psychology, pathological

Teen/young adult manual for the understanding of mental illness and recovery.

Susanne Antonetta draws on her own experience as a manic-depressive, as well as interviews with people with other neurological conditions, to explore what it means to live in the modern world while struggling with mental problems and illnesses.

Explores why the human body feels pain and how it heals itself.

A guide to psychiatric conditions, featuring a diagnostic screening questionnaire, information on a range of mental health issues, and listings of national organizations, support groups, and other sources of help.

Presents a comprehensive study that describes fifty signs that may signal possible mental illness including obsessions and cravings, anger, and more; and explains available treatments and medications.

A reference set containing 107 cross-referenced essays on topics related to psychology; each essay also includes an annotated bibliography.

Journalist Ethan Watters argues that Western concepts of mental illness, from clinical depression to anorexia and schizophrenia, have impacted cultures around the world, covering American culture's "export" of mental health treatments and classifications, and theories of the human psyche, into places such as Hong Kong, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka.