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Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of lunatiks at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love...
Author
Series
Research and program evaluation volume no. 4
Publisher
Colorado State Hospital
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
iii, 29 p. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Crossroads crisis center volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Brandt, owner of the Crossroads Crisis Center, hasn't set foot in the center since his wife and son were murdered a few years earlier. Then Susan comes to the center, beaten and battered, suffering a case of amnesia, and also bearing a close resemblance to Benjamin's deceased wife, also named Susan, and wearing the dead woman's cross necklace.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. ... But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding: a heavily-medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxix, 306 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America's broken mental health care system As director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the back of the room, "Our house is on fire and you're telling me about the chemistry of the paint! What are you doing to put out the fire?" Dr. Insel knew in his heart that the answer was not...
Author
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Ethnic minorities underutilize mental health services, and when they do seek treatment, dropout rates are high. The need for culturally sensitive therapies that incorporate the spiritual values of the minority client cannot be overstated. Authors Ricardo Carrillo, PhD, and Concepcion Martinez Saucedo, PhD, argue that traditional Mesoamerican healing approaches to mental health issues can and should be used by a wide variety of health care practitioners...
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
202 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The nation's leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to helping those living with mental illness provides clear, honest, jargon-free information for anyone struggling emotionally and looking for help.
13) Blind spot
Author
Series
Chesapeake valor volume 3
Language
English
Description
When FBI agent Declan Grey's investigation of a terrorist cell leads him to an insular immigrant community, he turns to crisis counselor Tanner Shaw for help in stopping a deadly plot.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"There was a huge public outpouring to the ... articles in The New York Times about Family Foundation School, a last-resort institution for troubled teens in upstate New York. It described the near 50% death rate of alumni--including many by suicide--and how the survivors lived with their trauma in the years after leaving the school. A follow-up piece ... covered the shocking facts that came to light through multiple lawsuits and the continuing fight...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Is mental illness-- or madness-- at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This book explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers...
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