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Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness: Myths Behind the Presumption of Guilt
ISBN: 9781442224049 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When horrific acts of violence take place, events such as massacres in Boston, Newtown, CT, and Aurora, CO, people want answers. Who would commit such a thoughtless act of violence? What in their backgrounds could make them so inhumane, cruel, and evil? Often, people assume immediately that the perpetrator must have a mental disorder, and in some cases that does prove to be the case. But the assumption that most people with mental disorders are violent, prone to act out, and a threat to others and themselves, is clearly erroneous. Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness...
When horrific acts of violence take place, events such as massacres in Boston, Newtown, CT, and Aurora, CO, people want answers. Who would commit such...
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She's So Bipolar: A Memoir with Photographs
ISBN: 9780615813769 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Veronica Cronin is an author, photographer, and happens to be bipolar. Through personal experience and photographs, taken in different moods over the period of a year, she has produced a book that is geared towards anyone wanting to know what it feels like to have the illness, and a help to those who are touched by it every day.
Veronica Cronin is an author, photographer, and happens to be bipolar. Through personal experience and photographs, taken in different moods over the ...
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Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), ADHD and the Bipolar Child Under DSM-5: A Concise Guide for Parents and Professionals
ISBN: 9780981995526 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In less than 10 years the rate that children are diagnosed with bipolar disorder increased a shocking 4000% This was due in part to the increased use of "alternative," unsanctioned approaches to making the diagnosis in children. As more research has been conducted and we've gained more experience with "the bipolar child," it turns out that most don't grow up to have bipolar disorder and they're distinctly different from the much smaller number of children who really do have bipolar disorder. These kids not only have not had an "early onset" of bipolar disorder, they haven't had an onset of...
In less than 10 years the rate that children are diagnosed with bipolar disorder increased a shocking 4000% This was due in part to the increased use...
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Schizophrenia: The Voices, They Won't Let Me Go. . . or Will They?
ISBN: 9781481726207 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,09 |
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New Developments in Personality Disorders Research
ISBN: 9781624171185 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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519,74 |
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Searching For Light: Searching For Light
ISBN: 9781483994390 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about my struggles with Schizophrenia and Depression. Since the year 1985, being hospitalized because of a severe nervous breakdown, I found out I had Paranoia Schizophrenia. Today God has given my life meaning, hope, joy and peace. He has built my character through the sufferings and brokenness I've experienced in my life. My story is uplifting, exciting, scary and most of all it is encouraging
This book is about my struggles with Schizophrenia and Depression. Since the year 1985, being hospitalized because of a severe nervous breakdown, I fo...
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An Uncommon Friendship
ISBN: 9780615638478 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Stewart Young becomes mentally ill with a variety of disorders, his mind betraying and lying to him, he fights his demons in an attempt to save his own life. His wife, Monique, has her own demons, but she is determined to keep him safe. When his infatuation with other women brings the marriage to a screeching halt, she continues to take care of him, and their friendship remains strong, despite the isolation, rapid mood swings, hallucinations, and the occasional psychotic episode. Through a combination of diary entries, emails, and narrative, we see the progression of his illness, and the...
When Stewart Young becomes mentally ill with a variety of disorders, his mind betraying and lying to him, he fights his demons in an attempt to save h...
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Flamingos Can't Tap Dance
ISBN: 9781453604779 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is said that "we are as sick as our secrets." The Skilss family has secrets that go back to World War II. They continue after that too. Some of these secrets are even unknown to them. Mollie Skilss starts to unravel and thinks she is unraveling some of these secrets. Her dilemma is that her credibility is suspect because she has Bipolar Disorder. Even though she has another dimension of being a psychotherapist she thinks she can't be believed just like flamingos can't tap dance. Oprah, Conrad Hilton, The Kennedys and Jack Nicklaus are all part of this story that is creative nonfiction . It...
It is said that "we are as sick as our secrets." The Skilss family has secrets that go back to World War II. They continue after that too. Some of the...
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Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology: A Handbook for Clinicians
ISBN: 9780415529976 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology: A Handbook for Clinicians is a practical guide for the growing number of mental-health practitioners searching for information on treatments that combine psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychosocial rehabilitation. Research shows that combined approaches are among the most effective ways to treat an increasing number of psychiatric disorders. However, though these combined treatments are becoming the everyday practice of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental-health professionals, identifying the right treatment plan can be... Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology: A Handbook for Clinicians is a practical guide for the growing number of mental-health practition... |
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Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology: A Handbook for Clinicians
ISBN: 9780415838573 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology: A Handbook for Clinicians is a practical guide for the growing number of mental-health practitioners searching for information on treatments that combine psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychosocial rehabilitation. Research shows that combined approaches are among the most effective ways to treat an increasing number of psychiatric disorders. However, though these combined treatments are becoming the everyday practice of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental-health professionals, identifying the right treatment plan can be...
Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology: A Handbook for Clinicians is a practical guide for the growing number of mental-health practitioners...
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Living with Bipolar Disorder: My Story about Rising to the Top of My Game to Hitting the Bottom of Despair
ISBN: 9781489544650 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My Story about Rising to the Top of My Game and Hitting the Bottom of Despair This book describes my own personal triumphs and struggles with Bipolar Disorder, coupled with ADHD. I have found some good books and articles about the disorder; but unfortunately, there is still a great deal left unknown about it, even among the most educated in the field. So it is quite an undertaking to find anything to help further your understanding of it or how to cope with it. Along those same lines, very few people are willing to tell their story, mainly because of the stigmas attached to it. The primary...
