Category: Mental Health Books

Book: Introducing Mental Health: A Practical Guide

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Book Title:

Introducing Mental Health: A Practical Guide.

Author(s): Caroline Kinsella and Connor Kinsella.

Year: 2015.

Edition: Second (2nd).

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

This popular and accessible introduction to mental health is written for students, mental health practitioners and non-qualified professionals.

Fully revised, this second edition is up to date with the latest knowledge on mental health conditions, good practice and the law. The authors explain key concepts in easily understandable language, accessible even to those with no prior knowledge of the subject. They detail the major mental health disorders, the issues surrounding them, and provide detailed information on:

  • Treatment and support.
  • Risk assessment and management.
  • Mental illness and the Criminal Justice System.
  • The Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act.

Featuring case studies and exercises to assist learning, this is an invaluable resource for anyone working with people who are experiencing mental illness, including students and professionals in health and social care, housing and criminal justice.

Book: Wrestling With My Thoughts: A Doctor With Severe Mental Illness Discovers Strength

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Book Title:

Wrestling With My Thoughts: A Doctor With Severe Mental Illness Discovers Strength.

Author(s): Sharon Hastings.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: IVP.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

She couldn’t believe it. There she was with her medical qualifications sitting on the floor of a mental hospital. She’d offered her life to God, wanted to serve him anywhere, but no, surely not this… Sharon Hastings is absolutely passionate about helping anyone who suffers from ‘severe and enduring mental illness’ (SEMI): schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder. She wants the church to know all about these illnesses: how they devastate ordinary people and how they need to be treated. By telling her story, warts and all, showing her own tortuous, painful journey, she equips us to come alongside loved ones, fellow church members, friends and neighbours, understanding the social and spiritual ramifications of their illnesses, including them in our activities (where appropriate) and encouraging their spiritual growth. A natural storyteller, the author draws us in. We journey with her. With wisdom, kindness and the heart of a bruised survivor, she interweaves her exceptional story with vital teaching which simply cannot be ignored by anyone within the church today.

Book: The End of Mental Illness

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Book Title:

The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders, and More.

Author(s): Daniel G. Amen.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers.

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

Synopsis:

Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment has not much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely improved, either. Meanwhile, the stigma of the “mental illness” label – damaging and devastating on its own – can often prevent sufferers from getting the help they need.

Brain specialist and bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen is on the forefront of a new movement within medicine and related disciplines that aims to change all that. In The End of Mental Illness, Dr. Amen draws on the latest findings of neuroscience to challenge an outdated psychiatric paradigm and help readers take control and improve the health of their own brain, minimising or reversing conditions that may be preventing them from living a full and emotionally healthy life.

The End of Mental Illness will help you discover:

  • Why labelling someone as having a “mental illness” is not only inaccurate but harmful.
  • Why standard treatment may not have helped you or a loved one – and why diagnosing and treating you based on your symptoms alone so often misses the true cause of those symptoms and results in poor outcomes.
  • At least 100 simple things you can do yourself to heal your brain and prevent or reverse the problems that are making you feel sad, mad, or bad.
  • How to identify your “brain type” and what you can do to optimise your particular type.
  • Where to find the kind of health provider who understands and uses the new paradigm of brain health.

Book: Working Effectively with ‘Personality Disorder’

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Book Title:

Working Effectively with ‘Personality Disorder’: Contemporary and Critical Approaches to Clinical and Organisational Practice.

Author(s): Jo Ramsden (Author & Editor), Sharon Prince (Editor), and Julia Blazdell (Editor).

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Luminate.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The history of personality disorder services is problematic to say the least. The very concept is under heavy fire, services are often expensive and ineffective, and many service users report feeling that they have been deceived, stigmatised or excluded. Yet while there are inevitably serious (and often destructive) relational challenges involved in the work, creative networks of learning do exist – professionals who are striving to provide progressive, compassionate services for and with this client group.

