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Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Culturesvolume 11
ISBN: 9780520291096 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia--long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness--are low in some countries and higher in others? And why do migrants to Western countries find that they are at higher risk for this disease after they arrive? T. M. Luhrmann and Jocelyn Marrow argue that the root causes of schizophrenia are not only biological, but also sociocultural. This book gives an intimate, personal account of those living with serious psychotic...
Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophreni...
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135,19 zł |
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Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Culturesvolume 11
ISBN: 9780520291089 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia--long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness--are low in some countries and higher in others? And why do migrants to Western countries find that they are at higher risk for this disease after they arrive? T. M. Luhrmann and Jocelyn Marrow argue that the root causes of schizophrenia are not only biological, but also sociocultural. This book gives an intimate, personal account of those living with serious psychotic...
Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophreni...
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319,04 zł |
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Living Colorful Beauty
ISBN: 9781517786755 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living Colorful Beauty is a twisted, intensely character-driven ride. In Living Colorful Beauty, author Jonathan Harnisch tells the story of Ben, a man diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome, schizoaffective disorder, and several other issues. Ever since his youth, Ben has been both plagued by mental illness and obsessed with venality. As he navigates through an unstable, directionless life and leaves a string of shattered romances in his wake, he generates a fictional character, Georgie Gust, to deal with his many paraphilias and neuroses. But with the introduction of a new psychotherapist, Ben...
Living Colorful Beauty is a twisted, intensely character-driven ride. In Living Colorful Beauty, author Jonathan Harnisch tells the story of Ben, a ma...
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47,38 zł |
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Prevention in Mental Health Care: Time for a New Approach
ISBN: 9781138918153 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prevention in Mental Health Care: Time for a new approach focuses on the limitations in current psychiatric practice and research. Many professionals working in mental health care, as well as patients with psychiatric symptoms, are dissatisfied with what is currently offered by the discipline, with respect to the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. This book discusses possibilities and opportunities for change, and is the first to combine recent scientific research results with insights from philosophy and art. Illustrating these points with elaborate case studies,... Prevention in Mental Health Care: Time for a new approach focuses on the limitations in current psychiatric practice and research. Many professiona... |
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744,88 zł |
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The Brutal Truth
ISBN: 9781522920724 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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25,82 zł |
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The Oxygen Tank
ISBN: 9781523870844 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Benjamin J. Schreiber has left rehab, but isn't out of the woods. His life, plagued by schizophrenic personalities and Tourette's, exists in series of maddening hallucinogenic episodes that combine his deepest insecurities with dark fantasies. In every one of these manic flashes, the same characters appear: Georgie, the alter-ego living in Ben's body, and Claudia, the object of his twisted desires and destructive obsession. In his sickness, Ben writes to his psychiatrist, Dr. C., about these -schizophrenic blue-movie skits and sleazy hardcore porn-flicks-, creating with his pen a disturbing...
Benjamin J. Schreiber has left rehab, but isn't out of the woods. His life, plagued by schizophrenic personalities and Tourette's, exists in series of...
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38,76 zł |
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Glad You're Not Me
ISBN: 9781523837328 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jonathan Harnisch has proclaimed himself the King of Mental Illness. A schizophrenic with Tourette's, he often feels like a twisted character treading in an otherwise ordinary world. It comes as both a shock and a familiar feeling, then, when he discovers that a friend and fellow author has written him into her book. Seeking to displace the perhaps one-dimensional image created of him, Harnisch sets out to write his own account of the characters that have ruled his life-bare, raw, and endlessly revealing. Glad You're Not Me is a rarely seen, shocking account of living with schizophrenia....
Jonathan Harnisch has proclaimed himself the King of Mental Illness. A schizophrenic with Tourette's, he often feels like a twisted character treading...
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25,82 zł |
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Freak
ISBN: 9781523781324 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ben Schreiber knew Wakefield Academy would be a disaster before he even arrived. It would be the same as his last school--the taunting, the judgment, the panic at being an all-too-obvious schizophrenic in a crowd of teenage brats hungry for a target. His fears are confirmed the moment he steps out of his parent's rusty car to the mocking sneers of his posh classmates. So what does Ben do? He retreats into himself, allowing the second being within his body to rise to consciousness--Georgie Gust, an angry, resentful, Tourette's-ridden personality, suspicious of everyone and trusting of none....
Ben Schreiber knew Wakefield Academy would be a disaster before he even arrived. It would be the same as his last school--the taunting, the judgment, ...
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25,82 zł |
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Living with Serious Mental Illness and Physical Disabilities
ISBN: 9781523445479 / Angielski / Miękka / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea behind this short book is to include some of Jonathan Harnisch's old Facebook and blog posts about living with severe mental illness, cognitive decline and terminal physical disabilities. The writing captures the essence of what he experiences living with serious mental illness and physical disabilities.
The idea behind this short book is to include some of Jonathan Harnisch's old Facebook and blog posts about living with severe mental illness, cogniti...
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25,82 zł |
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Porcelain Utopia
ISBN: 9781523941209 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BEN SCHREIBER suffers from a range of physical and psychiatric disorders, ranging from Tourette's syndrome to narcissism, borderline personality, and schizoaffective disorder. He is hospitalized after a drug-crazed attempt at a bank robbery and is now under the care of Dr C, a female psychiatrist. Ben has little faith that psychiatric medicine will help him rid his mind of the delusions and hallucinations that his disorder presents, as it has done little for him thus far. He also knows that Dr C will not be treating him alone: He must introduce her to the cast of characters that share his...
BEN SCHREIBER suffers from a range of physical and psychiatric disorders, ranging from Tourette's syndrome to narcissism, borderline personality, and ...
