Mental Health
103 Articles & Excerpts
Helping the Child or Adolescent Trauma Survivor
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Early intervention to help children and adolescents who have suffered trauma from violence or a disaster is critical. Parents, teachers and mental health professionals can do a great deal to help these youngsters recover.
Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Helping young people avoid or overcome emotional problems in the wake of violence or disaster is one of the most important challenges a parent, teacher, or mental health professional can face.
Your Child and Medication
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
One in ten of America's children has an emotional disturbance such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression or anxiety, that can cause unhappiness for the child and problems at home, at play, and at school.
Medications For Special Groups
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Children, the elderly, and pregnant and nursing women have special concerns and needs when taking psychotherapeutic medications. Some effects of medications on the growing body, the aging body, and the childbearing body are known, but much remains
Antianxiety Medications
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Everyone experiences anxiety at one time or another - 'butterflies in the stomach' before giving a speech or sweaty palms during a job interview are common symptoms. Other symptoms include irritability, uneasiness, jumpiness, feelings of apprehension
Antidepressant Medications
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Major depression, the kind of depression that will most likely benefit from treatment with medications, is more than just 'the blues.' It is a condition that lasts 2 weeks or more, and interferes with a person's ability to carry on daily tasks and enjoy
Antimanic Medications
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Bipolar disorder is characterized by cycling mood changes: severe highs (mania) and lows (depression). Episodes may be predominantly manic or depressive, with normal mood between episodes.
Medications For Mental Illness
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
This booklet describes medications by their generic (chemical) names and in italics by their trade names (brand names used by pharmaceutical companies). They are divided into four large categories - antipsychotic, antimanic, antidepressant
Mental Disorders: Medications
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
This booklet is designed to help mental health patients and their families understand how and why medications can be used as part of the treatment of mental health problems. It is important for you to be well informed about medications you may need.
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
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.
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.
Where He Waits
 Prozac Diary
by Lauren Slater, Ph.D.
Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater was one of the first. In this rich and beautifully written memoir, she describes what it's like to spend most of your life feeling crazy-and then to wake up one day and find yourself in the strange
Are Your Emotions True or False?
We're in a bad mood epidemic, but Julia Ross's plan provides a natural cure. Drawing on thirty years of experience, she presents breakthrough solutions to overcoming depression, anxiety, irritability, stress, and other negative emotional states
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
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
Introduction
 Within Reason : Rationality and Human Behavior
by Donald B. Calne, M.D.
When I was young, I was taught that education was important because without it we would be doomed to stupid behavior and opinions based upon prejudice. Educated people, I was told were able to make wise decisions and to distinguish between right and wrong
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.
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
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
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