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The Bitterest Pills
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Bitterest Pills

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-15
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  • Publisher: Springer

A challenging reappraisal of the history of antipsychotics, revealing how they were transformed from neurological poisons into magical cures, their benefits exaggerated and their toxic effects minimized or ignored.

The Myth of the Chemical Cure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The Myth of the Chemical Cure

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-13
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book overturns the idea that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have shaped this view. It provides a comprehensive critique of research on drugs including antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers.

A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs

In an era when more people are taking psychiatric drugs than ever before, Joanna Moncrieff's explosive book challenges the claims for their mythical powers. Drawing on extensive research, she demonstrates that psychiatric drugs do not 'treat' or 'cure' mental illness by acting on hypothesised chemical imbalances or other abnormalities in the brain. There is no evidence for any of these ideas. Moreover, any relief the drugs may offer from the distress and disturbance of a mental disorder can come at great cost to people's physical health and their ability to function in day-to-day life. And, once on these drugs, coming off them can be very difficult indeed. This book is a wake-up call to the potential damage we are doing to ourselves by relying on chemical cures for human distress. Its clear, concise explanations will enable people to make a fully informed decision about the benefits and harms of these drugs and whether and how to come off them if they so choose.

De-Medicalizing Misery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

De-Medicalizing Misery

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-10-12
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  • Publisher: Springer

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences.

Theoretical Chemistry and Physics of Heavy and Superheavy Elements
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

Theoretical Chemistry and Physics of Heavy and Superheavy Elements

Quantum mechanics provides the fundamental theoretical apparatus for describing the structure and properties of atoms and molecules in terms of the behaviour of their fundamental components, electrons and nudeL For heavy atoms and molecules containing them, the electrons can move at speeds which represent a substantial fraction of the speed of light, and thus relativity must be taken into account. Relativistic quantum mechanics therefore provides the basic formalism for calculating the properties of heavy-atom systems. The purpose of this book is to provide a detailed description of the application of relativistic quantum mechanics to the many-body prob lem in the theoretical chemistry and p...

Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage, Titles of Courtesy and the Knightage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1456

Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage, Titles of Courtesy and the Knightage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1878
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes an unpaged appendix, "royal warrant holders," and 19 a "war honours supplement."

Dragonfly Summer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 145

Dragonfly Summer

No small town’s secrets can stay buried for long. Moncrieff digs into the treachery of memory and the power of female friendships... "Moncrieff’s new book is rich in narrative and empathy [...] This is an exceptional story that really trends a fine line balance between two worlds of small town life and action paced thriller that is really a hard thing to balance but she does this as a pro." - Literary License Podcast Dragonfly Summer is a gripping thriller that asks: What happens when the past comes back to haunt you? Jo Carter never thought she'd return to Clear Springs, Minnesota. But when the former journalist receives a cryptic note about the disappearance of her friend Sam twenty ye...

Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosystems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 455

Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosystems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-04-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Tropical ecosystems - the regions between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn - play an important role in global processes, economic issues, and political concerns. In their natural state, tropical ecosystems support a large quantity of above- and below-ground biomass, and constitute a major part of the terrestrial carbon pool. Conversion of the natural ecosystem to agriculture and forestry ecosystems disturbs this ecological balance. Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosystems presents data on carbon pool fluxes from case studies in 12 countries in tropical regions. The chapters cover: Characteristics of tropical ecosystems Soil and biotic carbon pools Impacts of land use and soil management Slash-and-burn practices Crop residue and fertility management This volume adds to the understanding of pedospheric processes in tropical ecosystems and how to better use soils as a sink for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. With Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosystems you will understand the link between soil productivity, environmental quality and the global carbon cycle, not only in these ecologically sensitive regions but worldwide.