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3) Fever
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
High school students Damien and Pierre are from wealthy families with nothing seemingly in their lives to leave them disturbed. Yet they plan and carry out the murder of an unknown woman they have previously only spotted on the street. The police are at a loss, confused by this murder without motive. Zoé, an optician in the neighborhood, who is feeling more and more moved by this inexplicable murder, bumps into the teenage murderers by chance....
Series
Publisher
Omnigraphics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Provides basic consumer health information about the signs, symptoms, and treatment of various mental illnesses, and the special mental health concerns of children and adolescents, older adults, and other groups, along with tips for maintaining mental wellness. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
"Mental health encompasses thoughts, actions, and feelings. Mentally healthy individuals are able to cope with life's challenges,...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
Parents whose children struggle with anxiety, depression, learning disorders, and attention problems must ask tough questions. Does my child need medication? How do I get the right diagnosis? How do I find the most competent therapist? What should I expect from treatment? Finding sound answers to those questions is the first step parents need to take to help their children understand, manage, and overcome their problems.
Series
Publisher
The Global Touch Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
World's eminent researcher of love and close relationships, author of global media sensation 36 Questions That Lead To Love Arthur Aron, PhD and bestselling author-psychologist Elaine Aron, PhD whose international bestseller revolutionized how we view and identify HSPs created SENSITIVE LOVERS: A DEEPER LOOK INTO THEIR RELATIONSHIPS documentary as a sequel to original documentary Sensitive-The Untold Story, featuring Alanis Morissette. In Sensitive...
8) Asylum
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A truly unique documentary that examines the controversial ideas of psychiatrist and philospher R.D. Laing. Asylum is both an exploration of Laing's alternative theories on schizophrenia and an invaluable record of the day-to-day lives of some forgotten members of society.
Author
Language
English
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Description
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?...
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?...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a young child is traumatized? How does terror affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has treated children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, witnesses to their own parents' murders, children raised in closets and cages, the Branch Davidian children, and victims of family violence. In 'The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog,' he tells their stories of trauma and transformation....
Series
Publisher
The Moving Child Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This innovative film draws from diverse expertise in Child Development, Movement, Psychiatry, Education, Physical and Occupational Therapy, Dance Therapy, NeuroPhysiology, and Body-Mind Centering. Explores dynamic movement's importance in physical, emotional, social and mental development and shows how awareness of movement from the get-go can support healthy family bonding and positively shape how a child grows. Of interest to caregivers and parents...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A compelling and incisive book that questions the overuse of mental health terms to describe universal human emotions Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A narrative has taken hold that a mental health crisis has been building among young people....
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, New York Times bestselling author Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon-capture-is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by forces outside our control.
In...
Series
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
10 brave kids, 2 Emmy award winning journalists, 1 clinical psychologist at Columbia University and 1 determined mother take on the fear and stigma plaguing the mental health community leaving us enlightened, empowered, and equipped to either live life or lift up life with these challenging and even life threatening conditions. This film will save lives.
Author
Publisher
Wildfire
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
'Whodunnit' doesn't matter so much, not to a forensic psychiatrist. We're more interested in the 'why'. In his 26 years in the field, Richard Taylor has worked on well over a hundred murder cases, with victims and perpetrators from all walks of life. In this fascinating memoir, Taylor draws on some of the most tragic, horrific and illuminating of these cases - as well as dark secrets from his own family's past - to explore some of the questions he...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Francis argues that the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders threatens to destroy what is considered normal and that grief, sorrow, stress, disappointment, and other feelings are part of life, not a psychiatric disease.
Series
Publisher
Les Films du 3 Mars
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Every day, in a consultation room, the patients land; broken, sick and marked by life. In front of them, sits an invested person who tries, without false hope, to repair the bodies and the psyches. In this cramped room where the world and a suffering humanity parade, each one of them confides in a disarming authenticity. At night, when the doors of the resources are closed, street workers storm the city to extend their support to all those unfortunate...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For years, Charles Marsh suffered panic attacks and debilitating anxiety. As an Evangelical Christian, he was taught to trust in the power of God and His will. While his Christian community resisted therapy and personal introspection, Marsh eventually knew he needed help. To alleviate his suffering, he made the bold decision to seek medical treatment and underwent years of psychoanalysis. In this spiritual memoir, Marsh tells the story of his struggle...
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