Kategoria BISAC: Self-Help >> Mood Disorders - General

If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chances are that your persistent obsessive thoughts and time-consuming compulsions keep you from enjoying life to the fullest. But when you are in the habit of avoiding the things you fear, the idea of facing them head-on can feel frightening and overwhelming. This book can help.

The OCD Workbook has helped thousands of people with OCD break the bonds of troubling OCD symptoms and regain the hope of a productive life. Endorsed and used in hospitals and clinics the world over, this valuable resource is now fully revised...

The book contains a five-point plan for overcoming anxiety, depression, and addiction. Learn the symptoms, treatment, and relapse prevention strategies that will change your life. Learn new coping skills such as cognitive therapy, stress management, and mindfulness along with step-by-step instructions on how to use them. The book includes numerous exercises and a one-month program to help you get started. Dr. Melemis is a leading authority in addiction and mood disorders who has helped thousands of people improve their lives. For more information refer to IWantToChangeMyLife.org.

Marrying Eastern techniques of meditation with traditional Western solutions of diet and exercise, celebrated psychiatrist Dr. Henry Emmons offers a proven plan to combat anxiety--without medication--that has helped tens of thousands gain inner peace and start enjoying life.

The debilitating effects of anxiety can affect your sense of well-being, health, longevity, productivity, and relationships. In The Chemistry of Calm, Dr. Henry Emmons presents his Resilience Training Program--a groundbreaking regimen designed to relieve anxiety and restore physical and mental strength. This...

Crime should be of interest to all of us. Sooner or later, most families will have a member who becomes involved with the justice system either as a criminal or a victim. Many victims are scarred for life by some criminal behavior. When a criminal changes his/her ways we all benefit. When a criminal's family becomes healthy everyone benefits. The criminal's children are much less likely to become criminals, as happens in many cases now. It is essential to help criminals and their families if we are going to reduce crime Dr. Elsey has considerable experience working with over 300 criminals and...

Shelley Hussey shamelessly puts the "fun" back in dysfunctional in her book, I'm Not OK, You're Not OK, But That's OK With God: Finding the Humor and Healing in Life. I'm Not OK is a hybrid: equal parts self-help, memoir, humor, how-to, inspiration, and motivation. Readers will find it to be a refreshing take on dealing with the shame and blame that often accompanies mental illness-educating and entertaining, frequently in the same paragraph. The book is also a testament to the degree that love and laughter lighten the load of life. Both the author and her husband endured-and overcame-chronic...

A thoroughly updated version of a key practitioner text, this new edition includes a treatment manual of cognitive-behavioural therapy for Bipolar Disorder which incorporates the very latest understanding of the psycho-social aspects of bipolar illness.

• Updated to reflect treatment packages developed by the authors over the last decade, and the successful completion of a large randomized controlled study which shows the efficacy of CBT for relapse prevention in Bipolar Disorder
• Demonstrates the positive results of a combined approach of cognitive behavioural therapy and...

A thoroughly updated version of a key practitioner text, this new edition includes a treatment manual of cognitive-behavioural therapy for Bipolar Disorder which incorporates the very latest understanding of the psycho-social aspects of bipolar illness.

• Updated to reflect treatment packages developed by the authors over the last decade, and the successful completion of a large randomized controlled study which shows the efficacy of CBT for relapse prevention in Bipolar Disorder
• Demonstrates the positive results of a combined approach of cognitive behavioural therapy and...

Have you ever sought professional help for an emotional problem and were shocked to find yourself diagnosed as mentally ill? Are you being pressured to take psychiatric medications by a doctor who barely listens to you?
If you are one of the millions of consumers of professional mental healthcare in America today, the answer to both questions is most likely yes-and it's just as likely the treatment isn't working. In "Psychiatryland," Dr. Phillip Sinaikin teaches you why mental healthcare in America has come to be totally dominated by the so-called medical model of mental illness and how...

Have you ever sought professional help for an emotional problem and were shocked to find yourself diagnosed as mentally ill? Are you being pressured to take psychiatric medications by a doctor who barely listens to you?
If you are one of the millions of consumers of professional mental healthcare in America today, the answer to both questions is most likely yes-and it's just as likely the treatment isn't working. In "Psychiatryland," Dr. Phillip Sinaikin teaches you why mental healthcare in America has come to be totally dominated by the so-called medical model of mental illness and how...

