How I Conquered Schizophrenia

Author : Peter Wyden
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquering Schizophrenia written by Peter Wyden and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chilling, inspiring journey through the mysterious tunnel of schizophrenia tells the story of a father guiding his son from despair to hope. In the tradition of "Is There No Place on Earth for Me?" and "The Eden Express", this compelling and enlightening book offers hope for the one percent of the world's population affected by the disease.

Author : Nancy L. Stackhouse
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 9781452562971
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How I Conquered Schizophrenia written by Nancy L. Stackhouse and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The causes of schizophrenia are many, including extreme stress, chemical imbalance, reaction to drugs, genetic predisposition, isolation, low self-esteem, and even a damaged or weakened aura (a supposed emanation surrounding the body of a living creature viewed by mystics, spiritualists, and some practitioners of complementary medicine as the essence of the individual and allegedly discernible by people with special sensibilities). My personal onset of schizophrenia and depression at age forty-two was caused, I believe, by a combination of the above. Through the caring help of family, friends, medical doctors, healers, and my own insights and intuitions, I was able to become completely free of the symptoms of schizophrenia and all antipsychotic and antidepressant medications used to treat the illness. Most influential and important to my healing and recovery, however, was the utilization of both borrowed and original strategies that keep me healthy to this day. The sharing of these strategies, which include identifying ones gifts; relying on family members, friends, and caregivers; improving ones self-esteem; identifying ones authentic self; connecting with healers; being in gratitude; setting goals; and using positive affirmations for the purpose of recovering and maintaining positive mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health is the reason why I have written this book.

Author : Robert Francis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532069898
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Conquering Schizophrenia written by Robert Francis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Conquering Schizophrenia addresses the topic of schizophrenia like never written. Author Robert Francis offers a revelatory and breakthrough paradigm regarding the relegation and defeat of schizophrenia hither yet present in the topical annals. In his conceptualization, Francis offers both a theoretical clarity along with the necessary pragmatics. And along the way, in a seemingly effortless stream of topic and word, Francis also broaches the topics of metaphysics, philosophy, theology, literary form, and humor while all the while crafting a long overdue methodology to conquering schizophrenia. As the reader peruses the pages, Francis’s personal touch and affinity for his audience will quickly be experienced and felt. This is not only a book on conquering schizophrenia but also on the greater life experience, including overcoming all typical generalized afflictions. This truly is a book with no precedent!

Author : Nancy C. Andreasen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195167283
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brave New Brain written by Nancy C. Andreasen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, leading neuroscientist Nancy Andreasen offers a state-of-the-art look at what we know about the human brain and the human genome--and shows how these two vast branches of knowledge are coming together in a boldly ambitious effort to conquer mental illness. Andreasen gives us an engaging and readable description of how it all works---from billions of neurons, to the tiny thalamus, to the moral monitor in our prefrontal cortex. She shows the progress made in mapping the human genome, whose 30,000 to 40,000 genes are almost all active in the brain. We read gripping stories of the people who develop mental illness, the friends and relatives who share their suffering, the physicians who treat them, and the scientists who study them so that better treatments can be found. Four major disorders are covered--schizophrenia, manic depression, anxiety disorders, and dementia--revealing what causes them and how they affect the mind and brain. Finally, the book shows how the powerful tools of genetics and neuroscience will be combined during the next decades to build healthier brains and minds. By revealing how combining genome mapping with brain mapping can unlock the mysteries of mental illness, Andreasen offers a remarkably fresh perspective on these devastating diseases.

