mental illness

A Universe Of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination

Nobel laureate in medicine Gerald Edelman and brain researcher Giulio Tononi draw on their cutting-edge research to show for the first time precisely how the brain creates conscious experience What goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to the world of conscious experience? In The Universe ...

The goal of Psychopharmacology Demystified is to take a unique, focused approach to a weighty topic – pharmacological management of mental illness. Rather than another dense tome of doses, schedules, and routes that can easily be looked up in standard nursing handbooks, the author succinctly explains difficult ideas in ways that hit home. The book uses a combination of, personal insight ...

The Yellow Wallpaper

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is about a woman who suffers from mental illness after three months of being trapped within her home staring at the same revolting yellow wall paper. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote this story to change people’s minds about the role of women in her society, illustrating how women’s lack of autonomy is detrimental to their mental, emotional, and ...

Come to Your Senses: Demystifying the Mind Body Connection

In this newly revised edition of the award-winning Come to Your Senses: Demystifying the Mind-Body Connection, Dr. Stanley Block offers his Ten-Day Plan to optimize your life — a breakthrough program that has helped people all over the world heal from post-traumatic stress syndrome, combat trauma, substance abuse, mental illness, pain, and depression.The easy-to-apply method ...

Psychopharmacology Demystified

The goal of Psychopharmacology Demystified is to take a unique, focused approach to a weighty topic – pharmacological management of mental illness. Rather than another dense tome of doses, schedules, and routes that can easily be looked up in standard nursing handbooks, the author succinctly explains difficult ideas in ways that hit home. The book uses a combination of, personal insight ...