Mental Health

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.

Betrayal Trauma

Jennifer Freyd’s 1996 Trauma Betrayal: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse is a powerful work dealing with the often forgotten element of be…

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Biological Unhappiness

Dr. Heller opens his book with the first chapter covering introduction and goals. He tells the reader a bit about himself and what his intentions are for th…

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Points of View

Dr. Mitchell has written this short book for students who are learning about descriptive psychopathology: medical students, residents in psychiatry, psychol…

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Children Changed by Trauma

This is an extremely helpful book, with a wealth of useful information presented in a warm supportive style. The book’s point of view is of you helping y…

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Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis

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Psychiatry and Religion

Of late, there have been two types of literature on the relationship of religion and mental health. The first has been a more philosophical approach to t…

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Recollection, Testimony, and Lying in Early Childhood

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The Explosive Child

Even though The Explosive Child has over 300 pages and 14 chapters, it elaborates an extremely simple set of ideas. Some children have great difficu…

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR

The production of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-I) in 1952 marked a milestone in the development of diagnostic protocols f…

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Family Experiences With Mental Illness

In this volume of a little over 180 pages, Richard Tessler and Gail Gamache present their case for greater support for and involvement of families in car…

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The Plural Self

Table of Contents:“Mick Cooper and John Rowan Introduction: Self-Plurality:“The One and the Many PART ONE: THEORY John Rowan The“Normal Development of Subpersonalities James S Grotstein“The Alter Ego and Déjà Vu Phenomena: Notes and R

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Women and Mental Illness

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Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders

This book is what it says it is–a handbook for treating depression and anxiety disorders. It must also be noted that this is a cognitive handbook, although…

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Al-Junun

This book is outstanding. Beneath the surface of a collection of dry, scholarly discourses lie a fascinating dissection of mental illness and well-be…

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Manic Depression and Creativity

With Manic Depression and Creativity, Hershman and Lieb update their 1988 book, The Key to Genius: Manic-Depression and the Creative Life.…

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Rebuilding Shattered Lives

Rebuilding Shattered Lives is a state-of-the-art guide that has much to offer those who work with clients with complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorder…

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Mental Health Matters

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Speaking Our Minds

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Understanding and Treating Violent Psychiatric Patients

‘Violence’ in Red First Sentences: “Violent patients readily provoke fear, anger, and revulsion” (Introduction); “After a serious…

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Gender and Its Effects on Psychopathology

Gender and Its Effects on Psychopathology is an admirably clear, well-organized collection bringing together review articles by more than twenty a…

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Vulnerability to Psychopathology

As both an encyclopedic review and an integration of research related to the etiology of psychological conditions, Vulnerability to Psychopatho…

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Abnormal Psychology in Context

I was looking for a book that would provide an introduction to abnormal psychology. But I didn’t want the standard lists of symptoms, typical course of d…

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Signs of Safety

The world-weary child protective worker’s black humor goes something like this: “What’s the difference between a pit-bull and a social worker? Sometimes…

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The Employee Assistance Treatment Planner

Includes disk with software. Also available in a version without disk.

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Creating Hysteria

Joan Acocella, who is both a dance critic and a co-author of a…

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