Author : Daniel Dorman
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590511015
As much the story of a young doctor finding his own path in a controversial new world of anti-psychotic drugs, this is the true account of a successful therapeutic process that took place six days a week, for seven years.
Author : Lori Schiller
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2008-11-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0446549355
Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage. At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child-the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind. Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia. She began an ordeal of hospitalizations, halfway houses, relapses, more suicide attempts, and constant, withering despair. But against all odds, she survived. In this personal account, she tells how she did it, taking us not only into her own shattered world, but drawing on the words of the doctors who treated her and family members who suffered with her.
Author : Alistair McIntyre
Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1849910693
DescriptionAlistair McIntyre has written a beautifully simple moving account of the different elements that aided his recovery from schizophrenia. He starts of with a description of his illness, moves on to his medication, the roles he holds as a volunteer, student, as well as pursuing his hobby of sea angling. This book is one of real hope and a must read for all who have had there life touched by mental ill health.About the AuthorAlistair McIntyre was born in September 1964. Throughout his school education he attended 6 different schools and left at the age of fifteen in 1980. Most of his working life he was employed as a painter and decorator. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1994 and had three hospital admissions because of this mental illness. He has been married twice and lives with his wife Tracey. He has a daughter Rachel from his first marriage and a granddaughter Bethany. He is now in recovery and hoping to go back to work in mental health as a peer support worker.
Author : Miranda Portnoy
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2021-11-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781647188818
Combining a memoir, Cinder-oy-la!, with provocative essays, Making Meaning Out of Madness: A Jewish Journey offers one woman's inspirational story of returning to faith along with compelling arguments for the truth of the Hebrew Bible.
Author : Stephen Hinshaw
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250113369
Parallel to An Unquiet Mind and The Glass Castle, a deeply personal memoir calling for the destigmatization of mental illness
Author : Daniel Grogan
Publisher : Cider Mill Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1604338040
Feed the adventurer in you with Origins of a Journey, more than 120 stories of history’s most famous travellers and their finest adventures. Inside each of us lives an explorer who yearns to visit the great unknown. Feed the adventurer in you with Origins of a Journey, more than 120 stories of history’s most famous travellers and their finest adventures. These are the tales behind the history’s bravest pioneers, bringing you from the ocean’s black depths to the top of Mount Everest. Harriet Tubman ferries fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad—not once, not twice, but 19 times. Teddy Roosevelt risks life, limb, and sanity as he charts the Amazon’s River of Doubt. Buoyed by the voice of God, Joan of Arc travels to Vaucouleurs to petition Charles for a chance to fight for France. Charles Darwin notices several different finch species while touring the Galápagos Islands, fundamentally changing how we understand life. Spanning from 500 BC to today, Origins of a Journey teaches us that there is always value in an adventure, no matter how small—or doomed—it may be.
Author : Patrick Cockburn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439154716
Narrated by both Henry Cockburn and his father Patrick, this is the extraordinary story of the eight years since Henry's descent into schizophrenia- years he has spent almost entirely in hospitals- and his family's struggle to help him recover.
Author : Wendall Churchill
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Depressed persons
ISBN : 9780997329001
The emotional trauma of bipolar disorder and the effect it has on the patient.
Author : Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2001-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0767901916
An unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at one family’s experience with mental illness. “A haunting, poignant story of a son’s life with, and without, his father. A rare and moving portrait of one of life’s major struggles—the devastation created by severe mental illness.” —John Oldham, M.D., Director of New York State Psychiatric Institute In 1978, Charles Lachenmeyer was a happily married professor of sociology who lived in the New York suburbs with his wife and nine-year-old son, Nathaniel. But within a few short years, schizophrenia—a devastating mental illness with no known cure—would cost him everything: his sanity, his career, his family, even the roof over his head. Upon learning of his father’s death in 1995, Nathaniel set out to search for the truth behind his father’s haunted, solitary existence. Rich in imagery and poignant symbolism, The Outsider is a beautifully written memoir of a father’s struggle to survive with dignity, and a son’s struggle to know the father he lost to schizophrenia long before he finally lost him to death. • Recipient of the Kenneth Johnson Memorial Research Library Book Award • Winner of the 2000 Bell of Hope Award
Author : Regina O'Melveny
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316195820
Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in the Venetian medical society is threatened. Her father has left clues -- beautiful, thoughtful, sometimes torrid, and often enigmatic letters from his travels as he researches his vast encyclopedia, The Book of Diseases. After ten years of missing his kindness, insight, and guidance, Gabriella decides to set off on a quest to find him -- a daunting journey that will take her through great university cities, centers of medicine, and remote villages across Europe. Despite setbacks, wary strangers, and the menaces of the road, the young doctor bravely follows the clues to her lost father, all while taking notes on maladies and treating the ill to supplement her own work. Gorgeous and brilliantly written, and filled with details about science, medicine, food, and madness, The Book of Madness and Cures is an unforgettable debut.