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 : John Modrow
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469793725
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Become a Schizophrenic written by John Modrow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-02-25 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: demonstrates the physical, psychological, and social harm resulting from the label schizophrenic and the continuous need to reexamine the underpinnings and attitudes of psychiatry. Booklist Of all the books written about schizophrenianone is more comprehensive, accurate, thorough, and clearer in style and statement than John Modrows classic How to Become a Schizophrenic. Modrow, who is a recovered schizophrenic and is, perhaps, the unrecognized and unappreciated worlds foremost authority on this disorder, has performed a truly invaluable service and has made the major contribution to our understanding of the causes and cures of this pseudodisease. Robert A Baker, Ph.D., former chairman of the Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky; author of They Call It Hypnosis, Hidden Memories: Voices and Visions from Within and Mind Games: Are We Obsessed with Therapy? One of the best things Ive read on the subjectI am struck by the richness of the ideas and the research and the soundness of the conclusions. Peter Breggin, M.D., founder and director of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology; author of Toxic Psychiatry and Talking Back to Prozac a very important contribution to the field. Theodore Lidz, M.D., former chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University; author of The Origin and Treatment of Schizophrenic Disorders and Schizophrenia and the Family well researched and easily readable (a difficult combination to achieve)! Judi Chamberlin, author of On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System meticulously challenges all the major research that claims that schizophrenia is a biological disorder. Ty C. Colbert, Ph.D., author of Broken Brains or Wounded Hearts: What Causes Mental Illness Before reading the book, I was largely convinced that schizophrenia was primarily a brain disease. Modrow has forced me to take a second look, however, and reconsider the psychological causes of the condition. The Vancouver Sun it is ennobling that despite bad and discouraging treatment he was able to understand himself and others, and share that acquired knowledge in an accurate and helpful way. Bertram P. Karon, PhD., professor of clinical psychology, Michigan State University; author of Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia gives clear proof that theres real hope. Truly a remarkable book! Alan Caruba, Bookviews

Author : W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022669609X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Traveler written by W. J. T. Mitchell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a parent make sense of a child’s severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry? W. J. T. Mitchell’s memoir tells the story—at once representative and unique—of one family’s encounter with mental illness and bears witness to the life of the talented young man who was his son. Gabriel Mitchell was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age twenty-one and died by suicide eighteen years later. He left behind a remarkable archive of creative work and a father determined to honor his son’s attempts to conquer his own illness. Before his death, Gabe had been working on a film that would show madness from inside and out, as media stereotype and spectacle, symptom and stigma, malady and minority status, disability and gateway to insight. He was convinced that madness is an extreme form of subjective experience that we all endure at some point in our lives, whether in moments of ecstasy or melancholy, or in the enduring trauma of a broken heart. Gabe’s declared ambition was to transform schizophrenia from a death sentence to a learning experience, and madness from a curse to a critical perspective. Shot through with love and pain, Mental Traveler shows how Gabe drew his father into his quest for enlightenment within madness. It is a book that will touch anyone struggling to cope with mental illness, and especially for parents and caregivers of those caught in its grasp.

Author : Prof. T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520964942
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Most Troubling Madness written by Prof. T.M. Luhrmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia—long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness—are low in some countries and higher in others? And why do migrants to Western countries find that they are at higher risk for this disease after they arrive? T. M. Luhrmann and Jocelyn Marrow argue that the root causes of schizophrenia are not only biological, but also sociocultural. This book gives an intimate, personal account of those living with serious psychotic disorder in the United States, India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. It introduces the notion that social defeat—the physical or symbolic defeat of one person by another—is a core mechanism in the increased risk for psychotic illness. Furthermore, “care-as-usual” treatment as it occurs in the United States actually increases the likelihood of social defeat, while “care-as-usual” treatment in a country like India diminishes it.

Author : Williejay Strong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781072029380
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Beat Schizophrenia And/or Overcome Deep Depression written by Williejay Strong and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I beat schizophrenia so bad that people are shocked that I have the illness. My suggestions for managing it will work for most people. I speak in a language that everyone can understand especially for schizophrenic people. When I went thru recovery I wrote down all the things I did to recover that worked. Counselors, doctors ... do not understand how to deal with the way schizophrenic people think because they did not have the illness. Well that is why my solutions in pamphlet or ... would put counselors, doctors and schizophrenic patients on the levels they need to be on.Also I went thru about 17 steps (professional) to become happy (overcome deep depression). Being happy is not easy, it is actually hard work. Most (99%) people are not happy because they are not willing to sacrifice all the things that are wrong in their lives to do right. Like jobs .... That is why people do not get right or happy till after retirement, they do not need their jobs, after divorces (the quit the other person) .... From the steps I saw I was in deep depression, very deep. In fact I was probably one step from the lowest or had one foot in it. Each step makes sense. Each step is real and very helpful. But I would not had learned them unless I recorded "everything" and went thru what I went thru.Contact me at [email protected] for any reason or call 205 395 3550.

Author : Erin L. Hawkes
Publisher : Bridgeross Communications
ISBN 13 : 0987824449
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Quietness Came written by Erin L. Hawkes and published by Bridgeross Communications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an introduction by Dr. Richard O'Reilly"--Cover.