My Story about Rising to the Top of My Game and Hitting the Bottom of Despair This book describes my own personal triumphs and struggles with Bipolar ...
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Britain On The Couch : How keeping up with the Joneses has depressed us since 1950
ISBN: 9780091929848 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between the 1950s and the end of the 1970s depression mushroomed, especially among the poor and young women. This book shows that what depressed them and the rest of us was a rampant keeping up with the Joneses and a gender rancour between the sexes that may be the worst the world has ever seen.
Between the 1950s and the end of the 1970s depression mushroomed, especially among the poor and young women. This book shows that what depressed them ...
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Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature
ISBN: 9780140275407 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explains what madness is, to show that it can be understood in psychological terms, and that by studying it we can learn important insights about the normal mind. This book argues that traditional approaches to madness must be abandoned in favour of an approach which is more consistent with what we know about the human mind.
Explains what madness is, to show that it can be understood in psychological terms, and that by studying it we can learn important insights about the ...
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
ISBN: 9780141189376 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr Laing's first purpose is to make madness & the process of going mad comprehensible. In this he succeeds, but he does more: through a vision of sanity & madness as 'degrees of conjunction & disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.
Dr Laing's first purpose is to make madness & the process of going mad comprehensible. In this he succeeds, but he does more: through a vision of sani...
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Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality
ISBN: 9780195148732 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narcissists have been much maligned, but according to clinicians who study personality, there are many productive narcissists who succeed spectacularly well in life because they can articulate a vision and make others follow. Elsa Ronningstam, who has been studying and treating narcissists for 20 years, presents a balanced, comprehensive, and up-to-date review of our understanding of narcissistic personality disorder, explaining the range from personality trait, which can be productive, to full-blown disorder, which can be highly destructive. Through fascinating case histories, Ronningstam...
Narcissists have been much maligned, but according to clinicians who study personality, there are many productive narcissists who succeed spectacularl...
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What You Must Think of Me: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Social Anxiety Disorder
ISBN: 9780195313031 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We've all felt occasional pangs of shyness and self-consciousness, but for the 15 million Americans with social anxiety disorder, the fear of being scrutinized and criticized can reach disabling proportions. Such was the case for Emily Ford, who shares her firsthand experiences in these pages. Emily's true story of fear, struggle, and ultimate triumph is sure to resonate with other socially anxious teenagers and young adults.
Emily's frank, often witty, sometimes poignant account of how she negotiated all the obstacles of social anxiety--and eventually overcame them with the help of... We've all felt occasional pangs of shyness and self-consciousness, but for the 15 million Americans with social anxiety disorder, the fear of being sc...
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Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change
ISBN: 9780195379587 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BPD is a potentially devastating mental disorder characterized by unstable moods, negative self-image, and dangerous impulsivity. Many people with BPD excel in academics and careers while revealing erratic, self-destructive, and sometimes violent behavior only to those with whom they are intimate. Others have trouble simply holding down a job or staying in school. It is believed that suicide claims about one in ten people with BPD. Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change is a compassionate, informative, and reassuring guide to understanding this...
BPD is a potentially devastating mental disorder characterized by unstable moods, negative self-image, and dangerous impulsivity. Many people with BPD...
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Pocket Guide to Crisis Intervention
ISBN: 9780195382907 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crisis workers make split-second decisions every day that affect the mental health and well-being of individuals, families, and entire communities. They support and guide people through health diagnoses, bankruptcies, sexual assaults, deaths of loved ones, suicide attempts, and natural or man-made disasters from the front lines. While professions vary from mental health professionals, emergency responders, educators, business managers or volunteers such as suicide hotline workers, all have a common and urgent need for a rapid reference that covers every type of traumatic event they may be...
Crisis workers make split-second decisions every day that affect the mental health and well-being of individuals, families, and entire communities. Th...
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Cognitive Behavioural Processes Across Psychological Disorders: A Transdiagnostic Approach to Research and Treatment
ISBN: 9780198528883 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has established itself as one of the most effective therapies for treating a wide range of behavioral problems. However, research and treatment in this field typically adopts a DSM driven 'disorder-focused' approach-researchers and clinicians target a specific disorder, try to understand its aetiology and maintenance, and try to develop more effective strategies to treat the disorder. This book proposes a bold and original approach to understanding these disorders, one that focuses on what they have in common. Instead of examining in isolation, for example,...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has established itself as one of the most effective therapies for treating a wide range of behavioral problems. How...
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Persecutory Delusions: Assessment, Theory and Treatment
ISBN: 9780199206315 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paranoia is the fear that others intend to cause you harm. It occurs most dramatically as delusions of persecution in conditions such as schizophrenia, but it is related to suspicious thoughts that occur in some 10-20% of the general population. Typical concerns might be that people are trying to harm you, saying bad things behind your back, deliberately irritating you, or conspiring against you. It is one of the most significant psychiatric problems, and increasingly, researchers and clinicians have begun to focus on understanding paranoid experience.
In this landmark publication, the... Paranoia is the fear that others intend to cause you harm. It occurs most dramatically as delusions of persecution in conditions such as schizophrenia...
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425,09 |