Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness, Paperback - Stephen Hinshaw

DescriptionWINNER: Best Autobiography/Memoir, 2018 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madness is ...

A radical reappraisal of mental illness Madness, melancholy, insanity, lunacy, craziness, loco: a dizzying litany of words are used to describe a c...

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A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigmaPublisher...

Reducere. For much of the twentieth century, psychiatry, psychology and social theory have held that mental illness, historically known as madness, cannot be...

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A pastor's wife's shattering yet ultimately hopeful story of her husband's death by suicide, her journey to understand mental illness, and the ligh...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Rachel A. PruchnoNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 26Cover type...

An urgent expos of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angel...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Rachel A. PruchnoNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 238 x 29Cover type...

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From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for th...

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A selection of reflective essays about mental health on the autism spectrum from a diverse range of people. Each contributor follows the topics of ...

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Reducere. Description"Dr Alex Tanous (1926-1990) was a renowned international lecturer on the topics of well-being, creativity and parapsychology. A self-pro...

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The remarkable, intertwined histories of neurology, psychiatry, neurosyphilis and hysteria, by the authors of the Sunday Times top ten bestseller R...

Written for the invisible walking wounded among us who hide their pain behind smiles-and for the educators and mentors who sometimes doubt the powe...

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Based on a purpose-built 45-million-word corpus, this book offers timely and original linguistic insights into how the UK press report on mental he...

The church's response to child and adolescent mental health disorders has too often been characterized by fear and misinformation rather than grace...

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At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide...

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Many of us busy ourselves with projects or work long hours to keep our mind off our pain. We might look at our circumstances and seek to change our...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Horatio ClareNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 197 x 26Cover type: Paperback / so...

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This book explores how the ancient path of shamanism can help us to understand the nature of mental illness, recasting psychological breakdown as a...

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Reducere. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments an...