In the follow-up to their award-winning memoir Bitter Medicine, brothers Clem and Olivier Martini continue the story of their family’s journey through mental illness, dementia, caregiving, and the health care system. Olivier Martini and...
Mental health services
- Auteur:Martini, ClemSommaire:
- Auteur:Cahalan, SusannahSommaire:
In the 1970s, a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Rosenhan...
- Auteur:Powers, RonSommaire:
Ron Powers offers a searching narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. This is a thought-provoking look at a dreaded illness that has long been...
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- Auteur:Dyck, Erika, Deighton, Alex, Lafave, Hugh, Elias, John, Gerber, Gary, Dyck, Alexander, Mills, John, Mitchell, TraceySommaire:
The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of...
- Auteur:Pozzulo, JoannaSommaire:
- Auteur:Martini, ClemSommaire:
"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...
- 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:Talaga, TanyaSommaire:
In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia,...
- Auteur:Hoy, ToniSommaire:
Second Time Foster Child links parents locked into a custody relinquishment nightmare with other historically oppressed peoples. Child welfare attorneys, judges, and child welfare professionals will gain understanding of the parents’...