Working Effectively with Personality Disorder shares this knowledge, articulating an alternative way of working that acknowledges the contemporary debate around diagnosis, reveals flawed assumptions underlying current approaches, and argues for services that work more positively, more holistically and with a wider and more socially focused agenda.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Foreword by John Livesley.
  • Introduction (Jo Ramsden, Sharon Prince and Julia Blazdell).
  • PART 1: CONTEMPORARY AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONALITY DISORDER.
    • Chapter 1: Life and Labels: Some Personal Thoughts about Personality Disorder (Sue Sibbald).
    • Chapter 2: Personality Disorder: Breakdown in the Relational Field (Nick Benefield & Rex Haigh).
    • Chapter 3: The Scale of the Problem (Sarah Skett & Kimberley Barlow).
    • Chapter 4: The Politics of Personality Disorder A Critical Realist Account (David Pilgrim).
    • Chapter 5: The Importance of Personal Meaning (Sharon Prince & Sue Ellis).
    • Chapter 6: The Organisation and Its Discontents: In Search of the Fallible and Good Enough Care Enterprise (Jina Barrett).
  • PART 2: GOVERNANCE PRINCIPLES SUPPORTING SERVICES TO ENACT CONTEMPORARY AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES.
    • Chapter 7: Access to Services – Moving beyond Specialist Provision while Applying the Learning (Jo Ramsden).
    • Chapter 8: Reimagining Interventions (Alan Hirons & Ruth Sutherland).
    • Chapter 9: Service User Involvement and Co-production in Personality Disorder Services An Invitation to Transcend Re Traumatising Power Politics (Melanie Ann Ball).
    • Chapter 10: Partnership Working (David Harvey & Bernie Tuohy).
    • Chapter 11: Outcomes (Mary McMurran).
    • Chapter 12: Contained and Containing Teams (Jo Ramsden).
    • Chapter 13: Co-Produced Practice Near Learning: Developing Critically Reflective Relational Systems (Neil Gordon).

Book: Mental Disorders Audio And Text Book: Complete Understanding, Ways To Treat And Easy To Follow

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Book Title:

Mental Disorders Audio And Text Book: Complete Understanding, Ways To Treat And Easy To Follow.

Author(s): Garfield Chrismom.

Year: 2021.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Independently Published.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

There are many different mental disorders, with different presentations. They are generally characterised by a combination of abnormal thoughts, perceptions, emotions, behaviour, and relationships with others. Mental disorders include depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other psychoses, dementia, and developmental disorders including autism.

It is becoming an imperative social problem that needs our joined hands to tackle.

This audiobook is designed for mental health professionals who do not have much time to study and also for ordinary people who want to understand more about mental disorders in order to help themselves or others overcome difficulties. It comes in text & audio format so that you can listen to it while at the gym or stuck in traffic! Sections include:

  1. Introduction.
  2. Cautionary Statement for Forensic Use of DSM-5.
  3. Personality Disorders.
  4. Brief Psychotic Disorder.
  5. Schizotypal Disorder.
  6. Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
  7. Diagnostic Criteria For Autism And Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
  8. Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
  9. Communication Disorders.
  10. Specific Learning Disorder.

And SO MUCH MORE!

Book: Personality Disorders and Mental Illnesses: The Truth About Psychopaths, Sociopaths, and Narcissists

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Book Title:

Personality Disorders and Mental Illnesses: The Truth About Psychopaths, Sociopaths, and Narcissists.

Author(s): Clarence T. Rivers.

Year: 2014.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

From the ~Unleash the Power of the Mind~ collection and the award winning writer, Clarence T. Rivers, comes a masterful explanation of the mind and the various personality disorders and mental illnesses.

Topics of Discussion

  • Personality Disorders and Mental Illnesses.
  • Psychopathy Defined.
  • Crime and Psychopaths.
  • Psychopaths vs. Sociopaths.
  • Sociopath Defined.
  • The Goal of a Sociopath.
  • The Weaknesses of a Sociopath.
  • Dealing with a Sociopath.
  • Narcissism Defined.
  • The Narcissist in You.
  • The Narcissists of Today.
  • How to Deal with a Narcissist.
  • and much more!

Book: Management of Mental Disorders

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Book Title:

Management of Mental Disorders.

Author(s): Dr. Gavin Andrews, Dr. Kimberlie Dean, Dr. Margo Genderson, Dr. Caroline Hunt, Dr. Philip Mitchell, Dr. Perminder Sachdev, and Dr. Julian Trollor.

