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| Author | : Bruce Cohen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : American poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781937854218 |
In these quirky meditations the anti-hero embraces chaos and finds beauty, redemption and compassion in his private, off-center world.
| Author | : Sean Frederick Forbes |
| Publisher | : 2Leaf Press |
| Total Pages | : 117 |
| Release | : 2015-07-13 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 194093902X |
PROVIDENCIA, Sean Frederick Forbes’s debut poetry collection, offers deeply personal poetry that digs beneath the surface of family history and myth. This coming of age narrative traces the experience of a gay, mixed-race narrator who confronts the traditions of his parents’ and grandparents’ birthplace: the seemingly idyllic island of Providencia, Colombia against the backdrop of his rough and lonely life in Southside Jamaica, Queens. These lyric poems open doors onto a third space for the speaker, one that does not isolate or hinder his sexual, racial, and artistic identities. Written in both free verse and traditional poetic forms, PROVIDENCIA conjures numerous voices, images, and characters to explore the struggles of self-discovery.
| Author | : Robert Whitaker |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2010-04-13 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0307452433 |
Updated with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with new research, this New York Times bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in the news. In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Interwoven with Whitaker’s groundbreaking analysis of the merits of psychiatric medications are the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. As Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, other societies have begun to alter their use of psychiatric medications and are now reporting much improved outcomes . . . so why can’t such change happen here in the United States? Why have the results from these long-term studies—all of which point to the same startling conclusion—been kept from the public? Our nation has been hit by an epidemic of disabling mental illness, and yet, as Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, the medical blueprints for curbing that epidemic have already been drawn up. Praise for Anatomy of an Epidemic “The timing of Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of an Epidemic, a comprehensive and highly readable history of psychiatry in the United States, couldn’t be better.”—Salon “Anatomy of an Epidemic offers some answers, charting controversial ground with mystery-novel pacing.”—TIME “Lucid, pointed and important, Anatomy of an Epidemic should be required reading for anyone considering extended use of psychiatric medicine. Whitaker is at the height of his powers.” —Greg Critser, author of Generation Rx
| Author | : Jason Tandon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 65 |
| Release | : 2019-08-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781625570079 |
Poetry. "Here is spiritual clarity and acute observation fused with the enigmatic, eclectic, and occasionally surreal. The poems in THE ACTUAL WORLD are deeply felt, sometimes funny, often wise, and always capable of reminding us that, as Oscar Wilde said, 'the true mystery of the world is the visible.'"--Katrina Vandenberg "Together the short lyrics of Jason Tandon's THE ACTUAL WORLD intone an aching, celebratory song of the everyday. The fabric of the poems--of rocks and tonics and bathroom tiles, frogspawn, eyelashes, pots of sage--is shot through with strands of dream and loss and imagination that illuminate and intensify everything around them. A meditative and stirring collection."--Maggie Dietz "In poem after poem, Jason Tandon discovers just how mysteriously connected unlike things can become in their transport from the literal to the figurative. These quotidian reports resonate as lyrical meditations on the ironic dramas of daily life in a poetic calculus of luminous details, hard facts, compassionate witness, and original conceits. I am particularly struck by how remarkably little 'irritable reaching' emanates from each poem. Clearly, Tandon has disciplined himself to write as he lives and live as he writes."--Chard deNiord "Jason Tandon's strong lines are at home in the senses, but also keyed to reflective solitude. His pacing is deft and catches the 'double-take' surprise of the important moments."--Sven Birkerts "If you'd like to know how to hold the wide world in your heart, this book is a beginning. Jason Tandon does not offer broad brushstrokes to explain our days, but sharply cut lyrics. I love his sensibility. I love his spirit."--Richard Jones
| Author | : Ethan Watters |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2010-01-12 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1416587195 |
“A blistering and truly original work of reporting and analysis, uncovering America’s role in homogenizing how the world defines wellness and healing” (Po Bronson). In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We are in the process of homogenizing the way the world goes mad. It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for? American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions, and the virus is us. Traveling from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka to Zanzibar to Japan, acclaimed journalist Ethan Watters witnesses firsthand how Western healers often steamroll indigenous expressions of mental health and madness and replace them with our own. In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
| Author | : Anne Champion |
| Publisher | : Black Lawrence Press, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781625578006 |
Poetry. "The poems of Anne Champion's collection THE GOOD GIRL IS ALWAYS A GHOST start loud and strong with Qiu Jin speaking about her bound feet turning 'to concrete / and every step bashes the earth to wreckage, the cracked terrain / wrinkles into canyons and craters, hidden paths for my sisters to follow.' And we do follow through eras and ages, through politics and poetics, through the killing and the healing. Persona poems give voice to forgotten women, to complicated women, and when the speaker arrives in other poems, we see how the 'I' herself is complicated by her relationship to these women. In 'Dear Marilyn Monroe': 'People tell me I'm beautiful too...I watched them watch you, Marilyn, and I'm afraid.' While the women of this book are ghosts, the poems themselves are what will continue to haunt."--Jennifer Jackson Berry "'A woman's smile / can be a muzzle.' With shocking dexterity, Anne Champion invokes the voices of her foremothers. Like Florence Nightingale, we must become 'everything.' Like Sylvia Plath, we should aspire to be 'the most horrible thing' until the good girl/bad girl binary collapses, until we are whole. Champion's poems urge us to wake up, to check our pulses, that the 'good girl' has already died--and this is the book that buries her."--Brandi George
| Author | : Kelly McGonigal |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2013-12-31 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1583335080 |
Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. For example, readers will learn: • Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep. • Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health. • Temptation and stress hijack the brain's systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower • Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control. • Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control. • Willpower failures are contagious—you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends—but you can also catch self-control from the right role models. In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help readers with goals ranging from losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work.
| Author | : Erica Wright |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781625579713 |
Poetry. "You don't need psychedelics or hypnosis. You don't need a shaman or any divine intervention. If it's a trip you're looking for, try Erica Wright's ALL THE BAYOU STORIES END WITH DROWNED. This is a book that warps the America we know into a mesmerizing weirdness. It scintillates the ordinary. Wright's lyricism, the fantastic juxtapositions in her diction and imagery all give us an alternate vision of our national moment. Equal parts surreal, sinister, and sincere, this is a place you definitely want to visit. It might just be the kind of place you need to live in."--Jaswinder Bolina
