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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.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An exposé of the psychiatric profession's bible from a leading psychotherapist, "The Book of Woe "reveals the deeply flawed process by which mental disorders are invented and uninvented -- and why increasing numbers of therapy patients are being declared mentally ill.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere more than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, more than any other class of medication; that year, the United States accounted for 66% of the global market. Here, psychiatrist Barber provides a context for this disturbing phenomenon. He explores...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xviii, 494 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A history of American psychiatry-from jails to hospitals to the lab to the analyst's couch. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind-the sorts of things that were once called "madness"-have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this account of America's quest to understand and...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
As a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of eternal damnation turned into a childhood terror that drove her to become an outrageously dedicated Born-again Christian regularly slinging Bible verses in cutthroat scripture memorization competitions and assaulting strangers at shopping malls with the good news that they were going to hell.
Author
Language
English
Description
Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even...
77) Border crossing
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Eleventh edition.
Physical Desc
lii, 565 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
This updated edition of the Mental Health Resource Directory includes comprehensive coverage of 22 major mental health disorder categories, from ADHD to Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders, with over 100 subcategories and specific disorders. Users will find a variety of disorder-specific resources, including associations, books, periodicals, research centers, and support groups. -- Adapted from publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a high-capacity assault rifle, and a sidearm. He threw a canister of tear gas into the crowd and began firing. Soon twelve were dead and fifty-eight were wounded; young children and pregnant women were among them. The man was found calmly waiting at his car. He was detained without resistance....
80) David & Lisa
Publisher
Scorpion Releasing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two emotionally disturbed teenagers are drawn to each other in a mental institution. The painfully shy Lisa can communicate only through rhyme, and David cannot bear being touched. Strongly attracted to each other, however, they develop a deep bond that changes both of their lives.
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