The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct By Thomas S. Szasz
2010 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0061771228 | EPUB | 3 MB
50th Anniversary Edition With a New Preface and Two Bonus EssaysThe most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life.

English | ASIN: B0954TKJCJ | 2021 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 494 MB
A scientific detective story and a case study in the social construction of mass psychogenic illness. The authors provide dozens of examples of kindred episodes of mass hysteria throughout history, in addition to psychosomatic conditions and even the role of insects in triggering outbreaks.It is one of the most extraordinary cases in the history of science: the mating calls of insects were mistaken for a "sonic weapon" that led to a major diplomatic row. Since August 2017, the world media has been absorbed in the "attack" on diplomats from the American and Canadian Embassies in Cuba. While physicians treating victims have described it as a novel and perplexing condition that involves an array of complaints including brain damage, the authors present compelling evidence that mass psychogenic illness was the cause of "Havana Syndrome".

English | ASIN: B098VXLHMT | 2022 |MP3 | M4B | ~09:02:00 | 256 MB
Meghan O'Rourke (Author, Narrator), "The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness"

The Psychology of Cardiovascular Illness by Mark P. Blanchard
English | ISBN: 0367646382, 0367646404 | 196 pages | EPUB | 18 Mar. 2022 | 2 Mb
This important book shows those working with clinical populations how to develop an understanding of the psychology of patients with cardiovascular problems to support appropriate medical care. An understanding of the psychological underpinnings of physical illness can alter the way clinicians conceptualize their patients and the communities they serve. Based on the latest research, this book offers suggestions about how to approach cardiovascular disease holistically in multidisciplinary medical settings with competence and professionalism in mind.

Damaged: Childhood Trauma, Adult Illness, and the Need for a Health Care Revolution by Robert Maunder MD, Jonathan Hunter MD
English | ISBN: 1487528345 | 232 pages | EPUB | October 5, 2021 | 0.92 Mb
Childhood adversity that is severe enough to be harmful throughout life is one of the biggest public health issues of our time, yet health care systems struggle to even acknowledge the problem. In Damaged, Dr. Robert Maunder and Dr. Jonathan Hunter call for a radical change, arguing that the medical system needs to be not only more compassionate but more effective at recognizing that trauma impacts everybody's health, from patient to practitioner.

The Invisible Kingdom Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke | 1.2 MB
English | 336 Pages

Title: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Author: Meghan O'Rourke
Year: 2022

Miranda Dube, "LIS Interrupted: Intersections of Mental Illness and Library Work"
English | ISBN: 1634001087 | 2021 | 354 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Within the realm of library work, conversations about mental illness are too frequently pushed to the sidelines, whispered about behind office doors, or covered up for others' comfort. LIS Interrupted is a book that directly addresses those conversations in an edited collection of firsthand experiences from library workers. This book draws these conversations into public view and in doing so brings the experiences of mental illness to the forefront-offering space for comfort, connection, and community.

Mathew George, "Institutionalizing Illness Narratives: Discourses on Fever and Care from Southern India"
English | 2016 | pages: 189 | ISBN: 9811019045 | PDF | 1,7 mb
This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India. Through a study of fevers, the study provides a critical overview to medical practice itself, as it is said that the history of fevers is also the history of medicine. This association between fevers and medicine is as relevant today, as this in-depth study of fever care reveals. Acknowledging the central role of health institutions in creating and propagating notions about illness in society, the author examines fever care through a study of hospitals.

English | ASIN: B08KKK8PFG | 2020 | 13 hours and 2 minutes |MP3|M4B | 348 MB
From one of America's most celebrated psychiatrists, the book that has taught generations of healers why healing the sick is about more than just diagnosing their illness. Modern medicine treats sick patients like broken machines - figure out what is physically wrong, fix it, and send the patient on their way. But humans are not machines. When we are ill, we experience our illness: We become scared, distressed, tired, weary. Our illnesses are not just biological conditions, but human ones. It was Arthur Kleinman, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist, who saw this truth when most of his fellow doctors did not. Based on decades of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, The Illness Narratives makes a case for interpreting the illness experience of patients as a core feature of doctoring. Before Being Mortal, there was The Illness Narratives. It remains today a prescient and passionate case for bridging the gap between patient and practitioner.

The Deep Places A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by Ross Douthat | 1.25 MB
English | 8 Pages

Title: The Deep Places
Author: Ross Douthat
Year: 2021