Mental Health
Here you will find books on the subject of mental health. Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
DSM-IV-TR Mental Disorders
DSM-IV-TR Mental Disorders is a large book at 1323 pages of main text. It is closely parallel to DSM-IV-TR and uses material from…
Dante’s Cure
Dante’s Cure is a true account of Catherine Penney’s disintegration into a regressed psychotic state at age nineteen, her three years in hospital,…
Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding
I have often speculated that hoarding is a more prevalent problem that is generally recognized. One sees advertisements offering ways to help alcoholics…
Hope and Despair
Despite its title, this book is not focused on hope and despair. In fact, it has no focus. It is true that the book begins with a very brief chapter on…
Treating Affect Phobia
Treating Affect Phobia is a sequel to an earlier work by the first author, Changing Character: Short Term Anxiety-Regulating Psychotherapy for…
Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion?
In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche criticizes Plato and Socrates for holding the belief that their views are not merely one of a number of ways of…
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Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry
Thomas Szasz has written more than a dozen books, most of them elaborations on the fundamental themes of his first major work, The Myth of Mental Illn…
Treating Chronic and Severe Mental Disorders
This is a well-researched, carefully edited and very useful technical handbook for clinicians, researchers and students providing psychological treatment…
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A Beautiful Mind
It is hard to understand why Ron Howard’s movie A Beautiful Mind, the story of a Nobel Prize winning mathematician with schizophrenia, won…
Aggression and Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents
In the 480 pages of this book, Connor has assembled, organized and discussed an immense treasure-trove of information about a problem that poses an ever…
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The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia
This is a most significant book, published at a crucial time and attempting to answer some of the most fundamental questions in research into one of the…
The Wisdom in Feeling
Emotional intelligence, "the ability to perceive, appraise and express emotions accurately; the ability to access and generate feelings to facilitat…
Emotions and Life
Emotions have recently become a prominent topic, with popular books like Emotional Intelligence, Descartes’ Error and The Emotional Brai…
Study Guide to the DSM-IV-TR
Any system that tries to quantify and qualify the wide, disorderly and vague set of phenomena that make up the human experience along its continua, is a…
DSM-IV-TR in Action
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the manual utilized by most mental health professionals to diagnose clients. T…
Brain Circuitry and Signaling in Psychiatry
So much has been published in recent years, and so much of it in the mental health professions. Not all of it has been exemplary, most of it entry level…
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Alterations of Consciousness
In Alterations of Consciousness, ImantsBaruss, a psychology professor, examines consciousness, an intriguing and controversial subject in cognitiv…
Repressed Spaces
The project of Paul Carter’s book, Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia, begins with — is, in fact, propelled by — an anecdote from Theo…
Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Theory
A re-issue of this classic book is welcome, now that sufficient time has elapsed to gain a historical perspective on so-called "anti-psychiatry"…
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Blueprints Clinical Cases in Psychiatry
This book of cases with multiple-choice questions is aimed at medical students in the US who have to take the Step 2 & 3 USMLE and who have to go on…
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Women’s Mental Health
This is a fascinating and informative book built on the central premise that men and women ought to be diagnosed and treated differently by mental health…
Emergency Psychiatry
This brief overview of emergency psychiatry is the 21st in the Review of Psychiatry series published by American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. The series i…
The Fasting Girl
I enjoyed reading this very interesting book and found it thought-provoking. The author, a journalist, tells the story of Mollie Fancher, who spent fi…
Living with Schizophrenia
Living with Schizophrenia is a 39-minute video explaining what it is like to have schizophrenia and how people cope with it. Several people with…
Dr. Andrew Weil’s Guide to Optimum Health
In this audiobook course on health and wellness, Andrew Weil sets out his ideas on what are often called "complementary" or "alternative&q…
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