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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all...
Author
Series
Early American imprints. Second volume no. 45600
Pub. Date
1818
Edition
The fifth edition.
Physical Desc
4 volumes in 2 ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 388 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a challenging condition with a collection of possible symptoms: nightmares, relentless harmful emotions (anger, fear, guilt), hypervigilance, flashbacks, and an amplified startle response. PTSD patients are at greater risk of suicide. About 80-percent of the afflicted also suffer from other psychiatric problems (depression, alcoholism, drug abuse). Some causes of PTSD are rape, combat exposure, child abuse,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A narrative has taken hold that a mental health crisis has been building among young people. In this profoundly sensitive and constructive book, psychologist Lucy Foulkes argues that the crisis is one of ignorance...
58) I'm not crazy: the true story of Frances Deitrick's flight from a psychiatric snake pit to freedom
Author
Publisher
New Horizon Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
448 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), portraits (one color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go--these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also sought to make sense of it through religion or the supernatural, or by constructing psychological or social explanations in...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a trance-like state, Albert walks--from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia--all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images"--Dust jacket flap.
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