Alos And Other Tales From The Private Psychiatric Hospital

Author : Daniel Shattuck
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595221890
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ALOS* and Other Tales from the Private Psychiatric Hospital written by Daniel Shattuck and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A.L.O.S.and other tales from the private psychiatric hospital (*average length of stay)is a short, yet eventful journey through the painfully hilarious landscape of the private psychiatric hospital. This collection of true tales exposes the madness of mental health "mangled care", corporate psychiatry and the day to day tribulations of psychiatric patients via the skillful storytelling and humor of teacher and therapist, Dan Shattuck, M.Ed. If you've ever worked in the private psychiatric field, known a patient or been a patient yourself, you won't want to miss this robust approach to "sanity making".

Author : Terrence Real
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684865394
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Don't Want to Talk About It written by Terrence Real and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-03-11 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestseller for over 20 years, I Don’t Want to Talk About It is a groundbreaking and hopeful guide to understanding and destigmatizing male depression, essential not only for men who may be suffering but for the people who love them. Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced psychotherapist Terrence Real that depression is a silent epidemic in men—that men hide their condition from family, friends, and themselves to avoid the stigma of depression’s “un-manliness.” Problems that we think of as typically male—difficulty with intimacy, workaholism, alcoholism, abusive behavior, and rage—are really attempts to escape depression. And these escape attempts only hurt the people men love and pass their condition on to their children. This groundbreaking book is the “pathway out of darkness” that these men and their families seek. Real reveals how men can unearth their pain, heal themselves, restore relationships, and break the legacy of abuse. He mixes penetrating analysis with compelling tales of his patients and even his own experiences with depression as the son of a violent, depressed father and the father of two young sons.

Author : Jennifer Loring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615818795
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Ward written by Jennifer Loring and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanatorium, mental ward, psychiatric hospital - they're all the same. Places where the infirm, the crazy, and the certifiable go for treatment... Or what passes for 'treatment'. This is a collection of stories of bedlam taking place within the padded walls of an institution. Stories of experiments gone wrong, patients revolting against the staff, or even the deranged doings of those charged with giving care. They are sick, depraved, and atrocious - the type of stories that rarely reach the light of day. Are you brave enough to crawl inside the minds of the twelve authors who wrote these tales... Or are you afraid you'll be locked up for peeking?

Author : R. Paul Olson
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 0398076588
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health Systems Compared written by R. Paul Olson and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary objective of this book is to provide comprehensive descriptions and make comparative evaluations of each of the mental health systems of four Western, industrialized countries. The countries selected illustrate a continuum from a highly centralized and publicly financed, national health service in Great Britain to a predominantly decentralized and more privately financed market of mental health services in the United States. In between these two contrasting types are examples of national health services and insurance programs in Norway and Canada. Contributing experts from each country begin their chapters with an overview of the geographic, demographic, political, economic, and cultural contexts in which their mental health systems are situated. Thereafter, they (a) present national data to estimate the need for mental health services, (b) describe national mental health policies and programs designed to meet their population's need, (c) indicate how mental health services are organized and delivered, and (d) discuss how their system is financed and provided resources. A common chapter outline facilitates comparisons among all four systems on relevant evaluation criteria: (a) access and equity, (b) quality and efficacy, (c) cost and efficiency, (d) financing and fairness, (e) protection and participation, and (f) population relevance. In the final section of each chapter, the authors provide recommendations for improved performance of their mental health system. In the initial chapter, the editor provides an overview, introduces the four countries selected, and defines the evaluation criteria applied by all contributing authors. The final two chapters address convergence and divergence among the four systems and provide recommendations for improvement and for future comparative studies. The intended audience includes mental health policymakers, program administrators and managers; teachers of graduate level courses relat

Author : Mary Widdifield
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1634132041
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Wall written by Mary Widdifield and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental illness profoundly impacts family and loved ones. These seven true stories told by nine parents were selected from interviews conducted by sisters, Mary and Elin Widdifield, and interwoven with one sisters own experiences. Told with remarkable candor, these stories offer more insight than any single story or academic analysis. Behind the Wall provides a shared voice for millions of people who advocate for a child or loved one who lives with mental illness, fosters a better understanding for society at-large, and delivers a compelling and ultimately hopeful read for anyone fascinated by the human condition. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly twenty million Americans ages eighteen and older suffer from a serious mental illness. Sixty million - about one in four adults - suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. Factor in the family members profoundly affected by a loved one's disorder and mental illness touches virtually all of us. Yet it remains a subject that is often misunderstood, rarely talked about, and frequently stigmatizing. When mental illness enters the national discussion, it typically comes in the wake of a violent tragedy, attracting temporary attention and further misunderstanding. Behind the Wall posits that while mental health professionals and policy makers provide invaluable perspectives, the true story of mental Illness can be told most accurately by the people in the trenches: the parents who watched it all unfold with their child in harrowing and heartfelt detail. Book jacket.

Author : Sue Smith
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803811285
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Cardiff and Vale Perinatal Mental Health Team January 1998 – July 2020 written by Sue Smith and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the Perinatal Mental Health Service that developed in the Cardiff & Vale area in South Wales, UK, from 1998 until the author's retirement in 2020. Childbirth poses a risk to a woman's mental health, but until quite recently there were minimal services in the UK dedicated to managing this risk. Dr Sue Smith outlines how the Cardiff community service gradually developed and expanded with no official funding – alongside a mother and baby unit which closed, was replaced by a new one which also then closed. Later, the service benefitted from an investment from the Welsh Government, who wanted all health boards in Wales to run perinatal mental health services. From 2015, the story of the Cardiff service is seen in the context of the development of these services across the whole of Wales. This story is written by the Consultant Psychiatrist in the team, and has an autobiographical tone that was not entirely planned. It also includes contributions from other professionals working alongside or within the service and, most importantly, from women who were cared for by the service.

Author : Alisa Roth
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781541646476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insane written by Alisa Roth and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to show how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. Through intimate stories of people in the system and those trying to fix it, Roth reveals the hidden forces behind this crisis and suggests how a fairer and more humane approach might look. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable.

Author : Stephen B. Seager
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425132975
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychward written by Stephen B. Seager and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting true story of an aspiring psychiatrist's year of discovery, frustration, and triumph, this shockingly candid memoir is a real-life One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Emotionally charged --Kirkus.

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Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directory of Residential Centers for Adults with Mental Illnesses written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1990 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographical listing of over 940 facilities in the United States. Information was obtained through questionnaires during 1988-89. Entries are descriptive, not evaluative. Each entry gives such information as services, clients served, and facility profile. Glossary. Indexes of conditions treated and programs offered.

Author : Allen Furr
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071815504
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness written by Allen Furr and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness explains sociology’s key contributions to our understanding of mental health, and serves as a strong counterpoint to the medical approach to the subject. Using both micro and macro-level theories, particularly social constructionism, the text shows the subjective nature of mental illness and systems of diagnosis and treatment. It also emphasizes how social conditions and relationships create life pathways toward mental health and psychological struggles, and uses the concept of "patient career" to describe how individuals interact with mental health professionals. In addition, the text explores the connections between mental health and social problems such as terrorism, substance abuse, criminal violence, suicide, and domestic violence.