The ghosts of Justin Bailey and Mark Torres lurked everywhere—at the lawn table, where veterans gossiped about the deaths, lowering their voices when staff walked by; at an emergency town hall meeting in the hospital, where a friend of ...
In these ten unsettling tales of unexpected madness master storyteller Roald Dahl explores what happens when we let go our sanity.
It has been argued, with good evidence, that his odd gestures and tics should confer on him a diagnosis of Tourette's syndrome; his obituarist, Thomas Tyrer, called him a 'convulsionary' (Porter, 1985). These strange movements were so ...
It was a doctrine that in the 1960s and into the 1970s brought Laing worldwide fame outside the ranks of his profession, where suspicion of psychiatry was steadily on the rise. But his fellow psychiatrists mostly responded by branding ...
For him and his colleague David Cooper (1967; 1968), the nuclear family is divisive and dislocating. Laing and Cooper founded the Philadelphia Association in 1965 through which about 20 therapeutic communities similar to Kingsley Hall ...
On a larger scale, both Johnson & Johnson and Abbot were found guilty of offering illegal remuneration to health care professionals and pharmacy providers in order to influence prescribing practice in ...
Jud Heathcote, who was in only his third year as head coach of Michigan State, remembered well his first, rather unpleasant, taste of March Madness. According to Heathcote, who passed away in August 2017 at age ninety, the members of ...
- A social worker's first-hand account of working with war veterans- An insight into the state of mind of soldiers exposed to the traumas of war- A raw look at the struggles confronting returning soldiers and their fight to survive beyond ...
In these ten unsettling tales of unexpected madness master storyteller Roald Dahl explores what happens when we let go our sanity.
At age twenty-four, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type I rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disorder. In Madness, in her trademark wry and utterly self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story.
In Pharmacological Products Recently Introduced in the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders (pp. 53–62), edited by W.E. Lhamoen. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association. “Kirkbride Buildings” 2008. ... Pushbutton Psychiatry.
Through medical diagnosis and explanation, it is instructive to see how everyday madness gradually changed into mental illness and psychiatric disorder. When we study madness we simultaneously study human nature.
I've lived with acute psychosis and depression for the best part of twenty years. This is the story of my journey from chaos to balance, and from limbo to meaning. Kate Richards is a trained doctor currently working in medical research.
I noticed everyone was still wearing the same shoes as everyone else – Converse All Stars Chuck Taylors. I mean those shoes were firme but I wanted to set myself apart in every way possible. I began looking through my pops shoe chest in ...
An “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the ...
An award-winning journalist and author of the best-selling Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia describes the painful impact on her life of bipolar disease, from the initial diagnosis of the ailment, to her desperate efforts to control ...
A History Petteri Pietikäinen. PART III Naming and managing madness in the Golden Age of Asylums 9 MENTAL MALADIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY DOI: 10.4324/9781315708966-12 In Naming and managing madness in the Golden Age of Asylums.
Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize. It's not every day you get to admit you're mad....
The stories told are authentic, mysterious and compelling, representing both vivid expressions of minds in turmoil and the struggle to give form and meaning to distress.
Compelling and highly influential, Michel Foucault's Madness is an indispensable work for readers who wish to understand the intellectual evolution of one of the most important social theorists of the twentieth century.