English | 2021 | ISBN: 0593237366 | 206 pages | True EPUB | 1.54 MB
In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, theNew York Timescolumnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn't exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffering reveals.

Silvia Bonino, "Coping with Chronic Illness"
English | ISBN: 0367421526 | 2020 | 196 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This valuable book combines psychological theories of health with the lived experience of coping with chronic health conditions, focusing on the "ill person" as an actor of their own development. It draws on perspectives from developmental and health psychology alongside the author's personal experience of chronic illness.

Destigmatising mental illness? Professional politics and public education in Britain, 1870-1970 By Vicky Long
2014 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 0719085810 | PDF | 4 MB
This historical study of mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigma of mental illness. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book argues that psychiatrists, nurses and social workers generated representations of mental illness which reflected their professional aspirations, economic motivations and perceptions of the public. Sharing in the stigma of their patients, healthcare workers sought to enhance the prestige of their professions by focussing upon the ability of psychiatry to effectively treat acute cases of mental disturbance. As a consequence, healthcare workers inadvertently reinforced the stigma attached to serious and enduring mental distress. This book makes a major contribution to the history of mental healthcare, and critiques current campaigns which seek to end mental health discrimination for failing to address the political, economic and social factors which fuel discrimination. It will appeal to academics, students, healthcare practitioners and service users.Vicky Long is Senior Lecturer in the History of Health and Healthcare at Glasgow Caledonian University'It provides some unique perspectives that, if embraced by mental health professionals and campaigners today, could significantly improve the chance of destigmatizing the image of individuals with severe and long-term mental ill health.'Verusca Calabria, Nottingham Trent University, H-Disability'The strength of the book is the presentation of the plurality of discourses generated by different groups, both from within and outside the field of mental healthcare. It provides some unique perspectives that, if embraced by mental health professionals and campaigners today, could significantly improve the chance of destigmatizing the image of individuals with severe and long-term mental ill health.'Verusca Calabria, Nottingham Trent University, H-Disability, May 2017

Reporting Mental Illness in China by Guy Ramsay
English | Oct 30, 2020 | ISBN: 0367540908 | 192 pages | PDF | 17,5 MB
This book examines how Chinese-language newspapers across greater China report on severe mental illness, and why they do so in the ways they do, given that reporting in local newspapers can strongly influence how Chinese readers view the illness.

Madness and Genetic Determinism: Is Mental Illness in Our Genes? by Patrick D. Hahn
English | EPUB | 2019 | 193 Pages | ISBN : 3030218651 | 0.38 MB
The book covers important topics in the psychiatric genetics (PG) field. Many of these have been overlooked in mainstream accounts, and many contemporary PG researchers have omitted or whitewashed the eugenic and "racial hygiene" origins of the field. The author critically analyzes PG evidence in support of genetic claims which, given the lack of gene discoveries, are based mainly on the results of psychiatric twin and adoption studies. Given that the evidence in favor of genetic influences is much weaker than mainstream sources report, due to serious issues in twin and adoption research, the author points to environmental factors, including trauma, as the main causes of conditions such as schizophrenia.

A Family History of Illness Memory as Medicine by Brett L Walker
epub | 4.47 MB | English | Isbn:9780295743042 | Author: Brett L. Walker | Year: 2018