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Critical Suicidology: Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century

Author: Editorial 12th October 2022 0 Comments

This book has been co-authored by Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, and Jonathan Morris. The publishers say: “In Critical Suicidology, a team of international scholars, practitioners, and people directly affected by suicide argue that the field of suicidology has…
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biomedical model, books, Ian Marsh, Jennifer White, Jonathan Morris, Michael J. Kral, Research, suicide, suicide prevention, suicidology

On Madness: Understanding the Psychotic Mind

Author: Editorial 10th October 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Richard G.T. Gipps. The publishers say: “Can we reach the psychotic subject in their delusion? Psychopathological theorists often try to find a way to characterise this subject’s inner predicament so that their opaque utterances and actions will…
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books, delusions, madness, philosophy, psychiatry, psychopathology, psychosis, rationality, Richard Gipps

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture

Author: Editorial 16th September 2022 0 Comments

This book has been co-written by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté. The publishers say: “Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on a seemingly unstoppable rise. Nearly 70% of Americans are now on prescription drugs….
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authenticity, books, Culture & Society, Daniel Maté, Gabor Maté, normality, trauma

Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research

Author: Editorial 15th September 2022 0 Comments

“… presents a critical examination of the development of user involvement within research, and investigates the issues currently preventing a productive integration of Mad knowledges within research and practice. Drawing on social, linguistic and critical theories, it proposes the conditions…
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books, Diana Susan Rose, Mad epistemologies, Patient and Public Involvement in research, Research, user-led research

Words As Eggs: Psyche in Language and Clinic

Author: Editorial 19th August 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Russell A. Lockhart. The publishers say: “Quietly passionate and urgently intent, this book belongs to the very best tradition of depth psychology. It appeals first of all to the intelligently psychological reader who wants new modes of…
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books, counseling, counselling, depth psychology, psychology, Russell A. Lockhart, Talking Therapies

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

Author: Editorial 18th August 2022 0 Comments

This book (with relevance to the psychiatry’s prescribing of psychotropic drugs on a massive scale) has been written by investigative journalist Melody Petersen. The publishers say: “In an odyssey into the dark side of American medicine, an award-winning journalist reveals how…
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books, marketing, Melody Petersen, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, USA

Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

Author: Editorial 17th August 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Antonio Damasio. The publishers say: “In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, ‘I think, therefore I am,’ science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently…
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Antonio Damasio, books, Descartes, emotional intelligence, emotions, neuroscience, rationality, reason

A Profession Without Reason

Author: Editorial 9th August 2022 0 Comments

“Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.”Dr. Thomas Insel (former director of the National Institute of Mental Health) This book is by psychologist Bruce E. Levine. The publishers say: “There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the…
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books, Bruce E. Levine, Culture & Society, philosophy, psychiatry, reason, Spinoza

AM I NORMAL?

Author: Editorial 28th July 2022 0 Comments

This book – subtitled “The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)” – has been written by Sarah Cheney. The publishers say: “Before the nineteenth century, the term normal was rarely ever associated with human behaviour. Normal was…
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anxiety, books, Culture & Society, history, normality, Sarah Cheney, wellbeing

A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Author: Editorial 15th July 2022 0 Comments

This book has be written by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein. The publisher says: “A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes – and what we can do about it We are living through…
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books, Bret Weinstein, diet, Education, evolutionary biology, Heather Heying, parenting styles, sleep patterns, wellbeing

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