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"Break on Through examines the mental health profession, activism, and the American mind in the 1970s. In exploring 'radicalism' and 'anti-psychiatry', Lucas Richert helps the reader understand changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and struggles within the American Psychiatric Association but he also sheds new light on emergent mental health therapies (transactional analysis, Primal Therapy), Scientology, and the rise...
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Viktor E. Frankl, conocido mundialmente por su obra El hombre en busca de sentido y como fundador de la Logoterapia, denominada tambien la Tercera Escuela Vienesa de Psicoterapia, nos muestra en este libro que el hombre no solo se halla dominado por una impulsividad inconsciente, como pretende Freud, sino que tambien hay en el una espiritualidad inconsciente. A partir del modelo de la conciencia y de la interpretacion de los suenos, enriquecido con...
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Details the advances in the studies of the history and physiology of schizophrenia and illustrates current research aimed at finding a cure. Discusses the newer medications and the importance of long term care, included interviews with patients, psychiatrists, and mental health nurses.
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A haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss. Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison--who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion--could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. She looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic...
196) Make it right
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Donovan Montgomery thriller volume 1
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Donovan Montgomery is Chicago's top forensic psychiatrist, an expert on behavioral deviance whose belief in law and order and convincing testimony has locked up the city's worst criminals. With her latest case, the stakes have never been higher. Violence and racial tensions are boiling over in the Windy City. A neo-Nazi is running for congress, while a white supremacist is being tried for a triple murder. It will be Donovan's job to derail the candidate...
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The Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was more than a building; it embodied an entire era of uniquely American history, from the unparalleled humanitarian efforts of Dorothea Dix to the revolutionary architectural concepts of Thomas Story Kirkbride. After well over a century of service, Greystone was left abandoned in 2008. From the time it closed until its demolition in 2015, Greystone became the focal point of a passionate preservation effort...
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"This hands-on user's guide to the groundbreaking Wheel of Awareness meditation practice featured in the New York Times bestseller Aware takes readers step-by-step through a twenty-one-day journey to discover what it means to be truly present and aware in our daily lives"--
"In today's increasingly fast-paced world it can be difficult to find moments to catch your breath, regain inner balance, and just . . . be. This simple yet profound guide shows...
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