2013 Honorable Mention @ Paris Book festival. 2011 AWARD WINNING FINALIST in the Self-help General Category @ The INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS. 2011 New York Book Festival Honorable Mention, Wild Card Category. Anxiety will turn the reader into a private investigator, asking them to find a fact or evidence that something is really wrong. It will teach the reader to discern between fact and fiction. Anger has the best disguise and is my favorite mentor. Anger asks us to feel it and not associate it with negativity. Anger tells us"recycle me, I am power, your power" The reader will have the...

Many people, unless they have experienced mental illness in their family or own home, do not have an idea about how someone with such an illness behaves or if there is any hope for recovery. The media is left to educate through television or movies, and the usual depiction of someone with such an illness is someone who is psychotic and violent. Brenda McAninch in her book, As the Ice Thaws, presents hope for those with bipolar illness and for those who live with them. Brenda McAninch started her career teaching elementary grades. She worked with all levels of students, but her proudest...

An intimate account of one individual's thoughts and experiences on being bipolar. This is an honest appraisal of one man's journey through the labyrinthine ways of his own psyche. Through a series of journal-like entries the author describes such concerns as visions, contemporary mental health issues, and a sense of survival that is needed to find Beauty in these current times.

An intimate journey into the bipolar mind of one woman struggling to cope with the symptoms of madness and the elation of mania. It chronicles the resulting hospitalization that led to a diagnosis that changed a young woman's life and resulted in a new way at looking at the division between sanity and the world of the insane.

"Judson Rothschild has written the ideal book for those struggling with the often-crippling impact of anxiety and panic attacks. He combines his own experience with well-researched material. Judson writes with clarity, humor and purpose, seeking to share his own hard-earned wisdom with others in search of real-life answers. Those looking for hope and help will not be disappointed." -RICK SHUMAN, PhD, vice chair, Our House Past clinical director, Century City Hospital Frequent guest on CNN, CBS, FOX, OPRAH and EXTRA "This is the perfect book to give to people suffering from panic and/or...

Bipolar Disorder is becoming a worldwide epidemic. Ken Jensen is a Marine Gulf War vet who overcame it. Inside, you will find his life story focusing on the parts that helped lead him into the nightmare that is bipolar disorder. He was moderately to severely ill for eight years and even landed in a two-week coma from it. Frustrated with how doctors seemed unable to help him, and facing mounting health crises, he struck out on his own and developed an all-natural system to heal himself. He got his life and his sanity back. This book details that journey and includes the system he still follows...

"If a colleague were to ask me, "What would you recommend I read if I want to become a real expert on bipolarity?" I would respond Bipolar Psychopharmacotherapy: Caring for the Patient."
Journal of Bipolar Disorders

And the second edition is even better Bipolar Psychopharmacotherapy covers both pharmacotherapy and the supportive role of psychotherapy, psychoeducation and social approaches to provide a broad integrative philosophy of care for bipolar patients. Extensive coverage is given to special management issues such as the pharmacological care...

One hundred years ago in 1899 Emil Kraepelin, Professor of Psychiatry in Heidelberg and later in Munich created, in two very important pieces of work, the concept of "manisch-depressives Irresein" ("manic-depressive insanity"). The first was entitled Die klinische Stellung der Melancholie(The Clinical Position of Melancholia), and the second publication was the sixth edition of his textbook. In the same year Kraepelin's pupil and colleague, Wilhelm Weygandt, published his book Uber die Mischzustande des Manisch- Depressiven Irreseins (On the Mixed States of Manic-Depressive Insanity). A...

This manual on Mindfulness-Based Anxiety Reduction (MBAR) is written for people who are interested in both the cessation of psychological suffering and enlightenment. MBAR proposes that our sense of personal identity and history are conceptual constructs that orient us to our human lives. Though such conceptions serve us, they also deliver psychological suffering. Psychological suffering is of the nature of ideas and memories. It follows that the liberation from such suffering must provide for the loosening and restructuring of troubling conceptions. Non-conceptual awareness, which is closely...

Bipolar Disorder

From its first depictions in ancient medical literature to contemporary depictions in brain imaging, mania has been largely associated with its Greek roots, "to rage." Prior to the nineteenth century, "mania" was used interchangeably with "madness." Although its meanings shifted over time, the word remained layered with the type of madness first-century writers described: rage, fury, frenzy. Even now, the mental illness we know as bipolar disorder describes conditions of extreme irritability, inflated grandiosity, and excessive impulsivity.

Spanning several centuries, Manic Minds...