Psychiatry Books

‘[A] moving, beautifully written book about love and mental health and life’ BOB ODENKIRK‘Fiercely intelligent, humane and necessary’ NATHAN FILER, author of THE SHOCK OF THE FALL'At its heart a story about love … an astonishing new voice' ALI MILLAR,...

A compassionate, interactive guide filled with practical skills and essential information for adults who love someone with a mental illness or history of trauma. Family members and friends of adults with a mental illness often navigate difficult...

This groundbreaking book explains the 'whats' and 'how-tos' of metacognitive therapy (MCT), a cutting-edge form of cognitive-behavioral therapy with a growing empirical evidence base. MCT developer Adrian Wells shows that much psychological distress...

A self-care guide to treating mental, emotional, and neurological conditions• Explores common mental health concerns and stress-related issues—such as anxiety, depression, anger, insomnia, brain fog, and trauma—and shares remedies and practices to...

How to harness your ADHD “hunter” strengths to start your own business and prosper in the workplace• Provides organizational strategies, tips to maintain focus, and tools to set goals, build a business plan, and discover the right project to keep you...

Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism.The contemporary world is oversaturated with psychiatric programs, methods, and reforms promising to address any number of "crises" in...

This book will change how we talk about addiction and fix a broken system. Addiction isn't a conscious choice-it's a chronic illness that responds to treatment and deserves compassion. Drawing on peer-reviewed research and decades of expertise, Dr...

The FIRST MICRODOSING GUIDEBOOK & JOURNAL by an award-winning mindfulness author and teacher that supports the entire process of preparation, actively microdosing, and integration through the lens of mindfulness. This book is for those who have never...

What if psychosis is really a wake up call?Emma Goude is a twenty-something who works at the BBC. She likes to party and take drugs...until she decides to give them up...and that's when the insomnia starts. After five nights without sleep she ends up in...

"Evocative images, eloquent testimony-a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness."-Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to ProzacA tree's bare limbs against a grey sky, a young...

Katharine Campbell's father Sholto Douglas was the hero of her childhood, an unconventional senior commander in the Royal Air Force described as 'a gloriously contentious character'. Following childhood abandonment and poverty, Sholto rose through the...

This is the first publication to investigate the rise of alcohol as a medical problem within a variety of countries and political and cultural contexts.The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and...

"The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum-the sort of...

A must-read for individuals, families, and medical practitioners that opens a new door in psychiatric healthcare. Psychiatry has made great advances in the past fifty years but needs a new direction. Today's emphasis on psychiatric drugs will not stand...

Body Keeps the Score, The: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma