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The Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice: Emerging Therapeutic
The definitive Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice brings together the work of leading international trauma experts to provide a detailed overview of trauma-informed practice and intervention: its history, the latest frameworks...
Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar
For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them....
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir
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'I was born in Washington, DC, June 13, 1931, of parents who immigrated from Russia shortly after the first world war. Home was the inner city of Washington - a...
How Do We Know Who We Are?
The ways biographers bring their subjects to life are not unlike the methods psychiatrists use to uncover the self of a patient or from the ways we construct our own...
Madness: A Brief History
This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean...
Social Psychology Mental Healt
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Penguin Freud Library, Vol.9: Case Histories 2: The 'Rat Man',
This volume contains the last four of Freud's six major case histories. The "Rat Man" first came to Freud in 1907, aged 29, suffering from obsessional fears and irresistible, violent...
The Sickening Mind: Brain, Behaviour, Immunity and Disease
'A masterpiece of popularization' Times Literary Supplement 'A fascinating account, based on objective scientific research, of the ways in which mental states affect the individual's liability to disease... Martin is...
Head First: A Psychiatrist's Stories of Mind and Body
'Wise, timely and eloquent... A joy to read.' - Guardian What does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective -...
Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer's
In 2006, Daniel Gibbs, author of A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease (soon to be a documentary produced by MTV/Paramount+), first noticed symptoms which...
Relationship Development Intervention with Young Children: Social and
Friendship requires hard work even for the most able, and the odds are heavily stacked against those with an autism spectrum disorder. Designed for younger children, aged between 2 and...
The Madness of Kings: Personal Trauma and the Fate of Nations
The book titled The Madness of Kings: Personal Trauma and the Fate of Nations by the author Vivian Green. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Impulse: The Science of Sex and Desire
Sex is everywhere in modern society, yet it remains taboo. We all have questions about sex that are too uncomfortable to ask - how do we get reliable answers? In...
Am I Depressed And What Can I Do About It?: A CBT self-help guide for
Depression is one of the most common mental health problems and is estimated to affect around 15% of people at some point during their life. For many people depression is...
My Brush with Depression: the Greg Wilson Story
'My Brush with Depression', by Aaron Cootes and Greg Wilson, takes you on a heartfelt journey alongside Greg from his school days; to the developing artist; to successful exhibitions in...
Marijuana and Madness: Psychiatry and Neurobiology
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the psychiatry and neuroscience of Cannabis sativa (marijuana), with particular emphasis on psychotic disorders. It outlines the very latest developments in...
John Bowlby and Attachment Theory
Attachment Theory is one of the most important theoretical developments in psychoanalysis to have emerged in the past half-century. It combines the rigorous scientific empiricism of ethology with the subjective...
The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him
'A beautifully researched, wildly unsettling study of a psychiatrist running amok' Sam Knight, author of The Premonitions Bureau 'A devastating account of the effects one unchecked psychiatrist had on vulnerable...
Written Off: Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential
Written-Off tells the story of how mental health stigma comes to have a profound impact on the lives of people diagnosed with mental illnesses. It reviews theory, research, and history...
Lost in the Mirror: An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder (MBP) afflicts six to ten million Americans and accounts for almost 25 percent of psychiatric hospitalisations. This book provides an expert look into this complex disorder, discussing...
The actor's brain: Exploring the cognitive neuroscience of free will
Is free will just an illusion? What is it within the brain that allows us to pursue our own actions and objectives? What is it about this organ that permits...
Fighting for Your Marriage: Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and
The authors of this work examine strategies of their PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) approach for helping couples prevent marital distress and divorce. They reveal, for example, research that...
The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal
'Shocking... a damning portrait of a man who, in the name of psychiatric progress, left a trail of broken lives in his wake' Telegraph , five stars 'Compelling' Sunday Times...
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise and redemption. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining 'lunatics' in cold cells and parading...
The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal
'Shocking... a damning portrait of a man who, in the name of psychiatric progress, left a trail of broken lives in his wake' Telegraph , five stars 'Compelling' Sunday Times...
It's Not All in Your Head: Now Women Can Discover the Real Causes of
The book titled It's Not All in Your Head: Now Women Can Discover the Real Causes of by the author Susan E. Swedo. This is a secondhand book. Please contact...
Brain Repair
Sixty years ago, the Nobel laureate Santiago Ramon y Cajal stated that "in the adult brain, nervous pathways are fixed and immutable; everything may die, nothing may be regenerated." Cajal's...
Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic
Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst,...
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist's Life
A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from 'the Adam Kay of mental healthcare' (THE TIMES) 'This is honestly my dream book... Fascinating' FERN BRADY 'Fearlessly...
Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy
A heartbreaking nonfiction classic from a renowed child psychologist In 1964, renowned psychotherapist Virginia M. Axline visited a New York school. There she encountered a little boy apart from teachers...
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending
A vital, transformative study of the damage caused by racism from the perspective of trauma and body-centred psychology The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in...
Love's Executioner
New edition of this bestselling work from a world-renowned psychotherapist Why was Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm? What made Thelma spend her whole life raking over a...
Impulse: The Science of Sex and Desire
Sex is everywhere in modern society, yet it remains taboo. We all have questions about sex that are too uncomfortable to ask - how do we get reliable answers? In...
The Unbalanced Mind
Does the crooked gene give rise to the crooked thought? Satirical aphorisms apart, the revolution in molecular genetics has indeed given rise to the heady optimism that biology will soon...
Paranoia: A Journey Into Extreme Mistrust and Anxiety
'A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK' JOHN HUMPHRYS 'FASCINATING... SHOCKING' SPECTATOR What is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome? Daniel Freeman, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, has spent...
Group: Six People in Search of a Life
Six bright, successful and remarkably self-destructive people enter into a course of dynamic group therapy in an effort to recognize and overcome their compulsions, addictions, weaknesses and family legacies. Granted...
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of
A world expert presents a sympathetic exploration of the causes of trauma and the new treatments making it possible for sufferers to reclaim their lives What causes people to continually...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of
A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness With his...
Broken Open
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Paranoia: A Journey Into Extreme Mistrust and Anxiety
'A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK' JOHN HUMPHRYS'FASCINATING... SHOCKING' SPECTATORWhat is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome? Daniel Freeman, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, has spent thirty years...
Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
Author: Sasha Hamdani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Destress, find your community, and practice self-love with these 100+ exercises to reinforce ADHD as a strength. When you have ADHD,...
Residential Treatment: A Cooperative, Competency-Based Approach to Therapy and Program Design
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