mental health

Using details from his father's life, clinical psychologist Stephen Hinshaw explores the ways in which the mental health community can help debunk the many stigmas surrounding diagnosis, hospitalizations, and periods of highs and lows in patients.

Michael Pollan provides an investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs and discusses his own life-changing psychedelic experiences.

". . . [A] memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery"--Amazon.com.

An autobiography of Edward M. Hallowell who discusses the experiences that lead him to become a psychiatrist in the mental health profession.

"...Terian Koscik shares her experiences of living with anxiety, and how going to a therapist taught her one of the most important things she could ever learn: there really is no "right" way to feel"--Cover page [4].

Daphne Merkin delves into what it feels like to suffer from a lifetime's worth of clinical depression, beginning in her childhood and stetching into the present, where Merkin lives a high-functioning life.

Keggie Carew attempts to piece together the life of her unorthodox father, Tom Carew, who was a member of the Jedburghs--an elite special operations unit that was the first collaboration between the American and British intelligence agencies during World War II--as dementia begins to take hold of him and talks about how he influenced her own life.

A memoir of a woman who was diagnosed at twenty-four with the most severe form of bipolar disorder. Describes her earlier attempts to self-medicate through starvation, substance abuse, sex, and self-mutilation. Discusses how she built a life and marriage with bipolar always in the background.

"...The true, poignant story of one woman's spiritual journey as she recovers from anorexia, eases the emotional pain of her hunger through yoga and Buddhism, and finally becomes full..."--Provided by publisher.

"A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir."--Provided by publisher.