triumphant highs of his personal journey, illuminating the often misunderstood landscape of mental illness.Through captivating narrative and poignant...
57) A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan
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Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on therapeutic work. As a centerpiece of this approach, Bethel House started its own businesses in order to create employment and socialization opportunities...
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ACT for Psychosis Recovery is the first book to provide a breakthrough, evidence-based, step-by-step approach for group work with clients suffering from psychosis. As evidenced in a study by Patricia A. Bach and Steven C. Hayes, patients with psychotic symptoms who received acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in addition to treatment as usual showed half the rate of re-hospitalization as those who did not. With this important guide, you'll learn...
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Des thérapies appropriées pour remédier aux psychopathologies de personnalité multiple.
La remédiation cognitive est devenue en quelques années un outil thérapeutique important dans le domaine des maladies psychiatriques, et plus particulièrement dans celui des troubles schizophréniques.
Parmi les programmes utilisés, RECOS est l'un des seuls à proposer un entraînement qui tient compte du profil cognitif individuel, permettant ainsi...
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Living alone as a teen with her mom's untreated schizophrenia, Sandy experienced disturbing behaviors and learned quickly how powerless she was to bring her healthy mother back to normal. But in time, Sandy learned to love her newly mentally ill mother, to delight in her and to have a meaningful and positive lifelong relationship with her. Mom and Me is a true success story of how both mother and daughter healed through facing the challenges of mental...
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