Misery

Author : Samuel Shem
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307815613

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Mount Misery by Samuel Shem Pdf

From the Laws of Mount Misery: There are no laws in psychiatry. Now, from the author of the riotous, moving, bestselling classic, The House of God, comes a lacerating and brilliant novel of doctors and patients in a psychiatric hospital. Mount Misery is a prestigious facility set in the rolling green hills of New England, its country club atmosphere maintained by generous corporate contributions. Dr. Roy Basch (hero of The House of God) is lucky enough to train there *only to discover doctors caught up in the circus of competing psychiatric theories, and patients who are often there for one main reason: they've got good insurance. From the Laws of Mount Misery: Your colleagues will hurt you more than your patients. On rounds at Mount Misery, it's not always easy for Basch to tell the patients from the doctors: Errol Cabot, the drug cowboy whose practice provides him with guinea pigs for his imaginative prescription cocktails . . . Blair Heiler, the world expert on borderlines (a diagnosis that applies to just about everybody) . . . A. K. Lowell, née Aliyah K. Lowenschteiner, whose Freudian analytic technique is so razor sharp it prohibits her from actually speaking to patients . . . And Schlomo Dove, the loony, outlandish shrink accused of having sex with a beautiful, well-to-do female patient. From the Laws of Mount Misery: Psychiatrists specialize in their defects. For Basch the practice of psychiatry soon becomes a nightmare in which psychiatrists compete with one another to find the best ways to reduce human beings to blubbering drug-addled pods, or incite them to an extreme where excessive rage is the only rational response, or tie them up in Freudian knots. And all the while, the doctors seem less interested in their patients' mental health than in a host of other things *managed care insurance money, drug company research grants and kickbacks, and their own professional advancement. From the Laws of Mount Misery: In psychiatry, first comes treatment, then comes diagnosis. What The House of God did for doctoring the body, Mount Misery does for doctoring the mind. A practicing psychiatrist, Samuel Shem brings vivid authenticity and extraordinary storytelling gifts to this long-awaited sequel, to create a novel that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, terrifying, and provocative. Filled with biting irony and a wonderful sense of the absurd, Mount Misery tells you everything you'll never learn in therapy. And it's a hell of a lot funnier.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501143106

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Misery by Stephen King Pdf

After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.

Author : Rayel Louis-Charles
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781538383391

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You and Me and Misery by Rayel Louis-Charles Pdf

Gin has recently accepted that she is a lesbian. She also may just remain a loner for all of eternity. Meanwhile, across from her in class, Johnny is battling life at school and at home. His day-to-day life consists of a heavy dose of bulimia, self-hate, and abuse from his father. The two loners come together, connected by shared misery, but can they admit how much they need each other before it's too late?

Author : James Sage
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781771388238

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Old Misery by James Sage Pdf

Sage has created a playful allegory about why misery exists in the world, and always will. Award-winning Ayto's pen-and-ink illustrations evoke the eccentric and slightly macabre feel of the book, perfectly complementing the original voice of the storytelling.

Author : Neon Yang
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250788986

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The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang Pdf

A Goodreads Best Science Fiction Choice Award Nominee A New York Public Library Top 10 Book of 2022 An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy, Neon Yang's debut novel The Genesis of Misery is full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses, and prophetic heirs. "This is Joan of Arc meets Gideon the Ninth with a touch of Pacific Rim thrown in as a treat. A mind-blowing rollercoaster ride of a space opera, propulsive and strange in the best way."—Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author It’s a story you think you know: a young person hears the voice of an angel saying they have been chosen as a warrior to lead their people to victory in a holy war. But Misery Nomaki (she/they) knows they are a fraud. Raised on a remote moon colony, they don’t believe in any kind of god. Their angel is a delusion, brought on by hereditary space exposure. Yet their survival banks on mastering the holy mech they are supposedly destined for, and convincing the Emperor of the Faithful that they are the real deal. The deeper they get into their charade, however, the more they start to doubt their convictions. What if this, all of it, is real? A reimagining of Joan of Arc’s story given a space opera, giant robot twist, the Nullvoid Chronicles is a story about the nature of truth, the power of belief, and the interplay of both in the stories we tell ourselves. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Andy Greenwald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416940494

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Miss Misery by Andy Greenwald Pdf

Once I started, I couldn't stop. It felt like falling down the stairs.... Meet David Gould: abandoned by his girlfriend, pushing the deadline for his first book, tormented by writer's block, and obsessed with the impossibly sexy, overwhelmingly alive diaries young people keep online. Outside it's a beautiful, Brooklyn summer. But inside his apartment David is sleeping in, screening calls, draining beer after beer, and dreaming of Miss Misery -- aka twenty-two-year-old provocateur Cath Kennedy -- a total stranger with impeccable music taste and an enviable nightlife. Now meet David Gould online. Here, in his fictional diary, he's a downtown DJ and an inveterate night owl, drinking and charming countless girls until the sun comes up. But when Miss Misery moves to New York City and begins canoodling with an insufferable hipster, David's diary mysteriously begins updating itself. The reason? David Gould has a doppelgänger, an obnoxious shadow set on claiming David's newly glamorous life as his own. Even worse for David, the phone calls from his editor are becoming increasingly desperate, and the voice mails from his girlfriend -- an ocean away -- are becoming more and more distant. And then there are all of the instant messages from seventeen-year-old Ashleigh Bortch, an emo kid in Salt Lake City with an inappropriate crush on David and a knack for showing up at precisely the wrong time. Forced out of his apartment, David Gould is facing the fight of his life. With humor, heart, and a vibrant, genre-jumping soundtrack, Andy Greenwald captures the essence of what it means to be young and struggling with identity in the new century. From cyberspace to nightclub bathrooms, from New York City to Utah, Miss Misery is a fast-paced, funny story about the timeless need to become the main character in your own life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9781292310008

