Mental Health Books – Page 36 – Mental Health Matters

Book: How Emotions Are Made

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Book Title:

How Emotions Are Made – The Secret Life Of The Brain.

Author(s): Lisa Feldman Barrett.

Year: 2017.

Edition: First (1st); Main Market Edition.

Publisher: Macmillan.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what is really going on inside you? Most scientists would agree that emotions come from specific parts of the brain, and that we feel them whenever they are triggered by the world around us. The thrill of seeing an old friend, the sadness of a tear-jerker movie, the fear of losing someone you love – each of these sensations arises automatically and uncontrollably within us, finding expression on our faces and in our behaviour, and carrying us away with the experience.

This understanding of emotion has been around since Aristotle. But what if it is wrong? In How Your Emotions Are Made, pioneering psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett draws on the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our ideas about emotion are dramatically, even dangerously, out of date – and that we have been paying the price. Emotions do not exist objectively in nature, Barrett explains, and they are not pre-programmed in our brains and bodies; rather, they are psychological experiences that each of us constructs based on our unique personal history, physiology and environment.

This new view of emotions has serious implications: when judges issue lesser sentences for crimes of passion, when police officers fire at threatening suspects, or when doctors choose between one diagnosis and another, they are all, in some way, relying on the ancient assumption that emotions are hardwired into our brains and bodies. Revising that conception of emotion is not just good science, Barrett shows; it is vital to our wellbeing and the health of society itself.

Book: Holistic Wellness In The NewAge

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Book Title:

Holistic Wellness In The NewAge – A Comprehensive Guide To NewAge Healing Practices: Volume 01.

Author(s): Swatika Jain (Editor).

Year: 2015.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

A Comprehensive Guide To NewAge Healing Practices Tools, Techniques & Real Life Stories By Over 45 Accomplished Master Facilitators In the book “Holistic Wellness In The NewAge” we showcase various therapies in the Mind, Body & Soul domain…

This book covers the various topics of Holistic approach to wellness and the subject of energy medicine.

The publishers invited articles from accomplished healers who have been practicing various NewAge Therapies to contribute with articles supported by testimonials and personal experiences in whatever therapy they excel in..

Book: The History of Emotions

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Book Title:

The History of Emotions (Historical Approaches).

Author(s): Rob Boddice.

Year: 2017.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Manchester Unviersity Press.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions.

It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical research relating to power, practice, society and morality.

Addressing criticism from within and without the discipline of history, the book offers a rigorous defence of this new approach, demonstrating its potential centrality to historiographical practice, as well as the importance of this kind of historical work for our general understanding of the human brain and the meaning of human experience.

Book: Hallucinations

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Book Title:

Hallucinations

Author(s): Oliver Sacks.

Year: 2013.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Picador.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Have you ever seen something that was not really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?

Hallucinations do not belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. In some conditions, hallucinations can lead to religious epiphanies or even the feeling of leaving one’s own body. Humans have always sought such life-changing visions, and for thousands of years have used hallucinogenic compounds to achieve them.

In Hallucinations, with his usual elegance, curiosity, and compassion, Dr Oliver Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organisation and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all, a vital part of the human condition.

Book: Hack Your Anxiety

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Book Title:

Hack Your Anxiety – How to Make Anxiety Work for You in Life, Love, and All That You Do.

Author(s): Alicia H. Clark, PsyD.

Year: 2018.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Sourcebooks.

Type(s): Paperback and Audiobook.

Synopsis:

What if the way you are thinking about anxiety is off base? What if there is something about anxiety that can be used for you instead of against you?

In this revolutionary book, Dr. Alicia H. Clark recognises anxiety as an unsung hero in the path to success and well-being. Anxiety is a powerful motivating force that can be harnessed to create a better you, if you have got the right tools. Hack Your Anxiety provides a road map to approach anxiety in a new – and empowering – light so you can stop anxiety from stopping you.

In this book on anxiety, Clark will help you deal with:

Panic attacks;
Anxiety in your relationship;
Parenting and youth;
Work, money and successSocial support;
10 myths and misconceptions; and
And more.

Weaving together modern neuroscience, case studies, interviews, and personal anecdotes, Hack Your Anxiety demonstrates how anxiety can be reclaimed as a potent force for living our best lives.

Book: Fully Human – 3 Steps to Grow Your Emotional Fitness in Work, Leadership, and Life

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Book Title:

Fully Human – 3 Steps to Grow Your Emotional Fitness in Work, Leadership, and Life.

