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Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine

Author: Editorial 13th July 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publisher says: “Madhouse reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe that mental…
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Andrew Scull, asylum, books, Henry Cotton, history of psychiatry, psychiatry, psychosis, Trenton State Hospital

Anxiety – The Inside Story: How Biological Psychiatry Got it Wrong

Author: Editorial 6th July 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from psychiatrist Dr. Nial McLaren: “In Anxiety–The Inside Story, the author takes a critical look at modern psychiatry’s twin notions that all mental disorders are biological in nature, but anxiety is hardly worth worrying about. By the simple process…
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anxiety, Australia, bipolar, books, depression, Niall McLaren, psychiatry

Head First: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of Mind and Body

Author: Editorial 4th July 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Alistair Santhouse. The publishers say: “What does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective – something of the mind? In this profound collection of…
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Alistair Santhouse, books, Clients & Patients, emotions, medical model, psychiatry, state of mind, subjectivity

Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective

Author: Editorial 30th June 2022 0 Comments

This book is from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for…
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books, England, history of psychiatry, psychiatry, United States

Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

Author: Editorial 22nd June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by . The publishers say: “Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine through a fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer’s Porcupines she recounts five true…
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books, counseling, counselling, Deborah Anna Luepnitz, intimacy, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Author: Editorial 10th June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Sebastian Junger. The publishers say that it is: “… a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go…
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anthropology, books, community, Culture & Society, loneliness, Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder, PTSD, Sebastian Junger, small-scale

Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics

Author: Editorial 9th June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Bernardo Kastrup. Carl Jung is a hugely important figure in the history of psychology, and in particular within the field of psychoanalysis in relation to the concept of the collective unconscious, Jungian archetypes, and…
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Bernardo Kastrup, books, Clients & Patients, Jung, metaphysics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology

The Idea of the Brain: A History

Author: Editorial 1st June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Prof. Mathew Cobb. The publishers say: “This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier…
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artificial intelligence, books, brain, consciousness, evolution, evolutionary biology, Mathew Cobb, neuroscience, Research

This Is Your Brain on Food

Author: Editorial 27th May 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “An Indispensible Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More”, this book has been written by nutritional psychiatrist Dr. Uma Naidoo. The publishers say: “Did you know that blueberries can help you cope with…
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ADHD, books, depression, diet and mental health, food, nutritional psychiatry, OCD, PTSD, Uma Naidoo

Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival Guide

Author: Editorial 26th May 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Robert Newman. The publishers say: “Are we our brains? How can you map the mind? Can brain scans read our minds? Based on Rob Newman’s live stand-up show and new BBC Radio 4 series, his…
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books, brain, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, New Approaches, reductionism, Robert Newman

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