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Dancing with Medusa
"This is a story about Bella, a beautiful tale of caring, trust and emotional healing. It begins when Dr. Zal, a first-year resident in Psychiatry, meets a 20-year-old in the throws of a severe psychotic episode. It chronicles thirty-seven years of psychiatric treatment. Focusing on family relationships, he tells how both Bella and he resolved issues with a significant parent. Although his life was quite different, he was able to draw parallels that allowed him to empathize with some of her life events. Bella was a role model of strength, endurance and caring for her children and husband. She survived childhood abuse, molestation and a dysfunctional family background. In the end, mental illn...
A Psychiatrist's Guide to Successful Retirement and Aging
As the baby boomer generation becomes senior citizens and starts to flood into the last stage of life, a new definition and new expectations of retirement and aging are evolving. This is not your father’s way of being an older adult. People today tend not to retire in a traditional way. They envision getting older as a challenge to stay active and engaged, a chance to reinvent themselves, and an opportunity to reach for new goals. However, for some, this stage of life can be difficult, bringing with it a whole range of new challenges and obstacles. Along the way, many may deal with mental health problems such as stress and anxiety, grief and depression, drug and alcohol abuse, changes in m...
Panic Disorder
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Impotent
M-- is married with children and working a dead end job solely for the insurance and meager income. He's in a financial and emotional trough, and thus asks his doctor for Paxil because he's worried he'll never stop worrying. Meanwhile, L-- is a college dropout and construction worker. He self-medicates, starting with Ambien. After he accidentally cuts off some fingers he switches to Darvocet. Later his doctor leads him to Zoloft, once the cocktail of pharmaceuticals. The medicine is meant to wake him up, but instead puts him to sleep.
The Great Pretender
'Destined to become a popular and important book' Jon Ronson 'Fascinating' Sunday Times In the early 1970s, Stanford professor Dr Rosenhan conducted an experiment, sending sane patients into psychiatric wards; the result of which was a damning paper about psychiatric practises. The ripple effects of this paper helped bring the field of psychiatry to its knees, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But what if that ground-breaking and now-famous experiment was itself deeply flawed? And what does that mean for our understanding of mental illness today? These are the questions Susannah Cahalan asks in her completely engrossing investigation into this staggering case, where nothing is quite as it seems.
Lifespan Development in Context
Lifespan Development in Context corresponds to the organization of most lifespan development and developmental psychology textbooks, beginning with issues involving birth and infancy, continuing with childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and concluding with issues concerning dying and death. Each chapter contains 4-6 personal narratives, and each narrative covers a different concept, issue, or topic within a given age period.
The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care
Navigates the world of health-care services and long-term care facilities for the reader or for the reader's aging parents
