From Paralysis To Fatigue

Author : Edward Shorter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439105642
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Paralysis to Fatigue written by Edward Shorter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to put the physical symptoms of stress in their historical and cultural context. This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "total allergy syndrome" are only the most recent examples of patients complaining of ailments that express the truths about the culture in which they live.

Author : Mark D Rego
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1632994356
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontal Fatigue written by Mark D Rego and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If technology is making modern life easier, why are we suffering from more stress and mental illness? In this trailblazing book, Dr. Mark Rego, who has practiced psychiatry in the community and taught at Yale for thirty years, explores why mental illness and stress are skyrocketing alongside technology that was ostensibly created to improve our world. Using decades of experience and pioneering scientific research, Dr. Rego presents his innovative hypothesis of Frontal Fatigue, the background condition from which many of us now suffer. Frontal Fatigue exists when the unique pressures of modern life overwhelm the prefrontal cortex, the part of our brains that can make us susceptible to mental illness. Frontal Fatigue examines • why mental illness is increasing in modern times, • how the demands of our technology-centric lives place countless people at risk for mental illness and lacking in basic psychological well-being, • solutions for finding stability and peace within the noise of modern life. This astute perspective in the battle for our collective and individual peace of mind illustrates why mental illness is on the rise in these technologically advanced times and how we can act to adjust our lives in response.

Author : Jason Schnittker
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553560
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unnerved written by Jason Schnittker and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxiety is not new. Yet now more than ever, anxiety seems to define our times. Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders in the United States, exceeding mood, impulse-control, and substance-use disorders, and they are especially common among younger cohorts. More and more Americans are taking antianxiety medications. According to polling data, anxiety is experienced more frequently than other negative emotions. Why have we become so anxious? In Unnerved, Jason Schnittker investigates the social, cultural, medical, and scientific underpinnings of the modern state of mind. He explores how anxiety has been understood from the late nineteenth century to the present day and why it has assumed a more central position in how we think about mental health. Contrary to the claims that anxiety reflects large-scale traumas, abrupt social transitions, or technological revolutions, Schnittker argues that the ascent of anxiety has been driven by slow transformations in people, institutions, and social environments. Changes in family formation, religion, inequality, and social relationships have all primed people to be more anxious. At the same time, the scientific and medical understanding of anxiety has evolved, pushing it further to the fore. The rise in anxiety cannot be explained separately from changes in how patients, physicians, and scientists understand the disorder. Ultimately, Schnittker demonstrates that anxiety has carried the imprint of social change more acutely than have other emotions or disorders, including depression. When societies change, anxiety follows.

Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469661803
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sick and Tired written by Emily K. Abel and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Kenneth Walker
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8Z/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinical Methods written by Henry Kenneth Walker and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the techniques and analysis of clinical data. Each of the seventeen sections begins with a drawing and biographical sketch of a seminal contributor to the discipline. After an introduction and historical survey of clinical methods, the next fifteen sections are organized by body system. Each contains clinical data items from the history, physical examination, and laboratory investigations that are generally included in a comprehensive patient evaluation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : James L. Levenson, M.D.
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 1615371362
Total Pages : 1596 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Third Edition written by James L. Levenson, M.D. and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preceded by American Psychiatric Publishing textbook of psychosomatic medicine: psychiatric care of the medically ill / edited by James L. Levenson. 2nd ed. 2011.

Author : Susan Dodds
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319322400
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Picture Bioethics: Developing Democratic Policy in Contested Domains written by Susan Dodds and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the problem of how to make democratically-legitimate public policy on issues of contentious bioethical debate. It focuses on ethical contests about research and their legitimate resolution, while addressing questions of political legitimacy. How should states make public policy on issues where there is ethical disagreement, not only about appropriate outcomes, but even what values are at stake? What constitutes justified, democratic policy in such conflicted domains? Case studies from Canada and Australia demonstrate that two countries sharing historical and institutional characteristics can reach different policy responses. This book is of interest to policymakers, bioethicists, and philosophers, and will deepen our understanding of the interactions between large-scale socio-political forces and detailed policy problems in bioethics. asdf

Author : Paula Muhr
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839461766
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Photography to fMRI written by Paula Muhr and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hysteria, a mysterious disease known since antiquity, is said to have ceased to exist. Challenging this commonly held view, this is the first cross-disciplinary study to examine the current functional neuroimaging research into hysteria and compare it to the nineteenth-century image-based research into the same disorder. Paula Muhr's central argument is that, both in the nineteenth-century and the current neurobiological research on hysteria, images have enabled researchers to generate new medical insights. Through detailed case studies, Muhr traces how different images, from photography to functional brain scans, have reshaped the historically situated medical understanding of this disorder that defies the mind-body dualism.

Author : Donald Capps
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664236634
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus the Village Psychiatrist written by Donald Capps and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113485787X
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Disease written by Mark Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease throughout the past and across the globe, presenting a varied range of case studies and perspectives on the patterns, technologies and narratives of disease that can be identified in the past and that continue to influence our present. Organized thematically, chapters examine particular forms and conceptualizations of disease, covering subjects from leprosy in medieval Europe and cancer screening practices in twentieth-century USA to the ayurvedic tradition in ancient India and the pioneering studies of mental illness that took place in nineteenth-century Paris, as well as discussing the various sources and methods that can be used to understand the social and cultural contexts of disease. Chapter 24 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315543420.ch24