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51,68 zł |
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Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide and Manual
ISBN: 9781138182868 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis describes a new psychological intervention, which for the first time applies emerging research from the field of positive psychology specifically to psychosis. The book contains guidance on adapting the approach for use in individual treatments, and on providing part of the intervention, either as individual sessions or by integrating Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis sessions into other treatments. Divided into two sections Theory and the Intervention Manual this book offers methodologically rigorous research, case studies and... Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis describes a new psychological intervention, which for the first time applies emerging research from t... |
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873,32 zł |
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Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide and Manual
ISBN: 9781138182875 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis describes a new psychological intervention, which for the first time applies emerging research from the field of positive psychology specifically to psychosis. The book contains guidance on adapting the approach for use in individual treatments, and on providing part of the intervention, either as individual sessions or by integrating Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis sessions into other treatments. Divided into two sections Theory and the Intervention Manual this book offers methodologically rigorous research, case studies and... Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis describes a new psychological intervention, which for the first time applies emerging research from t... |
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220,85 zł |
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Entre la Esquizofrenia y Mi Voluntad: Una Historia de Locura y Esperanza
ISBN: 9781470030179 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Muchas biografias de personas que padecen enfermedades mentales parecen centrarse exclusivamente en los sentimientos de desesperanza, manteniendo bajas las expectativas en cuanto al futuro de la persona aquejada. En su autobiografia, en cambio, William Jiang le da un giro a esta letania de dolor. Se presenta a si mismo como el resultado de los milagros que puede producir la medicina moderna. Habiendo estado al borde de la locura, el llego a convertirse en un respetado bibliotecario medico experto en informatica y tecnologia que trabaja en una institucion de investigacion mundialmente...
Muchas biografias de personas que padecen enfermedades mentales parecen centrarse exclusivamente en los sentimientos de desesperanza, manteniendo baja...
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53,11 zł |
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Mom & Me: My Journey with Mom's Schizophrenia
ISBN: 9781633932791 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 illness. Living alone as a teen with her mom's untreated schizophrenia, Sandy experienced disturbing behaviors and learned quickly how powerless she... |
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53,16 zł |
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Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity: A study of schizophrenia and culture in Turkey
ISBN: 9781138235564 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the relationship between subjective experience and the cultural, political and historical paradigms in which the individual is embedded. Providing a deep analysis of three compelling case studies of schizophrenia in Turkey, the book considers the ways in which private experience is shaped by collective structures, offering insights into issues surrounding religion, national and ethnic identity and tensions, modernity and tradition, madness, gender and individuality. Chapters draw from cultural psychiatry, medical anthropology, and political theory to... This book explores the relationship between subjective experience and the cultural, political and historical paradigms in which the individual is e... |
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267,08 zł |
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Un Homme New Yorkais avec la Schizophrenie: Une Autobiographie
ISBN: 9781514359662 / Francuski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Un Homme New Yorkais avec la Schizophrenie: Une Autobiographie, est une autobiographie inspiree d'une vie avec la redoutable maladie, Schizophrenie. Il y est notamment question de force d'esprit, de corps et d'amour. De sa premiere crise psychotique severe a l'adolescence, qui marque une profonde rupture avec la realite, a sa reconquete personnelle et professionnelle avec une carriere reconnue de conservateur en chef de la Bibliotheque Medicale dans le premier institut de recherche medicale au monde, NYSPI, affilie a l'Universite de Columbia a New-York. Ce qui rend cette histoire merveilleuse...
Un Homme New Yorkais avec la Schizophrenie: Une Autobiographie, est une autobiographie inspiree d'une vie avec la redoutable maladie, Schizophrenie. I...
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51,73 zł |
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Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
ISBN: 9780199331505 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psychotic disorders are common and important psychiatric conditions, and patients suffering from psychosis can be challenging to assess and manage. In this new monograph, experts in schizophrenia and related psychoses review the current state of science in this area, and provide a practical and readable overview of the how to diagnose and treat individuals presenting with these disorders. This pocket-sized text features call-out boxes, case descriptions, practical tips, and general guidelines that should be ideal for medical students, residents, young mental health professionals, and trainees...
Psychotic disorders are common and important psychiatric conditions, and patients suffering from psychosis can be challenging to assess and manage. In...
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342,11 zł |
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Outpatient Treatment of Psychosis: Psychodynamic Approaches to Evidence-Based Practice
ISBN: 9781782203346 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a practitioner's guide to evidence-based practice in working with psychotic patients in an outpatient setting by clinicians and scholars who are internationally recognized for their work in treating severe psychopathology.
Topics cover conceptual, technical, and practical considerations in the parameters of working with adult and adolescent populations that exhibit thought disorder, delusions, hallucinations, borderline organizations, trauma, and schizoid phenomena. Different theoretical models are presented from psychoanalytic traditions that introduce the student... This book offers a practitioner's guide to evidence-based practice in working with psychotic patients in an outpatient setting by clinicians and schol...
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200,30 zł |
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No One Cares about Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America
ISBN: 9780316341134 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers' critically acclaimed narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers' critically acclaimed narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply...
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82,07 zł |
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Can't You Hear Them?: The Science and Significance of Hearing Voices
ISBN: 9781785922565 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The experience of 'hearing voices', once associated with lofty prophetic communications, has fallen low. Today, the experience is typically portrayed as an unambiguous harbinger of madness caused by a broken brain, an unbalanced mind, biology gone wild. Yet an alternative account, forged predominantly by people who hear voices themselves, argues that hearing voices is an understandable response to traumatic life-events. There is an urgent need to overcome the tensions between these two ways of understanding 'voice hearing'. Simon McCarthy-Jones considers neuroscience, genetics, religion,...
The experience of 'hearing voices', once associated with lofty prophetic communications, has fallen low. Today, the experience is typically portrayed ...
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91,88 zł |