Tormented Hope

Author : Susie Quickened
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483459721
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Combat: Tormented Hope written by Susie Quickened and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hannah was a little girl, she was full of love. But she was born into a volatile family of drunks where sexual abuse, keeping secrets, and worse were the norm. In spite of all that, she felt an intense desire to survive and escape. Even though she suffered physical and emotional attacks, Hannah picked herself up every time and braced for the next outburst of family violence. She wanted nothing more than to leave her family to find love and kindness. However, she could not escape the darkness, and she'd try to kill herself in the third grade. The only thing she could see in her future was incest, beatings, and more attacks from the people she loved the most. At nine years old-at the brink of slipping into a downward spiral-she heard a voice that told her, "Write down your story. It is your inheritance." She listened to that voice. Join Hannah on her journey from her birth to age ten as she learns the difference between good and evil in the first book of Moral Combat.

Author : Brian Dillon
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tormented Hope written by Brian Dillon and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tormented Hopeis a book about mind and body, fear and hope, illness and imagination. It explores, in the stories of nine individuals, the relationship between mind and body as it is mediated by the experience, or simply the terror, of being ill. And in an intimate investigation of those nine lives, it shows how the mind can make a prison of the body, by distorting our sense of ourselves as physical beings. Healthy or unhealthy, robust or failing, ignored or obsessed over, our bodies respond daily to our shifting state of mind, whether we are aware of the process or not. This book is about an especially dramatic instance of that relationship- the mind's invention of physical disease. Through his witty, entertaining and often moving examinations of the lives of its nine subjects - James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Alice James, Glenn Gould andAndy Warhol - Brian Dillon brilliantly unravels the tortuous connections between real and imagined illness, irrational fear and rational concern, anxiety and imagination, the mind's aches and the body's ideas.

Author : Brian Dillon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9781429936132
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hypochondriacs written by Brian Dillon and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Brontë found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body was being colonized and transformed at the hands of God and doctors alike. Andy Warhol was terrified by disease and by the idea of disease. Glenn Gould claimed a friendly pat on his shoulder had destroyed his ability to play piano. And we all know someone who has trawled the Internet in solitude, seeking to pinpoint the source of his or her fantastical symptoms. The Hypochondriacs is a book about fear and hope, illness and imagination, despair and creativity. It explores, in the stories of nine individuals, the relationship between mind and body as it is mediated by the experience, or simply the terror, of being ill. And, in an intimate investigation of those lives, it shows how the mind can make a prison of the body by distorting our sense of ourselves as physical beings. Through witty, entertaining, and often moving examinations of the lives of these eminent hypochondriacs—James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol—Brian Dillon brilliantly unravels the tortuous connections between real and imagined illness, irrational fear and rational concern, the mind's aches and the body's ideas.

Author : Susie Quickened
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483459748
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Combat: Tormented Hope written by Susie Quickened and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hannah was a little girl, she was full of love. But she was born into a volatile family of drunks where sexual abuse, keeping secrets, and worse were the norm. In spite of all that, she felt an intense desire to survive and escape. Even though she suffered physical and emotional attacks, Hannah picked herself up every time and braced for the next outburst of family violence. She wanted nothing more than to leave her family to find love and kindness. However, she could not escape the darkness, and she'd try to kill herself in the third grade. The only thing she could see in her future was incest, beatings, and more attacks from the people she loved the most. At nine years old-at the brink of slipping into a downward spiral-she heard a voice that told her, "Write down your story. It is your inheritance." She listened to that voice. Join Hannah on her journey from her birth to age ten as she learns the difference between good and evil in the first book of Moral Combat.

Author : Salman Akhtar
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765701596
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inner Torment written by Salman Akhtar and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating diverse psychoanalytic traditions with his own theoretical and clinical insights, Salman Akhtar provides answers to these and other important questions in this realm. He weaves the existing conceptual schisms and technical diversity into an integrated theory and technique. In a truly original contribution, he delineates certain ubiquitous human fantasies (e.g., "someday" and "if only" fantasies of optimism and nostalgia, and fantasies of powerful psychic tethers that bind us to others) and shows how their pathological variants underlie the suffering of these patients.

Author : Dhwani Shah
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1800130732
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Analyst's Torment written by Dhwani Shah and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dhwani Shah moves the focus from using psychoanalytic theory and technique to explore the patient's mind from a safe distance. Instead, he concentrates on the analyst's feelings, subjective experiences, and histories, and how these impact on the intersubjective space between analyst and patient. His eight chapters each highlight a particular emotional state or problematic feeling and explore their impact on the analytic work, which requires emotional honesty and open reflection. This authenticity is vital for every unique encounter within the shared space of both the analyst and patient. The analyst must strive to be responsive, yet disciplined, and this requires the work of mentalization. An ability to "go there" with patients offers the best chance at helping them. The analyst's uncomfortable and disowned emotional states of mind are inevitably entangled with the therapeutic process and this has the potential to derail or facilitate progress. The chapters deal with uncomfortable themes for the analyst to face: arrogance, racism, dread and its close relation erotic dread, dissociation, shame, hopelessness, and jealousy. These bring up common ways in which analysts stop listening and struggle in the face of uncertainty and intensity; the difficulties in facing unbearable experiences with patients, such as suicidality; disruptions to being with patients in an affective and embodied way; and thwarted fantasies of being the "hero". With all of these difficult topics, Shah describes painful and tormenting experiences in a clinically meaningful way that allow growth. In this exceptional debut work, Shah demonstrates that what analysts feel, in their affects, bodies, and reveries with patients, is vital in helping them to understand and metabolise the patients' emotional experiences. This is a must-read for all practising clinicians.

Author : Herbert Moore Pim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs from an Ulster Valley written by Herbert Moore Pim and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine Roberts
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tormented Minds written by Christine Roberts and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains three plays (Ceremonial Kisses, Shading the Crime, and The Maternal Cloister) that feature a protagonist who is compelled to confront his or her particular oppressors. The critique of this oppression through theatre falls on particular social institutions and differs for each character. The main institutions under scrutiny are religion and the state. The plays are very different in style and include the use of physical theatre, naturalistic explorations of human rights abuses, and symbolic structures, puppets and poetry. The plays are supported by an analysis of their processes and themes. All have reached production and the text is supplemented by photographs of these performances.

Author : Matty Reynolds
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105931935
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Torment of Sorrow written by Matty Reynolds and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader is taken on a journey through of a romantic man's life. Through his love and his loss.

Author : Claire Weekes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593201906
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hope and Help for Your Nerves written by Claire Weekes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling step-by-step guide that will show you how to break the cycle of fear and cure your feelings of panic and anxiety. My heart beats too fast. My hands tremble and sweat. I feel like there’s a weight on my chest. My stomach churns. I have terrible headaches. I can't sleep. Sometimes I can't even leave my house.... These common symptoms of anxiety are “minor” only to the people who don't suffer from them. But to the millions they affect, these problems make the difference between a happy, healthy life and one of crippling fear and frustration. In Hope and Help for Your Nerves, Dr. Claire Weekes offers the results of years of experience treating real patients—including some who thought they'd never recover. With her simple, step-by-step guidance, you will learn how to understand and analyze your own symptoms of anxiety and find the power to conquer your fears for good.