epub |eng | 2020-02-11 | Author:Helen Fremont [Helen Fremont]

eleven Labor Day 1980 The following fall, before starting my last year of law school, I spent the Labor Day weekend with a friend on Martha’s Vineyard. We walked for ...

epub |eng | | Author:Anthony David

6 Silent Music It was an eerie place. A small, self-contained ward with half a dozen beds, bleached by artificial light. Green LED screens displayed oscillating waveforms, emitting rhythmical beeps. ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-20 | Author:Donna Jackson Nakazawa

* * * — Let’s imagine all of this in a potential real-life scenario. Imagine a woman in midlife, like Katie, whose grandmother died of early-onset Alzheimer’s. Now imagine that ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-13 | Author:Wittmann, Marc; Hurd, Philippa;

Notes 1. Karl Jaspers, Psychologie der Weltanschauungen, 3rd ed. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925), 112. 2. See, for example, the ideas of the sociologist Hartmut Rosa in Social Acceleration: A New ...

azw3 |eng | 2018-08-10 | Author:Marc Wittmann

Notes 1. Karl Jaspers, Psychologie der Weltanschauungen, 3rd ed. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925), 112. 2. See, for example, the ideas of the sociologist Hartmut Rosa in Social Acceleration: A New ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-04 | Author:Susannah Cahalan

The most concerning part, from my perspective, is that the DSM approach rendered the practice so rigid, so fixed, that the patient, the person, the human, was lost. As I ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-20 | Author:Brown, Alan; Patterson, Paul;

Determining the Pathogenic Nature of CNVs and Affected Genes The identification of CNVs as an important source of variation in the human genome and the connection between rare CNVs and ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-22 | Author:Peter Catapano

A Symbol for “Nobody” That’s Really for Everybody ELIZABETH GUFFEY I was 12 years old when I first encountered the blue wheelchair symbol. I still remember sitting in our family ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-22 | Author:Charles Whitfield

14 THE STAGES AND PROCESS OF RECOVERY Whether a person wants to heal from depression or another mental disorder (and some physical ones), taking a step back and looking at ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Marin Sardy

* * * — My twelfth year, the third year of my mother’s illness, was an in-between time in my family’s understanding of our loss, when the initial shock had ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-06 | Author:Nathan Filer [Nathan Filer]

Three o’clock on a Friday afternoon He stood outside the ward, clutching a single black bin bag containing everything he owned. The door was locked behind him. He was terrified. ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Susan Doherty

* * * — Slowly Caroline’s anxiety lessened. As she reflects now, “Mental wards are the toilets of the world, but the kind and caring nurses and psychiatrists are somehow ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-29 | Author:Russ Harris

Debrief the Exercise It’s very important to debrief experiential exercises after they’ve finished. Useful questions to ask include: What was that like for you? What happened there? What feelings showed ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Oliver Sacks

* * * — I FIRST MET Mr. K. about six months after this, in March 2002. He was a tall, amiable man, well dressed, affable, and voluble. He presented ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Anne Harrington

This hypothesis, which has been designated the “catecholamine hypothesis of affective disorders,” proposes that some, if not all, depressions are associated with an absolute or relative deficiency of catecholamines, particularly ...