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Author: Peter Wyden
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Robert Francis
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2019-04-22
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1532069898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 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: Peter Wyden
Publisher:
Published: 1999-06-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780517409268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis story of a father guiding his son from despair to hope is a chilling, inspiring journey through the mysterious tunnel of schizophrenia--a world once closed and forbidding, now suddenly radiating excitement as thousands of patients are, in effect, being reborn. Jeff Wyden, a bright, happy boy in childhood, began to withdraw in adolescence, and by the age of twenty-one was severely psychotic, disconnected from reality. He was schizophrenic. In the ensuing twenty-five years, Peter Wyden accompanied his son into a hell without certainties as they searched for a solution. We see them pass through the hands of more than fifty psychiatrists and countless hospitals, clinics, and halfway houses. Doctors and health-care providers help and sometimes hinder both father and son in their odyssey through hypnosis, electroshock, dozens of drug therapies, and disabling "side effects." Throughout their ordeal, the father's management of his son's managers is his daily task, self-assigned despite self-doubt. He is alternately tolerant and challenging while he observes and learns, always primed for more of Jeff's mercurial signs of new crises. Along the way we learn about the history of the treatment of schizophrenia, from barbaric stopgaps like prefrontal lobotomy to the biomedical treatments that have revolutionized psychiatry. And finally, there is the new drug Olanzapine--a godsend for Jeff, and reason for cheer. It is not a cure, but many consider it the safest, most effective treatment to date (the first of similar medications recently licensed by the Food and Drug Administration, with more on the way). The story of its development is told here for the first time. Until now, few of us have realized that two and a half million Americans, mostly young and intelligent, are schizophrenic, merely existing through the decades, separated from reason, rendered dysfunctional by the costly and little-understood disease. Fifty million people worldwide suffer from it. This compelling and enlightening book offers useful information about what can be done for them today--and the hope of more help to come.
Author: Nancy C. Andreasen
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780195167283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere, 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: Robert Francis
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2020-09-24
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1663208611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than a quarter of a century, author Robert Francis has been living with schizophrenia and its entanglements. Diagnosed at the age of twenty-four, he understands firsthand the implications. In The Essential Schizophrenia Companion, he offers insight into his life based on his personal experiences from the perspective of a patient and as a licensed clinical social worker and mental health talk-therapist. Geared toward individuals with schizophrenia, their families, and for providers who work with them, Francis offers a quick and powerful reference guide discussing all you need to know about schizophrenia. The Essential Schizophrenia Companion, the second book about this mental health issue by Francis, offers his newest insights and reflections on what it takes for a gainful recovery from schizophrenia. It is about living life with schizophrenia similarly to the rest of shared humanity. It is about gainfully living a full life in all one’s chosen life realms.
Author: Nancy L. Stackhouse
Publisher: BalboaPress
Published: 2012-11-20
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781452562971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Terrence A. Harris
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2019-05-31
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1973659921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConquering Jericho: The Biblical Guide to Crush Mental Illness is a testimony of the power of God through Jesus Christ to walk along your side mightily as He leads you through to victory over the present-day battles in our hearts and minds. We will discover that there are practical steps to take that will be beneficial spiritually, as well as spiritual decisions to make that will lead us to a restoration. The truth of the matter is that mental sicknesses and behavioral health issues are spiritual in essence, and the resources and arsenals that are needed to address these deep-rooted issues are through the love and truth of God’s Word and by the Holy Spirit of God.
Author: Nassir Ghaemi
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-06-26
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0143121332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Erin L. Hawkes
Publisher: Bridgeross Communications
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0987824449
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Author: W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 022669609X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow 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.
