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In the past 5 years, an explosion of research has linked schizophrenia to medical morbidity and mortality. Lifestyle choices, effects of medications, poor self-care, and barriers to treatment of physical illness often compromise the health of patients with schizophrenia -- increasing the severity of their psychopathology, reducing quality of life, and leading to premature death. Medical Illness and Schizophrenia reflects a growing awareness of the...

"Key concepts, major theories, and advanced trends simplified and explained Whether you're a student seeking to excel in a course or a professional nurse transitioning into psychiatric and mental health nursing, this is the book you need to quickly and easily understand the key concepts and advanced trends of this specialty. In order to make the learning process as effective as possible, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing DeMYSTiFieD includes learning...

A clinical social worker who has spent her professional life working with chronically mentally ill adults describes the problems of returning the patients to community-based care and the lack of concern by many of the umbrella organizations designed to help the mentally ill.

A history of "madness" offers readers a history of mental illness and its treatment. The book reveals radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. The author explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, witches to creative geniuses, and psychoanalysis to Prozac. The origins of current debates about how...

Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed to a psych ward, or your daughter starts hearing voices telling her to harm herselfor when you yourself hear such voices? Addressing bipolar disorder, OCD, trichillomania, self-harm, PTSD, and other...

"In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow, a young man is sucked into the mysterious, heat-filled vortex of New York City. Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor with his wife away on a visit to her mother, attempts to find relief from a Gotham heat wave, only to be accosted in the park by a down-at-the-heels stranger who accuses Leventhal of ruining his life. Unable to shake the stranger loose, Leventhal is led by his own self-doubts...

A camping trip in northern California exposes long-hidden rivalries and resentments between two old friends with tensions rising as they get farther from civilization, until the hostility erupts into a life or death struggle for survival.

Americans want to be humane toward the mentally ill, yet we have always been divided about what is best for them and for society. Now, the foremost historian of the care of the mentally ill compellingly recounts our various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma. In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, Gerald Grob begins with colonial America, when families and local communities accepted responsibility...