Mental Health
91 Articles & Excerpts
Everyday Meditation
 Ordinary Magic
by John Welwood, Ph.D.
Spiritual practice and meditation are often thought of as being the province of priests, monks, and nuns-those few individuals who have returned from the preoccupations of day-to-day life. This inspiring book reveals how the simple practice of mindfulness
Betrayal of 'What's Right'
 Achilles in Vietnam
by Jonathan Shay, M.D.
Every instance of severe traumatic psychological injury is a standing challenge to the rightness of the social order. - Judith Lewis Herman. We begin in the moral world of the soldier - what his culture understands to be right - and betrayal of that moral
Mental Illness: Advocacy
by Rethink
What Is Advocacy? Advocacy is a means of supporting and helping people to speak up or act for themselves. The key aims of mental health advocacy are to empower people who use mental health services and to protect their rights as citizens by helping them
Integrating Psychology and Spirituality
 Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation
by John Welwood, Ph.D.
Can the meditative traditions of Buddhism be integrated with the practice of Western psychology? John Welwood's latest book addresses this question with new comprehensiveness and depth, building on the innovative psychospiritual approach of his six
Talking About Severe Mental Illness
by Rethink
A diagnosis of severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia, is likely to be very disturbing to the person affected and their family. It may be difficult to come to terms with what is happening and it may take some time before everyone can begin to deal
Introduction
 Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness
by Rebecca Shannonhouse
A century ago, in a genteel neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama, a child was born who would eventually embody the freewheeling spirit of the 1920s flapper. Lavish and impulsive, Zelda Fitzgerald offered an alluring mix of privilege and melodrama to comple
This Is Your Brain
 The New Feminine Brain: How Women Can Develop Their Inner Strengths, Genius, and Intuition
by Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D.
Women have a unique feminine brain. It is different from a man's brain. And it has its own styles of thought. Yet for the last fifty years women have had to fit their brains into a 'male' world.
Is It Fair To Go Ahead With This Wedding?
 Secrets, Lies, Betrayals : How the Body Holds the Secrets of a Life, and How to Unlock Them
by Maggie Scarf
It's still not clear how or why that strange misunderstanding occurred. The plan we'd made was pretty straightforward: Claudia Martinelli and I were to meet each other in the lobby of the Yale Club, which is just across the street from Grand Central
Facts about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
OCD: People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) suffer intensely from recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or rituals (compulsions), which they feel they cannot control.
Mental Illness: Talking To Doctors
by Rethink
Talking to doctors can be difficult at the best of times: Doctors are sometimes not used to people asking for explanations: there is a tradition of doctors «talking down» to patients as if they were children.
Prologue
 Where Is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back From Brain Injury
by Cathy Crimmins
Accidents divide things into the great Before and After. 'Even before his brain injury, Alan had a hard time remembering names,' I'll say. 'Since Daddy's accident, I have to work more,' I tell our daughter, Kelly.
Mind, Mood, and Medications
 The Mind/Mood Pill Book
by Robert E. Hales, M.D., Dianne Hales
Why do I feel this way? Why am I so moody? Is there anything I can do to feel better? Can anyone help? At some point in life, almost everyone asks these questions. We all experience sadness, worry, rage, self-doubt, even despair.
The Story of the Mind
by James Mark Baldwin
In the foregoing pages we have had intimations of some of the important questions which arise about the connection of mind with body. The avenues of the senses are the normal approaches to the mind through the body; and, taking advantage of this
Understanding Mental Retardation
by CDC
Mental retardation is characterized both by a significantly below-average score on a test of mental ability or intelligence and by limitations in the ability to function in areas of daily life, such as communication, self-care
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D.
Epilepsy has been professionally recognized as a distinct type of disease since the time of Hippocrates, but in earlier times, and popularly throughout later times, it was illy defined. The knowledge of the clinical symptoms has become definite
Parents with Mental Illness : Psychosocial Rehabilitation
by SAMHSA
In the past two decades, psychosocial rehabilitation (PSR) services for adults with mental illness have become an increasingly important component of comprehensive mental health services.
Maintaining Health
by R. L. Alsaker
On mental questions there is a wide divergence of opinion. At one extreme some say that all is mind, at the other, that life is entirely physical, that the mind is but a refined part of the body. Most of us recognize both body and mind, and realize
Freud Writing and Working
 Freud: Conflict and Culture: Essays on His Life, Work, and Legacy
by Michael S. Roth
The couch and the desk: twin icons of Freud's career. For almost all of his professional life, he combined clinical work with writing, bridging the scientific and the literary. It was during his therapeutic work with patients that associations were gather
The Mindset
 Mindset
by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
As a young researcher, just starting out, something happened that changed my life. I was obsessed with understanding how people cope with failures, and I decided to study it by watching how students grapple with hard problems.
Cognitive Disorders and Delirium in Cancer
by National Cancer Institute
Cognitive disorders and delirium are conditions in which the patient experiences a confused mental state and changes in behavior. People who have cognitive disorders or delirium may fall in and out of consciousness and may have problems with the following
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