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| Author | : R. D. Hinshelwood |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Caregivers |
| ISBN | : 9781583918937 |
When madness is intolerable for sufferers, how do professional carers remain sane? Psychiatric institutions have always been places of fear and awe. Madness impacts on family, friends and relatives, but also those who provide a caring environment, whether in large institutions of the past, or community care in the present. This book explores the effects of the psychotic patient's suffering on carers and the culture of psychiatric services. Suffering Insanity is arranged as three essays. The first concerns staff stress in psychiatric services, exploring how the impact of madness demands a personal resilience as well as careful professional support, which may not be forthcoming. The second essay attempts a systematic review of the nature of psychosis and the intolerable psychotic experience, which the patient attempts to evade, and which the carer must confront in the course of daily work. The third essay returns to the impact of psychosis on the psychiatric services, which frequently configure in ways which can have serious and harmful effects on the provision of care. In particular, service may succumb to an unfortunate schismatic process resulting in sterile conflict, and to an assertively scientific culture, which leads to an unwitting depersonalisation of patients. Suffering Insanity makes a powerful argument for considering care in the psychiatric services as a whole system that includes staff as well as patients; all need attention and understanding in order to deliver care in as humane a way as possible. All those working in the psychiatric services, both in large and small agencies and institutions, will appreciate that closer examination of the actual psychology and interrelations of staff, as well as patients, is essential and urgent.
| Author | : Nik Ripken |
| Publisher | : B&H Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1433673088 |
An amazing story of a missionary couple's journey into the toughest places on earth is combined with stories about remarkable people of faith they encountered to challenge and inspire those curious about the sufficiency of God.
| Author | : Karen Scalf Linamen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Christian women |
| ISBN | : 9780786262526 |
Do you ever feel like a sock being tossed in the spin cycle of life? Then let Karen Linamen usher you into a place where hilarity and healing go hand in hand. Karen moves seamlessly between with and wisdom as she outlines fourteen things you can do to experience greater joy, purpose, and passion - even when life feels crazy. Discover what kind of woman could get both her lips caught in a car door, plus 23 ways to make new friends, how to forgive yourself, and the rewards of taking the one hundred smile challenge. In the process, you'll learn that it's never too late to reclaim important things you might have lost along the way - like your sanity, your sense of humor, and even your faith. Book jacket.
| Author | : David J. Vaughan |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2018-11-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1526732300 |
For over 500 years, women have suffered claims of mental decay solely on account of their gender. Frigid, insane, not quite there, a witch in sheep's clothing, labels that have cast her as the fragile species and destroyer of Man.This book reveals attitudes, ideas and responses on what was to be done with 'mad women' in Britain.Journey back into the unenlightened Middle Ages to find demonic possession, turbulent humours and the wandering womb. In the Puritan Age, when the mad were called witches and scolds ducked for their nagging. The age of Austen and a sense and sensibility created from her fragile nerves. Then descend into Victorian horrors of wrongful confinement and merciless surgeons, before arriving, just half a century past, to the Viennese couch and an obligation to talk.At the heart of her suffering lay her gynaecological make-up, driving her mad every month and at every stage of her life. Terms such as menstrual madness, puerperal insanity and 'Old Maid's Insanity' poison history's pages.An inescapable truth is now shared: that so much, if not all, was a male creation. Though not every medic was male, nor every male a fiend, misogynist thought shaped our understanding of women, set down expectations and 'corrected' the flawed.The book exposes the agonies of life for the 'second class' gender; from misdiagnosis to brutal oppression, seen as in league with the Devil or the volatile wretch. Touching no less than six centuries, it recalls how, for a woman, being labelled as mad was much less a risk, more her inevitable burden.
| Author | : Alisa Roth |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2018-04-03 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0465094201 |
An urgent exposéf the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to show how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. Through intimate stories of people in the system and those trying to fix it, Roth reveals the hidden forces behind this crisis and suggests how a fairer and more humane approach might look. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable.
| Author | : Nassir Ghaemi |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2012-06-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0143121332 |
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 | : New York (State). State Hospital Commission |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 1910 |
| Genre | : Mental illness |
| ISBN | : |
Vols. for 1895/96-1919/20 include annual reports of the various stae hospitals (1908/09-1919/20 summaries only).
| Author | : New York (State). Legislature. Senate |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 502 |
| Release | : 1910 |
| Genre | : Government publications |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Anonymous |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 750 |
| Release | : 2024-01-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3385314666 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 2020-04-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1848880987 |
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2012. What are we to make of madness in contemporary times? Are we to study its various facets, following the traditional path? Or should we turn towards a less explored territory? Madness in Plural Contexts: Crossing Borders, Linking Knowledge represents a decisive turn towards the social and cultural in contemporary understandings of madness. While it retains a focus on the diagnosis and interpretation of madness, it focuses on mad identities in literature and the media. It shows that the boundaries between the psychiatric/psychological and the social/cultural are blurred. Madness appears on stage fuelled by absinthe, across pages of novels, detective TV shows and philosophical and theoretical dialogues. It continues to be haunted by religious connotations, while becoming a subtext of social exclusion in contested cultural geographies. Madness becomes the rhythm of human life in the face of late modernity’s unquenchable thirst for perfection, success and progress.
