Mental Illness in Popular Culture, Hardcover

This book examines how Chinese-language newspapers across greater China report on severe mental illness, and why they do so in the ways they do, iv...

Publisher: Elsevier AustraliaAuthor(s): David (Director, Left Turn Solutions; Adjunct Lecturer, Paramedic Unit, College of Medicine and Public Heal...

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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...

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x ...

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place inte...

DescriptionMental illness among teens has risen to epidemic levels. When mental health issues come to the library, what is the librarian's role? Th...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Sathyaraj VenkatesanIllustration(s): 15 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumb...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 49 bw illusNumber of pages: 330Collection: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, ConceptsPublication...

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

From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary...

This is a cultural analysis and queer reading of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics providing an important exploration of the ways ...

In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is...

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From Parzival to The Da Vinci Code and Assassin's Creed, the Knights Templar have captivated artists and audiences for centuries. This study explor...

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Reducere. DescriptionGet the straight facts about mental illness from two Harvard trained psychiatrists. More than 40 million people in the US suffer from me...

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DescriptionMental Illness in Young Adult Literature: Exploring Real Struggles through Fictional Characters highlights American young adult literatu...

An exploration of our love affair with the Victorian vampire.Illustrations: 30 black and white illustrations

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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...

Now with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with updated research In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science...

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Motherhood and Mental Illness offers an in-depth, comprehensive relational psychotherapeutic framework to provide effective treatment for those exp...

The very idea of mental illness is contested. Given its differences from physical illnesses, is it right to count it, and particular mental illness...

Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introduc...

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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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Schizophrenia is widely considered the most severe and disabling of the mental illnesses. This title demonstrates the importance of listening to wh...

This book focuses on the centrality of illness-particularly psychosomatic illness-as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture. It shows how il...

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

The Christian response to mental illness is one of the great tragedies to ravage the church today. This tragedy began with the rise of the medical ...

People with serious mental illness get sick and die 10-20 years earlier than their same age cohort. The social determinants are many: stigma associ...

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Reducere. Reports reveal an increase in the number of individuals with serious mental illness in jails, prisons and forensic hospitals. Despite the wide-rang...

Can the social sciences explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or in individuals? This book presents a critical look at sociologica...

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Presents a comprehensive guide designed to enable CBT practitioners to effectively engage people from diverse cultural backgrounds by applying cult...