Archive for September, 2008

Listed by most recent articles first.

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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. ...
• The Survival Guide for Kids With ADD or ADHD
  What are ADD and ADHD? What does it mean to have ADD and ADHD? How can kids diagnosed with ADD and ADHD help themselves succeed in school, get along better at home, and form healthy, ...
• ADHD & Me
  ADHD & Me: What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table Blake Taylor’s memoir, written when he was 17, offers, for the first time, a young person’s account of what it’s like to live ...
• Driven To Distraction
  Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood From Amazon.com reviews: This clear and valuable book dispels a variety of myths about attention deficit disorder (ADD). Since both authors have ...
• Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders
  Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders: Success Stories, Strategies, and Other Good News Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem in America, affecting one in every nine people. Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders brings us ...
• The Sky Is Falling
  The Sky Is Falling: Understanding and Coping With Phobias, Panic, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders This is a terrific book to start out with if you are dealing with anxiety attacks. It's the first book I read, mainly ...
• The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook
  A helpful and practical guide to working on issues of anxiety and phobias, for anyone who's ready to take their treatment to the next level. It provides step-by-step exercises, helping you learn about relaxation, exposure ...
• Panic Attacks Workbook
  Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick Panic is an insidious trick that makes you fear simple, everyday things: driving, shopping, socializing, traveling and more. The first attack comes out of nowhere, ...
• A Relentless Hope: Surviving the Storm of Teen Depression
  Depression and related illnesses threaten to wreck the lives of many teens and their families. Suicide driven by these illnesses is one of the top killers of young people. How do teens become depressed? What ...
• We Don’t Live Under Normal Conditions
  This is a documentary film about depression, available now on DVD. There is a tendency afoot today to blame the epidemic sweep of clinical depression in the US on bad genes or screwy brain chemistry. ...
• Overcoming Depression – A Book Brief
  A very informative book about depression and manic depression. A good overview of the disease and its effects on those of us who suffer with it. Some of it is a little on the technical ...
• Defeating Depression
  Defeating Depression: Real Help for You and Those Who Love You In Defeating Depression: Real Help for You and Those Who Love You, author Howard W. Stone, Ph.D., takes a multi-faceted (cognitive, behavioral, physiological, and interpersonal) ...
• The Feeling Good Handbook
  Depression is a crippling and often misunderstood disorder in today's society. While many people advocate a purely medical model of this problem (and label it a "disease," like cancer), others find it more helpful to ...
• Upcoming Book Reviews
  Upcoming books to be reviewed on Psych Central. Type the book's title into Amazon.com for additional information about that book. Living Victoriously with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Heather Crilly Suicide Junkie S. Westwood A Relentless Hope Gary E. Nelson The Migraine ...
• When a Teacher and Child Don’t Get Along
  "I hate that school! I hate that teacher!" Nick has come home from school in a fierce temper. He drops his backpack on ...