Year: 2014.

Edition: Fifth (5th).

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.

Type(s): Paperback.

Synopsis:

Management of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (MMD5) is an innovative book that provides practical guidance in recognizing and treating mental disorders. The fifth edition has been revised by experts and is a compilation of the best practices in mental health circa 2013. MMD5 outlines the steps required for proper assessment and focuses on how to implement the many effective treatments that are now available. This book also includes resource materials, such as outcome measures, worksheets, and information pamphlets for individuals with mental disorders and their families. MMD5 is designed to complement the skills of busy clinicians and for use as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students.

The design of the fifth edition – core assessment and clinical skills and sections on the internalising, externalising, psychotic, neurodevelopmental, and neurocognitive clusters of disorders – is based on papers prepared for the discussions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and the International Classification of Diseases, 11th Edition (ICD-11) working groups. These papers presume that disorders within each of these five clusters share genetic risk factors, familiarity, specific environmental risk factors, neural substrates, biomarkers, temperamental antecedents, abnormalities of cognitive or emotional processing, symptom similarity, high rates of comorbidity, course of illness, and treatment response that differ in important ways from disorders within the other four clusters. The clusters are not intended to replace existing diagnostic criteria but rather are used to facilitate the identification of possible relationships between disorders in terms of the risk and clinical factors.

The present edition is the first to make the five-cluster structure of mental disorders explicit. Management of Mental Disorders is a publication of the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD), University of New South Wales (UNSW) School of Psychiatry at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

CRUfAD has produced treatment protocols for 30 years, first for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and then with the Division of Mental Health, World Health Organisation, Geneva. Country specific versions of previous editions of the Management of Mental Disorders were produced for New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, China, and Italy.

Book: 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder Workbook

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Book Title:

8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder Workbook (8 Keys to Mental Health).

Author(s): Carolyn Costin and Gwen Schubert Grabb.

Year: 2017.

Edition: First (1st), Workbook Edition.

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder was lauded as a “brave and hopeful book” as well as “remarkably readable.” Now, the authors have returned with a companion workbook-offering all new assignments, strategies, and personal reflections to help those who suffer from an eating disorder heal their relationship to food and their bodies. Clients of Costin and Grabb consistently tell them that knowing they are both recovered is one of the most helpful aspects of their treatment. With this experience as a foundation, the authors bring together years of clinical expertise and invaluable personal testimony, from themselves and others, to the strategies in this book. Readers will get a glimpse of what it’s like to be in therapy with either Carolyn or Gwen. Filled with tried and true practical exercises, goal sheets, food journal forms, clinical anecdotes and stories, readers are guided in exploring their thoughts, feelings, and coping strategies while being encouraged to choose how they want to approach the material. This book is an important resource to anyone living with destructive or self-defeating eating behaviours.

Book: Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing

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Book Title:

Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing.

Author(s): Horatio Clare.

Year: 2021.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Chatto & Windus.

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

Synopsis:

Heavy Light is the story of a breakdown: a journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a psychiatric hospital, and onwards to release, recovery and healing.

After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act.

From hypomania in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses touch with reality, how we fall apart and how we can be healed – or not – by treatment. A story of the wonder and intensity of the manic experience, as well as its peril and strangeness, it is shot through with the love, kindness, humour and care of those who deal with someone who becomes dangerously ill.

Partly a tribute to those who looked after Horatio, from family and friends to strangers and professionals, and partly an investigation into how we understand and treat acute crises of mental health, Heavy Light’s beauty, power and compassion illuminate a fundamental part of human experience. It asks urgent questions about mental health that affect each and every one of us.

Book: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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Book Title:

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Bloomsbury Revelations).

Author(s): Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.

Year: 2013.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic.

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

Synopsis:

The collaboration of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari has been one of the most profoundly influential partnerships in contemporary thought. Anti-Oedipus is the first part of their masterpiece, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Ranging widely across the radical tradition of 20th Century thought and culture that preceded them – from Foucault, Lacan and Jung to Samuel Beckett and Henry Miller – this revolutionary analysis of the intertwining of desire, reality and capitalist society is an essential read for anyone interested in post-war continental thought.