Delight in Disorder

Delight in Disorder
Author: Tony E Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2014-02-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780971803886

Delight in Disorder is the story of one pastor's battle with bipolar disorder. This spiritual memoir is a house of meditations where faith and mental illness co-exist, at times fueling each other to dangerous distortion, at times feeding each other to fruitful gain. It offers hope for those often neglected and shunned. It also fosters compassion for believers towards those with troubled minds.

Hesperides

Hesperides
Author: Robert Herrick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1869
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

Selected Poems

Selected Poems
Author: Robert Herrick
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780415967518

A great survivor among the Cavalier poets, most of his poems were composed in a remote Devonshire parish. Even so, the body of his poetry is large and his religious vocationhardly shows in the almost innocent exhuberanceof his fine verse.

Letters from the Mountain

Letters from the Mountain
Author: Ben Palpant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781951872076

A series of letters from father to daughter, this elegant book is a writer's roadmap, passed down from one who has seen the climb ahead and sends back missives of encouragement, wisdom, caution, and love to any who follow. But more than a memoir of the craft itself, the book is a cartography of life itself and how to live it well, no matter your calling.

Troubled Minds

Troubled Minds
Author: Amy Simpson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-04-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830843043

Reflecting on the confusion, shame and grief brought on by her mother's schizophrenia, Amy Simpson provides a bracing look at the social and physical realities of mental illness. Reminding us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ, she explores new possibilities for the church to minister to this stigmatized group.

The Harmony of Illusions

The Harmony of Illusions
Author: Allan Young
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1997-10-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1400821932

As far back as we know, there have been individuals incapacitated by memories that have filled them with sadness and remorse, fright and horror, or a sense of irreparable loss. Only recently, however, have people tormented with such recollections been diagnosed as suffering from "post-traumatic stress disorder." Here Allan Young traces this malady, particularly as it is suffered by Vietnam veterans, to its beginnings in the emergence of ideas about the unconscious mind and to earlier manifestations of traumatic memory like shell shock or traumatic hysteria. In Young's view, PTSD is not a timeless or universal phenomenon newly discovered. Rather, it is a "harmony of illusions," a cultural product gradually put together by the practices, technologies, and narratives with which it is diagnosed, studied, and treated and by the various interests, institutions, and moral arguments mobilizing these efforts. This book is part history and part ethnography, and it includes a detailed account of everyday life in the treatment of Vietnam veterans with PTSD. To illustrate his points, Young presents a number of fascinating transcripts of the group therapy and diagnostic sessions that he observed firsthand over a period of two years. Through his comments and the transcripts themselves, the reader becomes familiar with the individual hospital personnel and clients and their struggle to make sense of life after a tragic war. One observes that everyone on the unit is heavily invested in the PTSD diagnosis: boundaries between therapist and patient are as unclear as were the distinctions between victim and victimizer in the jungles of Southeast Asia.

City of Dreadful Delight

City of Dreadful Delight
Author: Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2013-06-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 022608101X

From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction. Victorian London was a world where long-standing traditions of class and gender were challenged by a range of public spectacles, mass media scandals, new commercial spaces, and a proliferation of new sexual categories and identities. In the midst of this changing culture, women of many classes challenged the traditional privileges of elite males and asserted their presence in the public domain. An important catalyst in this conflict, argues Walkowitz, was W. T. Stead's widely read 1885 article about child prostitution. Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. The ultimate manifestation of class anxiety and gender antagonism came in 1888 with the tabloid tales of Jack the Ripper. In between, there were quotidien stories of sexual possibility and urban adventure, and Walkowitz examines them all, showing how women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolotin life that reverberated in courtrooms, learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners, and in the letters columns of the daily press. A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.

Sweet Disorder

Sweet Disorder
Author: Rose Lerner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-06-10
Genre: Divorced women
ISBN: 9781548030384

Politics can make spectacular bedfellows... Prickly newspaperman's widow Phoebe Sparks has vowed never to marry again. Unfortunately, the election in Lively St. Lemeston is hotly contested, and the little town's charter gives Phoebe the right to make her husband a voter-if she had one. The Honorable Nicholas Dymond has vowed never to get involved in his family's aristocratic politicking. But now his army career is over for good, his leg and his self-confidence both shattered in the war. Helping his little brother win an election could be just what the doctor ordered. So Nick decamps to the country, under strict orders to marry Phoebe off to somebody before the polls open. He's intrigued by the lovely widow from the moment she shuts the door in his face. Phoebe is determined not to be persuaded by the handsome earl's son, no matter how charming he is. But when disaster strikes her young sister, she is forced to consider selling her vote-and her hand-to the highest bidder.As election intrigue thickens, bringing Phoebe and Nick face to face with their own deepest desires, they must decide which vows are worth keeping, and which must be broken... Contains elections, confections, and a number of erections.

Bipolar Us

Bipolar Us
Author: Janet S Coburn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2020-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781087863962

Author Janet Coburn explores life with bipolar disorder in this collection of short, easily readable essays drawn from her popular blog. Bipolar Us includes chapters on work, family life, self-care and caregivers, society and stigma, treatments and medications, and other important issues for those who live with bipolar disorder and their families, friends, and loved ones. It emphasizes that there are many ways to cope with bipolar disorder and that bipolar disorder can be treated successfully with help and caring.

Hunger Speaks

Hunger Speaks
Author: Carolyn Jennings
Publisher: Banyan Tree Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2009-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780982201510

"Poet Carolyn Jennings offers her life story that reveals the process of healing from an eating disorder [and] celebrates what recovery can be."--Website: http://www.writingourwings.com/hs.html.