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Misery by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410340597

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A Study Guide for Judith Oritz Cofer's "Aunty Misery" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Simon Moore
Publisher : Samuel French , Incorporated
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : UVA:X004471583

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Misery by Simon Moore Pdf

Author : John Linarelli,Margot E. Salomon,Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198753957

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The Misery of International Law by John Linarelli,Margot E. Salomon,Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah Pdf

Poverty, inequality, and dispossession accompany economic globalization. Bringing together three international law scholars, this book addresses how international law and its regimes of trade, investment, finance, as well as human rights, are implicated in the construction of misery, and how international law is producing, reproducing, and embedding injustice and narrowing the alternatives that might really serve humanity. Adopting a pluralist approach, the authors confront the unconscionable dimensions of the global economic order, the false premises upon which they are built, and the role of international law in constituting and sustaining them. Combining insights from radical critiques, political philosophy, history, and critical development studies, the book explores the pathologies at work in international economic law today. International law must abide by the requirements of justice if it is to make a call for compliance with it, but this work claims it drastically fails do so. In a legal order structured around neoliberal ideologies rather than principles of justice, every state can and does grab what it can in the economic sphere on the basis of power and interest, legally so and under colour of law. This book examines how international law on trade and foreign investment and the law and norms on global finance has been shaped to benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of others. It studies how a set of principles, in the form of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), that could have laid the groundwork for a more inclusive international law without even disrupting its market-orientation, were nonetheless undermined. As for international human rights law, it is under the terms of global capitalism that human rights operate. Before we can understand how human rights can create more just societies, we must first expose the ways in which they reflect capitalist society and how they assist in reproducing the underlying terms of immiseration that will continue to create the need for human rights protection. This book challenges conventional justifications of economic globalization and eschews false choices. It is not about whether one is "for" or "against" international trade, foreign investment, or global finance. The issue is to resolve how, if we are to engage in trade, investment, and finance, we do so in a manner that is accountable to persons whose lives are affected by international law. The deployment of human rights for their part must be considered against the ubiquity of neoliberal globalization under law, and not merely as a discrete, benevolent response to it.

Author : M. Rapley,J. Moncrieff,J. Dillon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230342507

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De-Medicalizing Misery by M. Rapley,J. Moncrieff,J. Dillon Pdf

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences.

Author : Carlos G. Bodre
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244769536

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From the prison of misery by Carlos G. Bodre Pdf

Author : Neon Yang
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250893192

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The Genesis of Misery Sneak Peek by Neon Yang Pdf

An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy, Neon Yang's debut novel The Genesis of Misery is full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses, and prophetic heirs. Download a FREE sneak peek today! This is the story Misery Nomaki (she/they), a nobody from a nowhere mining planet. Misery has abilities they shouldn’t though: they can bend the will of stone, a dangerous magic that only "saints" are said to have. These abilities lead Misery to the center of the Empire, where rumors spread that Misery is the next Messiah, and where those in power seek to use Misery to win a terrible war. Amid a nest of vipers, Misery grows close to a rebellious royal, Lady Alodia Lightning, and decides to embrace the legacy the prophecies speak of. True or false, for better or worse, Misery Nomaki will be the Ninth Messiah. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Maggie Pearson
Publisher : Darby Creek
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512413427

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Magic and Misery by Maggie Pearson Pdf

A little old man learns the secret behind a magical fiddle. An undersea princess leaves her amber palace for love. A mule waits for revenge on the one who wronged her . . . Explore folktales, myths, legends, and fables from around the world. From magical to funny, tender to terrifying, these stories carry the spirit of diverse cultures and traditions around the world.

Author : C. A.W.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781796012378

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Brooding Misery by C. A.W. Pdf

The main subject of Brooding Misery in large margin requires no description. Its mood is utterly bleak; however, there is much hope between the lines: “Long is the way and hard that out of Hell leads up to light.” This quote, taken from John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” functions moreover as the key to understanding the central theme of the book, which is transcendence. In the broadest sense, it regards the bounds and fetters of one’s own personal hatred—in turn, calling it to the surface, illuminating it, and exercising it like a poison from one’s own soul. The narrator’s conflict is expressed and is defined through various negative emotions running through the book, which is rife with themes of self-loathing, guilt, pride, shame, anger, treachery, and of course, misery. Throughout the book, the narrator gives voice to his inner spiritual struggles yet, by the end of the journey, seeks to rise up against the darkness that permeates the depths within.