Psychward

Author : Ross Alastair Wilson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780244446048

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Psych Ward by Ross Alastair Wilson Pdf

This is a strange book. Make no bones about it, it's weird. What can you do? I suppose you don't have to read it. But then what would be the point of all the words sitting there if you don't even bother to read them eh? I don't know, what are you like? Thinking of jumping ship already? Lightweight. Okay. So...this book is weird, it's strange but, hopefully, it's fun! Good! Let it be so! Okie dokie then. That'll do for a prologue won't it? I don't know, do I have to say anything else? What goes into a prologue then? It's sort of the stuff before the main stuff isn't it? Um, well, er, I can't be arsed! Oh yeah...um...no... I forgot. Oh well, without further ado... hold on, I've just thought of something, yeah... SO you lot are lucky in a way, because I've read this book loooooads of times and the words by this point have kind of lost all meaning - but for you they probably still have that "new book" feeling to them. Good for you!

Author : J.W. Ochoa McManus
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781664158603

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Psych Ward by J.W. Ochoa McManus Pdf

John Carlisle, a young, intelligent, and imaginative boy is sent to a psych ward without knowing why. This was no ordinary psych ward. Patients here, including John, were abused by those meant to treat them. Extraordinary methods were used to “keep them in line.” As John cries for help, to other patients and those he trusts, he receives only a deaf ear. How can he find the hope for help when everyone fears they will undergo the same harsh treatment felt by the patients at the psych ward? John can only tolerate this treatment for so long. What will he do to escape this living hell? Read this suspenseful thriller to see how John’s twisted imagination sets him free.

Author : David Finnegan-Hosey
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898690514

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Christ on the Psych Ward by David Finnegan-Hosey Pdf

- Applicable not just to those with mental health issues, but for churches and the church at large

Author : Jennifer Turner
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798886446180

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From the Psych Ward to the Sanctuary by Jennifer Turner Pdf

Find hope for healing and deliverance from despair. Have you ever felt defective? Questioned your value? Wondered if life is worth it? Believed that everyone has it more together than you? Did you think you were too messed up? Too flawed? Too broken? Jennifer Turner allowed these thoughts and more to flood her mind and drown out her true identity in Christ for most of her life, especially when diagnosed with mental illness. In From the Psych Ward to the Sanctuary, Jennifer reveals how to go from living life in defeat and agony to finding lasting hope and freedom. By allowing God and others to enter into her suffering, she learned invaluable lessons that brought her out of the darkness. Begin to debunk the lies that hold you back and live a life of restoration today in this hundred-day devotional.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13T22:59:00Z
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798822508712

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Summary of Mark Lukach's My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was in love with my wife, Giulia, when I first saw her at a party. We spent the whole night immersed in flirtatious conversation. We were a couple within a month. We were both blown away by how amazing it feels to love someone and be loved back. #2 I had been planning to go to law school, but now in my college years, I wasn’t doing a good job of convincing myself of that. I haphazardly signed up for humanities courses and cobbled together a history major with an English minor. #3 I loved to make Giulia laugh, because it was like creating a private memory that was ours and ours only. Little things like this pulled me deeper into my infatuation. #4 I moved to Baltimore to teach high school, and Giulia moved to Manhattan to work in fashion. We tried every possible angle to end up in the same city, but we never did. I made a close friend in Baltimore, and spent time with his family.

Author : Mark Lukach
Publisher : Bluebird
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Husband and wife
ISBN : 1509805966

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My Lovely Wife by Mark Lukach Pdf

Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal, convinced that she was the devil and that her loved ones were not safe. All she wanted was to die. Eventually, Giulia fully recovered, and the couple had a son. But, soon after Jonas was born, Giulia had another breakdown, and then a third a few years after that. pushed to the edge of the abyss, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended. A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity of the human spirit, My Lovely Wife is, above all, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor, radiant with compassion, and written with dazzling lyricism, Lukach's is an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife's mental illness, anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers' faith in the power of love.

Author : Stephen B. Seager
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425132978

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Psychward by Stephen B. Seager Pdf

The riveting true story of an aspiring psychiatrist's year of discovery, frustration, and triumph, this shockingly candid memoir is a real-life One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Emotionally charged --Kirkus.

