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Voluntary Madness

Norah Vincent
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Author : Norah Vincent
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781440641039

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From the author of The New York Times bestseller Self- Made Man, a captivating expose of depression and mental illness in America Revelatory, deeply personal, and utterly relevant, Voluntary Madness is a controversial work that unveils the state of mental healthcare in the United States from the inside out. At the conclusion of her celebrated first book--Self-Made Man, in which she soent eighteen months disguised as a man-Norah Vincent found herself emotionally drained and severely depressed. Determined but uncertain about maintaining her own equilibrium, she boldly committed herself to three different facilities-a big-city hospital, a private clinic in the Midwest, and finally an upscale retreat in the South. Voluntary Madness is the chronicle of Vincent's journey through the world of the mentally ill as she struggles to find her own health and happiness.

Self-made Man

Norah Vincent
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Author : Norah Vincent
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0670034665

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A Los Angeles Times columnist recounts her eighteen-month undercover stint as a man, a time during which she underwent considerable personal risks as she worked a sales job, joined a bowling league, frequented sex clubs, dated, and encountered firsthand the rigid codes and rituals of masculinity. 80,000 first printing.

Psychology and Other Stories

C. P. Boyko
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Author : C. P. Boyko
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781926845517

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FINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE “C.P. Boyko's second offering is brilliantly bold. Playful and dire and scholarly all at once, Psychology may well be the most audaciously original collection of Canadian fiction, ever. Mr. Mustard alone is worth the price of admission.”—Bill Gaston, author of Mount Appetite “Very revealing.”—Hubert T. Ross, PhD, PsyD, DPsy Psychologists are people we admire and resent. At best, they’re compassionate detectives of the human soul, healers and diagnosticians, assessing the internal machinations that structure our lives and behavior. At worst, however, they’re smug, hyper-educated, bombastic, yappy, socially deaf, thrice-divorced and twice-separated spouse-swapping cat-torturing perverts. Plus, they’re all in this book. And so are their patients. C.P. Boyko’s Psychology and Other Stories is replete with analysts, attorneys, criminals, Freudians, wardens, and self-help gurus. From Dr. Pringle’s treatment-resisting young patient in “Reaction-Formation” to the philandering forensic psychiatrist of “The Blood-Brain Barrier,” Psychology is a droll dissection of industry archetypes—as well as a brilliant study of mental illness, mental health, and the people who try to tell them apart.

Managing Madness

Erika Dyck,Alex Deighton
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Author : Erika Dyck,Alex Deighton
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780887555350

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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.

The Liberal Mind

Lyle H. Rossiter
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Author : Lyle H. Rossiter
Publisher : Free World Books llc
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : 097795630X

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Why do modern liberals think and act as they do? The radical left's politics and its destructive effects on our basic freedoms have provoked many to specualte on what makes these people tick. The Liberal Mind answers the quetion. This book is the first systematic analysis of the political madness that now threatens to destroy the West's greatest achievement: the American dream of civilized liberty. - Back cover.

Voluntary Madness

Vicki Hendricks
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Author : Vicki Hendricks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 168454808X

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Punch and Juliette make a pack to live a wild life in Key West for a year, creating scenes to use in his novel, with the climax a suicide during Fantasy Fest. But the money runs out early, and their escapades take a serious turn. Bohemian atmosphere, Romeo and Juliet on a motorcycle, the meaning of love explored at Coral Castle--in high gear.

Thy Neighbor

Norah Vincent
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Author : Norah Vincent
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101583784

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From the New York Times bestselling author, a first novel as spellbinding as her acclaimed nonfiction At thirty-four, Nick Walsh is a broken, deeply cynical man. Since the violent deaths of his parents thirteen years earlier, he has been living alone in his childhood home in the suburban Midwest, drinking, drugging, and debauching himself into oblivion. A measure of solace is provided by his newly found relationship with Monica, a mysterious woman who seems to harbor as many secrets as he does. Obsessed with understanding the circumstances surrounding his parents’ deaths and deranged by his relentless sorrow, Nick begins a campaign of spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones he has covertly installed in their houses. As he observes with amusement and disbelief all the strange, sad, and terrifying things that his neighbors do to themselves and to one another, and as he, in turn, learns that he is being stalked, he begins to slowly unravel the shocking truth about how and why his parents died. At once unsettling and moving, humorous and horrifying, Thy Neighbor explores the nature of grief, the potential isolation of suburban life, and who we really are when we think no one is watching. What readers and critics have admired in Norah Vincent’s nonfiction is completely unleashed in this vivid and provocative novel.

Madness & Mayhem

Emma Slate
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Author : Emma Slate
Publisher : Tabula Rasa Publishing LLC
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781955098083

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A single night can change everything. Now I’m pregnant with a biker’s baby. I try to give Slash an out, but he claims me. He wants more. He wants us. He wants to protect me and our baby. Slash is rugged and virile, and I’m falling for him hard and fast. I know he’s not white-picket-fence material, but he makes me feel safe and adored. I never thought I’d be with a man like him. But he’s so wrong he might be my right.

