2008 26.09.08 - Psych Central

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Serious Problems in Psychotherapy Require Serious Medicine

As a patient in psychotherapy, do you wonder whether the work you and your therapist are doing will succeed and produce lasting results? You may like, even admire, your psychotherapist, but how do you know ... Read more... »

Alexander Technique May Benefit Back Pain Sufferers

Back pain is one of the most frequent disabling conditions in Western societies. The management of patients varies considerably within and between countries, and not many treatments work in the long term. The Alexander Technique ... Read more... »

Teaching Manners Breeds Empathy in Children

"I don't teach my children manners," said my friend Sylvia. "I just teach them to treat people like they want to be treated." "Mmmm. Interesting concept," thought I. I asked what she meant. "Well, ... Read more... »

She’s So Shy

MJ's mother is worried. "She's so shy. Whenever we get together with people, I mean even one or two people, she hangs behind me. I don’t know how to encourage her." MJ is four ... Read more... »

Getting to Commitment

Getting to Commitment: Overcoming the 8 Greatest Obstacles to Lasting Connection (And Finding the Courage to Love) From Amazon.com: Do your relationships always crash? Do your married friends wonder what's wrong? "They write sitcoms about ... Read more... »

Find the Love of Your Life!

This book offers a step-by-step guide to finding a great love relationship, the book is based on strategies the author used to find her husband, plus other real-life strategies. "I met Dave, just three weeks ... Read more... »

The Center Cannot Hold

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness A moving, telling memoir of Elyn Sak's profound battle with schizophrenia. It is an inspiring journey for family members or for anyone suffering from a schizophrenia-related disorder. Saks ... Read more... »

The Anorexia Workbook

The Anorexia Workbook: How to Accept Yourself, Heal Your Suffering, and Reclaim Your Life Despite ever-widening media attention and public awareness of the problem, American women continue to suffer from anorexia nervosa in greater numbers than ... Read more... »

Perfect: Anorexia & Me

Emily Halban developed anorexia in her final year of high school. She went on to college at an Ivy League school where her disease took on a powerful dimension. By her final year she was ... Read more... »

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

In this classic from Marya Hornbacher, she tells the story of dealing with her anorexia and bulimia over a course of many years, including the multiple hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family. By ... Read more... »

The Cyclothymia Workbook

The Cyclothymia Workbook: Learn How To Manage Your Mood Swings & Lead A Balanced Life Cyclothymia is a mood disorder characterized by cycling periods of hypomania-unusual emotional highs-and periods of mild to moderate depression. The condition ... Read more... »

Invisible Driving

Invisible Driving is a memoir of Manic Depression that takes readers inside the terrors, thrills, and triumphs of coming to terms with this debilitating and misunderstood mental illness. The manic narrator's voice vividly recreates the ... Read more... »

Madness: A Bipolar Life

Bipolar disorder and literary genius are often linked, the disorder considered a brilliant madness that produces great writers. Famous examples are Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and Kay Redfield Jamison, who wrote the book Touched by ... Read more... »

The Bipolar Advantage

The Bipolar Advantage is a revelation. It is one man's journey through the darkness and light of the bipolar condition to a place of spiritual joy, functionality and excellence that holds lessons for everyone with ... Read more... »

Parenting Children With ADHD

Parenting Children With ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach Kids with ADHD need to be loved and shown how to become successful adults. Unfortunately, their lack of attention and restlessness often get in the way. ... Read more... »

Men will always be mad, and those that think they can cure them are the maddest of them all.
-- Voltaire

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