Author : Kathleen Stewart
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1794120203

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Prison Panties & Psych Ward Socks by Kathleen Stewart Pdf

How does a woman who had a "normal" middle-class upbringing in a Catholic home end up incarcerated twice and admitted into the psychiatric ward of the hospital for observation? Where did things turn and how did she fight to re-gain her life? Follow her journey through her relationships, including the most tumultuous, controlling, abusive one, that shaped her into the warrior-God following-advocate she is striving to be today.

Author : Dennis O'Donnell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448130160

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The Locked Ward by Dennis O'Donnell Pdf

An extraordinary account of life behind the locked doors of a secure psychiatric ward from a nurse who worked there for seven years. Dennis O'Donnell started work as an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit of a large hospital in Scotland in 2000. In his daily life he encountered fear, violence and despair but also a considerable amount of care and compassion. Recounting the stories of the patients he worked with, and those of his colleagues on the ward, here he examines major mental health conditions, methods of treatment - medication, how religion, sex, wealth, health and drugs can bear influence on mental health, the prevailing attitudes to psychiatric illness, the authorities, the professionals & society. What emerges is a document of humanity and humour, a remarkable memoir that sheds light on a world that still remains largely unknown. 'This is a superb study of people whose minds have gone wrong, and the art of caring for them' Evening Standard

Author : Maxwell Ruel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365421877

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PsychWard by Maxwell Ruel Pdf

Author : Susanna Kaysen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804151115

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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen Pdf

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

Author : Erika Dyck,Alex Deighton
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780887555350

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Managing Madness by Erika Dyck,Alex Deighton Pdf

The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century. Built in 1921, Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was considered the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst facilities in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted international attention for engaging in controversial therapeutic interventions, including treatments using LSD. In the 1960s, sweeping healthcare reforms took hold in the province and mental health institutions underwent dramatic changes as they began transferring patients into communities. As the patient and staff population shrunk, the once palatial building fell into disrepair, the asylum’s expansive farmland went out of cultivation, and mental health services folded into a complicated web of social and correctional services. Erika Dyck’s "Managing Madness" examines an institution that housed people we struggle to understand, help, or even try to change.

Author : Ned Vizzini
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423141082

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It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini Pdf

Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.

Author : Elizabeth Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781942872306

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Sometimes Amazing Things Happen by Elizabeth Ford Pdf

From the Executive Director of Mental Health for Correctional Services in New York City, comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue, and brings to life the world—the system, the staff, and the haunting cases—that shaped one young psychiatrist as she learned how to doctor and how to love. Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn’t until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling—to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York's jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care. These men were broken, unloved, without resources or support, and very ill. They could be violent, unpredictable, but they could also be funny and tender and needy. Mostly, they were human and they awakened in Ford a boundless compassion. Her patients made her a great doctor and a better person and, as she treated these men, she learned about doctoring, about nurturing, about parenting, and about love. While Ford was a psychiatrist at Bellevue she becomes a wife and a mother. In her book she shares her struggles to balance her life and her work, to care for her children and her patients, and to maintain the empathy that is essential to her practice—all in the face of a jaded institution, an exhausting workload, and the deeply emotionally taxing nature of her work. Ford brings humor, grace, and humanity to the lives of the patients in her care and in beautifully rendered prose illuminates the inner workings (and failings) of our mental health system, our justice system, and the prison system.

Author : William Dorian
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738761183

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The Holy Water Incident by William Dorian Pdf

From an Innocent Teenage Life ... ... To a Nightmare of Torment and Pain William Dorian and his daughter Brittany learned the hard way that demonic possession is very real. This captivating book tells the shocking story of Brittany's possession that began at age fifteen, recounting the overwhelming trauma that evil entities can wreak on a family's quiet life. The Holy Water Incident reveals the heartache, frustration, and sheer terror that results when the family receives a cold shoulder from the local religious authorities and when the medical establishment's only solution is confinement in a psychiatric unit. With little help from ministers or doctors, Brittany and her father desperately seek allies in a grueling spiritual battle that forever alters the lives of all who are involved. Beginning with an innocent session with a spirit communication board and building in intensity to the point where multiple demons take hold of an innocent teenager's life, this story shines a light on the traumatic wounds a possession can inflict ... and the extreme measures a family will take to save their daughter from evil entities that are hell-bent on chaos and destruction.