Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. Not simply a man's life story, this is Yalom's...
Mental Health Resources
Titles that offer information and assistance on Mental Health. These resources include nonfiction and fiction titles that explore what it is like to live with Mental Health issues and provide advice, tips and insights on how to cope when dealing with your own Mental Health.
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Auteur:Yalom, Irvin D.Sommaire: - Auteur:Doucette, FredSommaire:
Fred Doucette always wanted to be a soldier. In the 1960s he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and served in Cyprus in the 1970s and 80s and Bosnia in the 1990s. When he returned home to in 1999 after his last overseas tour, he was...
- Auteur:Martini, Clem, Martini, OlivierSommaire:
In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease. For the past thirty years the Martini family has struggled to comprehend and cope with a devastating illness,...
- Auteur:Pettrey, DaniSommaire:
When a terrorist investigation leads FBI agent Declan Grey to a closed immigrant community, he turns to crisis counselor Tanner Shaw for help. Despite the tension between them, he needs the best of the best on this case. Under imminent...
- Auteur:TAMMET, DanielSommaire:
Provides a deep insight into the unique mind of Daniel Tammet who has Savant Syndrome - a rare form of Asperger's Syndrome, similar to the condition portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the movie, "Rain Man".
- Auteur:Catalan, SusannahSommaire:
2009. Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. Her medical records chronicled a month long hospital stay of which she had no memory at all. Neurologist Souhel...
- Auteur:Kardener, Sheldon H., Kardener, Monika OlofssonSommaire:
These are some of the issues addressed by the Kardeners in Breaking Free: How Chains From Childhood Keep Us From What We Want. Why do our best intentions so often go awry? What prompts people to engage in behaviors that have the...
- Auteur:Greenblatt, James M.Sommaire:
James Greenblatt, MD, a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, has been successfully treating patients with nutritional and metabolic therapies for more than twenty-five years. In this book, he provides a personalized model of...
- Auteur:Hurley, JessicaSommaire:
Most people carry around emotional baggage without realizing how it negatively affects the quality of their everyday lives. Burn This Book... and Move On with Your Life helps readers identify those issues that are dragging them down,...
- Auteur:Nagoski, Amelia, Nagoski, EmilySommaire:
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men--and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life. The gap between what it's really...
- Auteur:Abdennur, AlexanderSommaire:
In Camouflaged Aggression in Organizations, Alexander Abdennur unveils his theory of two modes of aggression in organizations: confrontational and camouflaged. Focusing on camouflaged aggression, he describes patterns of behaviour and...
- Auteur:Kulig, JudithSommaire:
What happens when health care providers meet patients whose religious views contrast with mainstream health practices? This book focuses on a unique religious group, the Low German Mennonites, to examine ways in which beliefs and...
- Auteur:Glickman, Neil S.Sommaire:
This book provides a model for adapting best practices in cognitive-behavioral therapy to consumers whose language and cognitive deficits make it difficult for them to benefit from traditional talk oriented psychotherapy. The book...
- Auteur:Richard, GhislaineSommaire:
Ce recueil présente des solutions qui peuvent influencer autant une difficulté de lâcher-prise que du surstress. En ce sens, ces prières peuvent avoir des effets thérapeutiques sur le bonheur, la santé et l'évolution spirituelle. Ce...
- Auteur:Schellenberg, Susan, Barnes, RosemarySommaire:
In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning...
- Auteur:Davis, SimonSommaire:
Community Mental Health in Canada offers a timely, critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada, past, present, and future. This new edition has been substantially revised and expanded and includes a...
- Auteur:Belliveau, George, Lea, Graham W.Sommaire:
This book is a call to action to address the transition many soldiers face when returning to civilian life. It presents an arts-based therapeutic approach to dealing with trauma, exploring the development, performance, and reception of...
- Auteur:Paquet, GillesSommaire:
In Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures, Gilles Paquet criticizes the prevailing practices of the social sciences on the basis of their inadequate concepts of knowledge, evidence and inquiry, concepts he claims have become...
- Auteur:Sergerie, Marie-AnneSommaire:
Les technologies sont devenues incontournables au quotidien et ont modifié considérablement nos habitudes de vie. Pour certaines personnes, trouver un équilibre reste un défi! À quel moment l'usage des technologies devient-il un...
- Auteur:Yelin, Hirsch Gilah, Marrelli, Nancy, Yelin, ShulamisSommaire:
Demonic to Divine: The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin is a weaving of the Montreal writer’s stories and selected diary excerpts and family photographs revealing a far-reaching creative personality who is haunted from the age of ten by...
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