Seeking a treatment for extreme cases of mental illness, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz invented the lobotomy, a surgical technique that destroys tissue in the frontal lobe of the brain. The procedures, widely performed in ...
Mental Illness: A Guide to Recovery gives you information, gleaned from many sources, which can help you learn to recover.
In social work, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.
This book covers the following topics: -Understanding fears, anxiety, phobias and panic attacks -Mental disorders and illness -Face your fears -Reach to the common sensation -Actions against anxiety -How to treat panic attacks -Realizing ...
This book explores mental illness and its relationships to trauma, human rights, substance abuse, and treatment. Primary sources and essays from international magazines and news sources offer a truly panoramic view.
The author evaluates critiques of the concept of mental illness and of the way its expanding boundaries now define a far wider range of mental states, experiences and activities as pathological.