The Madness of Grief

Richard Coles
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Author : Richard Coles
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781474619646

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Immensely moving and disarmingly witty' Nigella Lawson 'Such a moving, tough, funny, raw, honest read' Matt Haig 'Beautifully written, moving and gut-wrenching, but also at times very funny' Ian Rankin 'Captures brilliantly, beautifully, bravely the comedy as well as the tragedy of bereavement' The Times 'Will strike a chord with anyone who has grieved' Independent Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife, or being called out to perform the last rites, death is part of the Reverend Richard Coles's life and work. But when his partner the Reverend David Coles died, shortly before Christmas in 2019, much about death took Coles by surprise. For one thing, David's death at the early age of forty-three was unexpected. The man that so often assists others to examine life's moral questions now found himself in need of help. He began to look to others for guidance to steer him through his grief. The flock was leading the shepherd. Much about grief surprised him: the volume of 'sadmin' you have to do when someone dies, how much harder it is travelling for work alone, even the pain of typing a text message to your partner - then realising you are alone. The Reverend Richard Coles's deeply personal account of life after grief will resonate, unforgettably, with anyone who has lost a loved one.

Inheriting Madness

Ian Dowbiggin
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Author : Ian Dowbiggin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520909939

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Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness, Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the nineteenth century to illuminate the nature and evolution of psychiatry during this period. In Dowbiggin's mind, this fondness for hereditarianism stemmed from the need to reconcile two counteracting factors. On the one hand, psychiatrists were attempting to expand their power and privileges by excluding other groups from the treatment of the mentally ill. On the other hand, medicine's failure to effectively diagnose, cure, and understand the causes of madness made it extremely difficult for psychiatrists to justify such an expansion. These two factors, Dowbiggin argues, shaped the way psychiatrists thought about insanity, encouraging them to adopt hereditarian ideas, such as the degeneracy theory, to explain why psychiatry had failed to meet expectations. Hereditarian theories, in turn, provided evidence of the need for psychiatrists to assume more authority, resources, and cultural influence. Inheriting Madness is a forceful reminder that psychiatric notions are deeply rooted in the social, political, and cultural history of the profession itself. At a time when genetic interpretations of mental disease are again in vogue, Dowbiggin demonstrates that these views are far from unprecedented, and that in fact they share remarkable similarities with earlier theories. A familiarity with the history of the psychiatric profession compels the author to ask whether or not public faith in it is warranted.

Self-Made Madness

Edward W. Mitchell
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Author : Edward W. Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351901222

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This multi-disciplinary book lies in the general areas of forensic psychiatry/psychology, sociology, jurisprudence, criminal law and criminology. It questions traditional assumptions about illness and mental disorder, and deals with the controversial notion that mental disorders (and possibly other 'illnesses') may be to varying extents the fault of the 'sufferer'. It examines how the law can take into account such 'culpable' notions of mental disorder in determining criminal responsibility. This culpability for the defense-causing condition (or 'responsibility for level of criminal responsibility') is called 'meta-responsibility'. The book is divided into two parts. The first section discusses theoretical issues, such as the manner in which traditional illness models relate to meta-responsibility; the insanity defence and other mental condition defences; the relationship of clinical issues such as medication non-compliance and insight to meta-responsibility and the counterfactual notion that consideration of the possible voluntary origins of mental disorder may benefit the criminal and non-criminal mentally disordered. The second section of the book presents a case vignette experiment of mock jurors, examining the effect of a 'meta-responsibility insanity test'.

Micaden's Madness

V. F. Mason
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Author : V. F. Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793215200

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If madness has a name...it's hers. She is an artist seeking solace. He is a serial killer seeking vengeance.She doesn't remember.He remembers it all.She is broken.He is obsessed.She wants truth.He wants revenge.One of them is guilty.One of them is innocent.Both of them want to win.And for that one of them has to die.Warning: Dark Romance18+ due to sexual content, profanity, abuse, graphic violence, and adult subject matter.

The Manufacture of Madness

Thomas Szasz
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Author : Thomas Szasz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Iatrogenic diseases
ISBN : UOM:39015043248882

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Refers to psychiatric interventions imposed on persons by others.

The Colour of Madness

Samara Linton,Rianna Walcott
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Author : Samara Linton,Rianna Walcott
Publisher : Skiddaw Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0992651441

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The Colour of Madness by Samara Linton,Rianna Walcott Pdf

The Colour of Madness is a seminal BAME led & curated anthology, comprised of poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs and art submitted by BAME writers, academics, mental health workers, artists and those still navigating life with mental health problems. Exploring the BAME mental health experience in the UK

Montessori Madness

Trevor Eissler,Rebecca Lowe
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Author : Trevor Eissler,Rebecca Lowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 098228330X

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"We know we need to improve our traditional school system, both public and private. But how? More homework? Better-qualified teachers? Longer school days or school years? More testing? More funding? No, no, no, no, and no. Montessori Madness! explains why the incremental steps politicians and administrators continue to propose are incremental steps politicians and administrators continue to propose are incremental steps in the wrong direction. The entire system must be turned on its head. This book ask parents to take a look--one thirty-minute observation--at a Montessori school. Your picture of what educations should look like will never be the same"--Back cover.