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Author: Ivan Leudar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-19
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1134754299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hearing voices is equated with madness in our society but Leudar & Thomas show that this has not always been the case and that it may be a normal experience.
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contributed articles on diversity of voices against the violent attacks on September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.
Author: Ivan Leudar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-19
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1134754280
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Records of people experiencing verbal hallucinations or 'hearing voices' can be found throughout history. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity examines almost 2,800 years of these reports including Socrates, Schreber and Pierre Janet's "Marcelle", to provide a clear understanding of the experience and how it may have changed over the millenia. Through six cases of historical and contemporary voice hearers, Leudar and Thomas demonstrate how the experience has metamorphosed from being a sign of virtue to a sign of insanity, signalling such illnesses as schizophrenia or dissociation. They argue that the experience is interpreted by the voice hearer according to social categories conveyed through language, and is therefore best studied as a matter of language use. Controversially, they conclude that 'hearing voices' is an ordinary human experience which is unfortunately either mystified or pathologised. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity offers a fresh perspective on this enigmatic experience and will be of interest to students, researchers and clinicians alike.
Author: Simon McCarthy-Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1107378206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of years. Voice-hearing has been both revered and condemned, understood as a symptom of disease as well as a source of otherworldly communication. Those hearing voices have been viewed as mystics, potential psychiatric patients or simply just people with unusual experiences, and have been beatified, esteemed or accepted, as well as drugged, burnt or gassed. This book travels from voice-hearing in the ancient world through to contemporary experience, examining how power, politics, gender, medicine and religion have shaped the meaning of hearing voices. Who hears voices today, what these voices are like and their potential impact are comprehensively examined. Cutting edge neuroscience is integrated with current psychological theories to consider what may cause voices and the future of research in voice-hearing is explored.
Author: Stephen Jenkinson
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2015-03-17
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1583949739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the page and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. Die Wise is for those who will fail to live forever. Dying well, Jenkinson writes, is a right and responsibility of everyone. It is not a lifestyle option. It is a moral, political, and spiritual obligation each person owes their ancestors and their heirs. Die Wise dreams such a dream, and plots such an uprising. How we die, how we care for dying people, and how we carry our dead: this work makes our capacity for a village-mindedness, or breaks it. Table of Contents The Ordeal of a Managed Death Stealing Meaning from Dying The Tyrant Hope The Quality of Life Yes, But Not Like This The Work So Who Are the Dying to You? Dying Facing Home What Dying Asks of Us All Kids Ah, My Friend the Enemy
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Publisher:
Published: 2001-11-01
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781891843167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents A Diversity Of Voices In The Form Of Written Expression-Analysis, Emotion, Anger, Revulsion, Hope From All Over The World From Thinkers, Activities Etc. Grappling To Come To Terms With The Violence Of 9/11 And Its Aftermath. All Plead For Sanity And `Infinite Justice`.
Author: Lisa Morgan
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1634173775
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Go on the ride of your life as the hilarious Lisa Morgan talks to you about anything and everything under the sun. She teaches you life lessons that she has learned from almost everyone who are near and dear to her—her husband, her mother, her father, her grandmothers, and even her missing aunt—and she provides you with in-your-face realizations about life, love, friendship, sense of self, laughter, relationships, faith, karma, and keeping it real. She takes her own everyday experiences—some good, some not so good, and some really bad—and relates them to useful advices that we can all use one time or another in our lives. Lisa holds nothing back as she writes with a passion about things and subjects that interest her, and she isn’t afraid to show what her true opinions are on certain issues. Partnered with her witty quips and laugh-out-loud one-liners peppered throughout the pages, this book will make you smile, laugh, cry, and nod your head in agreement.
Author: Edward M. Podvoll
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2003-11-11
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1590300009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recovering Sanity is a compassionately written examination of the experience of psychosis and related mental illnesses. By presenting four in-depth profiles of illness and recovery, Dr. Edward Podvoll reveals the brilliance and chaos of the psychotic mind and demonstrates its potential for recovery outside of traditional institutional settings. Dr. Podvoll counters the conventional thinking that the millions of Americans suffering from psychosis can never fully recover. He offers a bold new approach to treatment that involves home care with a specially trained team of practitioners. Using "basic attendance," a treatment technique inspired by the author's study of Buddhist psychology, healthcare professionals can use the tools of compassion and awareness to help patients recover their underlying sanity. Originally published as The Seduction of Madness, this reissue includes new introductory material and two new appendices.
Author: Lisa Arnold
Publisher: Ambassador International
Published: 2014-12-24
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1620204061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For Sanity’s Sake is a 365-day survival guide for women experiencing moderate to severe symptoms of perimenopause. Anxiety, fuzzy-brain, fatigue, and headaches are only some of the symptoms plaguing menopausal women. With such menacing symptoms, concentration on long, drawn out Bible Studies is often impossible. Many women feel guilty and often force themselves to muddle through, gaining nothing but frustration from the experience. Each devotion is designed to help women cope spiritually and emotionally with daily hormonal fluctuations and distractions. Women struggling with severe hormonal imbalances often struggle with deciphering the right or wrong of their emotions. Even when they know the right or wrong, their extreme emotional state makes it difficult to always choose God’s way Everything women need to persevere through menopause is provided through the power of the Holy Spirit, and it is imperative that women learn how to launch a counter attack against their fleshly emotions. For Sanity’s Sake provides that added spiritual boost needed to fight and ultimately win each daily battle. Through personal experiences, experiences of other women (and men), and Bible characters, this devotional helps women come to a realization that they are not alone in their menopausal struggles and that the best years of their lives are yet to come.
Author: John Toker
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005-12
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 0595365248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Soul search your own path of independent thinking. Consider the freedom and costs that may go with it. John Toker applies his years as a psychotherapist and as a learning specialist to empower his readers through insightful observations and questions about humanity. He brings attention to social engineering and how it relates to individuality. Frank Thomas must deal with the stress from training to be a psychotherapist in psychiatric hospitals, heal from his father's death, and wake to his young nephew's life-threatening illness. He is ultimately consumed with questioning who is sane and what makes for a functional philosophy on how to lead his life. Excerpts from Conflicting Sanity "What would become of this tragedy? Would he also succumb, like those who have surrendered to life's hardships? Give up on his spirituality? Or would this be a growing experience? Could he learn from this loss and help others? Reaffirm his vigor for life?" "To reveal any self-doubts about his lonely dawning would assuage their issues with him as having all the answers, yet, he perceives, douse his credibility in kerosene. As a psychotherapist, the fuel of being vulnerable would be ablaze." Reviews "The book makes you think and gives you a deeper understanding of our psyche." -Cynthia Brian TV/Radio personality Best selling author, coauthor of NY Times Best Seller www.star-style.com " John Toker felt so passionate about his work that he put it in the form of a novel " -Chronicle Newspapers
