A Manifesto For Mental Health

Author : Peter Kinderman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030243869
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Manifesto for Mental Health written by Peter Kinderman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Manifesto for Mental Health presents a radically new and distinctive outlook that critically examines the dominant ‘disease-model’ of mental health care. Incorporating the latest findings from both biological neuroscience and research into the social determinants of psychological problems, Peter Kinderman offers a contemporary, biopsychosocial, alternative. He warns that the way we care for people with mental health problems is creating a hidden human rights emergency and he proposes a new vision for the future of health organisations across the globe. The book highlights persuasive evidence that our mental health and wellbeing depend largely on the society in which we live, on the things happen to us, and on how we learn to make sense of and respond to those events. Kinderman proposes a rejection of invalid diagnostic labels, practical help rather than medication, and a recognition that distress is usually an understandable human response to life's challenges. Offering a serious critique of establishment thinking, A Manifesto for Mental Health provides a well-crafted demonstration of how, with scientific rigour and empathy, a revolution in mental health care is not only highly desirable, it is also entirely achievable.

Author : P. Kinderman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137408715
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Prescription for Psychiatry written by P. Kinderman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a manifesto for an entirely new approach to psychiatric care; one that truly offers care rather than coercion, therapy rather than medication, and a return to the common sense appreciation that distress is usually an understandable reaction to life's challenges.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780900557644
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Concern written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nassir Ghaemi
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143121332
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A First-Rate Madness written by Nassir Ghaemi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller “A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . .” —The Boston Globe “A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi’s book deserves high marks for original thinking.” —The Washington Post “Provocative, fascinating.” —Salon.com Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: The very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. From the importance of Lincoln's "depressive realism" to the lackluster leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain, A First-Rate Madness overturns many of our most cherished perceptions about greatness and the mind.

Author : Timothy A. Kelly
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814748120
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing the Broken Mind written by Timothy A. Kelly and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have come a long way over the past few decades in our understanding of mental illness and its potential treatments. Yet, tragically, many across the country who struggle with serious mental illness are unable to find effective, quality medical treatment. As a federal commission on mental health concluded, the system of care is in shambles. But why? And how do we fix it?" "Timothy A. Kelly, former Commissioner of Virginia's Department of Mental Health, Retardation, and Substance Abuse, brings his three decades of experience as mental health commissioner, psychology professor, and clinician to bear in confronting this crisis in America's mental health care system. In clear and accessible terms, he exposes the weaknesses in the current system, examining how and why one of the world's richest and most advanced countries has allowed its most vulnerable citizens to be victimized by the very system designed to help them." --Book Jacket.

Author : Hetan Shah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899407910
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Well-being Manifesto for a Flourishing Society written by Hetan Shah and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lakeba H. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mental Health Manifesto written by Lakeba H. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MENTAL HEALTH MANIFESTO IS A SPIRITUAL APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS. IN IT YOU'LL FIND POWERFUL AFFIRMATIONS DESIGNED TO INSPIRE YOU TO HAVE A MORE POSITIVE MENTAL IMAGE OF YOURSELF AND OTHERS.

Author : Chris Kraatz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780761834731
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Recovery written by Chris Kraatz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder are some of the most deadly "mental illnesses;" however, research into the nature of these conditions and possible treatments remains virtually unfunded. As a result, there is no standard model of treatment for eating disorders and no definitive information on the number of people in the U.S. who suffer from one or more of these conditions. Radical Recovery openly addresses the national epidemic of eating disorders and offers practical suggestions for how to effectively promote awareness and change in a more responsible and compassionate way. Issues addressed include success rates for eating disorders treatment, current research, mortality and eating disorders, the presence of eating disorders in both sexes and all ages, overcoming social stigma, and eating disorders activism.

Author : Karen M. Wright
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 152978672X
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Mental Health Nursing written by Karen M. Wright and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you studying mental health nursing and want a book that covers all you need to know? Look no further. As it says in the name, this is an essential text for students. Split into 5 parts, this book delves into the context of mental health, key concepts and debates, skills for care and therapeutic approaches, tailoring care to people with specific needs, and transition to practice. Updated to include more content from those with lived experience, this new edition also includes: - Voices of mental health service users and practitioners, giving you a real insight in the field - Critical thinking stop points and debates, allowing you to develop your wider skills and knowledge - Case studies to bring the content to life - Chapter summaries, so you know what the main takeaways are for each chapter - Further reading and useful websites, allowing you to do your own research The editors, Karen M. Wright and Mick McKeown come with a wealth of experience in mental health nursing. The variety of contributors also reflect different experiences in different contexts.

Author : Bernard Guerin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100009474X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning Mental Health into Social Action written by Bernard Guerin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a refreshing new approach to mental health by showing how ‘mental health’ behaviours, lived experiences, and our interventions arise from our social worlds and not from our neurophysiology gone wrong. It is part of a trilogy which offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people’s social and societal environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal and individualistic attributions. ‘Mental health’ behaviours are carefully analysed as ordinary behaviours which have become exaggerated and chronic because of the bad life situations people are forced to endure, especially as children. This shifts mental health treatments away from the dominance of psychology and psychiatry to show that social action is needed because many of these bad life situations are produced by our modern society itself. By providing new ways for readers to rethink everything they thought they knew about mental health issues and how to change them, Bernard Guerin also explores how by changing our environmental contexts (our local, societal, and discursive worlds), we can improve mental health interventions. This book reframes ‘mental health’ into a much wider social context to show how societal structures restrict our opportunities and pathways to produce bad life situations, and how we can also learn from those who manage to deal with the very same bad life situations through crime, bullying, exploitation, and dropping out of mainstream society, rather than through the ‘mental health’ behaviours. By merging psychology and psychiatry into the social sciences, Guerin seeks to better understand how humans operate in their social, cultural, economic, patriarchal, discursive, and societal worlds, rather than being isolated inside their heads with a ‘faulty brain’, and this will provide fascinating reading for academics and students in psychology and the social sciences, and for counsellors and therapists.