Author(s): Susan Packard.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Tarcherperigee.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

HGTV cofounder Susan Packard launches the next chapter in emotional intelligence (EQ), and shows you how to increase your personal satisfaction and productivity – in work and life – via her three-step path toward EQ Fitness.

Emotions can sink us, or they can power us like fuel to succeed. Many of us show up for work, and life, feeling lonely even in a room full of people, or bringing unproductive emotions into work, like anger or fear. You do not have to feel this way. Susan Packard offers an accessible new guidebook to grow your emotional fitness, and it has arrived just in time, as technology is quickly becoming our main interface for communication. No matter where you are in your career, success is an inside job. Packard lays out how to develop interdependent work relationships, and for leaders, how to build healthy company cultures.

Packard introduces us to successful people, and companies, that are rich with ‘connector’ emotions like hope, empathy and trust-building. She tackles unconventional topics, like how workaholism keeps us emotionally adolescent, and how forgiveness belongs in the workplace too. Packard shares her EQ Fit-catalysed success at HGTV and the stories of the executives she coaches in mindfulness and other emerging techniques, and she teaches an ‘inside out’ practice of self-discovery, which helps you uncover unproductive emotions, and dispel them.

The best leaders balance power and grace, and everyone can effectively use resilience – an ability to endure tough situations and make tough decisions, and vulnerability, a willingness to open up, change, and admit when we need help. She offers new tools to bring our strongest emotional selves to work each day.

Book: Ferment – A Memoir of Mental Illness, Redemption, and Winemaking in the Mosel

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Book Title:

Ferment – A Memoir of Mental Illness, Redemption, and Winemaking in the Mosel.

Author(s): Patrick Dobson.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing.

Type(s): Hardcover and Kindle.

Synopsis:

A deeply moving account of one man’s return to the German town where he first pursued a career in winemaking, and his attempt to reckon with the mental illness, alcoholism, and enduring relationships that defined the most formative chapter of his life.

After an attempted suicide by hanging – with his son in the next room – author Patrick Dobson checks into a mental hospital, clueless, reeling from bone-crushing depression and tortuous, racing thoughts. A long overdue diagnosis of manic depression offers relief but brings his confused and eventful past into question.

To make sense of his suicide attempt and deal with his past, he returns to Germany where, three decades earlier, he arrived as twenty-two-year-old – lost, drunk, and in the throes of untreated mental illness – in search of a new life and with dreams of becoming a winemaker. The sublime Mosel vineyards and the ancient city of Trier changed his life forever.

Ferment charts his days in Trier’s vineyards and cellars, and the enduring friendships that would define his life. A winemaker and his wife become like parents to him. In their son, he finds a brother, whose death years later sends Dobson into a suicidal tailspin. His friends, once apprentices like himself, become leaders in their fields: an art historian and church-restoration expert, an art- and architectural-glass craftsman, a painter and photographer, and a theologian/journalist. The relationships he builds with them become hallmarks of a life well-lived.

In Ferment, Dobson reconnects with the people who stood by him through his dissolution and eventual recovery. In these relationships, he seeks who he was and how his time in Germany changed him. He peers into his memory to understand how manic depression and alcoholism affected who he was then and how his time in Germany made him who he’s become.

Book: Facing Your Fears – A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Coping With Fear and Anxiety

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Book Title:

Facing Your Fears – A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Coping With Fear and Anxiety.

Author(s): Don Mann and Kraig Becker.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Skyhorse.

Type(s): Hardcover and Kindle.

Synopsis:

A former Navy SEAL and current motivational speaker, Don Mann specialises in helping others achieve success in every aspect of life – personal and professional – by using techniques employed by Navy SEALs.

In Facing Your Fears, Mann zeroes in on finding ways to cope with the fear and anxieties readers face in their lives, no matter what they may be. This volume includes three subsections dedicated to helping the reader cope with his or her doubts and worries:

Identifying Your Fears;
Embracing the Fear; and
Letting Go of the Fear.

Featuring practical advice, inspirational quotes, engaging stories, and interesting anecdotes, Facing Your Fears will give readers the tools they need to triumph in the face of adversity.

Book: Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting

Published on 09/18/2020 by Andrew MarshallLeave a comment

Book Title:

Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting – The Astonishing Power of Feelings.

Author(s): Lynn Grabhorn.

Year: 2003.

Edition: First (1st), 1st Trade Paper Ed Edition.

Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Argues that feelings, rather than positive thinking or intelligence, set the tone for people’s lives, and helps listeners find peace and pleasure in life by feeling rather than thinking.