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British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition (UK Edition)
by Gregorio Kohon  Synopsis A look at the theories and personalities which underpin the work of the independent grouping of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis....
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Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
by Charles Barber Publisher Comments Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed...
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Opening Skinner's Box : Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century (04 Edition)
by Lauren Slater Publisher Comments THROUGH TEN EXAMPLES of ingenious experiments by some of psychology's most innovative thinkers, Lauren Slater traces the evolution of the century's most pressing concerns--free will, authoritarianism, conformity, morality. Beginning with B. F. Skinner...
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Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital
by Alex Beam 
Powells.com Staff Pick Gracefully Insane is a captivating and entertaining biography of Boston's McLean Hospital, an asylum for the elite established in the early 19th century and still in operation today. Throughout are compelling and often humorous stories about both staff...
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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
by Pete Earley Publisher Comments Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son- in the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people...
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Madness and Civilization : a History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Large Format) (65 Edition)
by Michel Foucault
Powells.com Staff Pick When I was immersed in a sea of literary criticism a few years ago, Foucault, more than anyone else, caught my attention. Looking deeply at the roots of our behavior and our cultural attitudes, his examination of different kinds of power and control...
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The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
by Annie Murphy Paul Synopsis The first book to thoroughly explore the phenomenon of personality testing....
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Crazy : Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness (06 Edition)
by Pete Earley Publisher Comments Pete Earley had no idea. He'd been a journalist for over thirty years, and the author of several award-winning-even bestselling-nonfiction books about crime and punishment and society. Yet he'd always been on the outside looking in. He had no idea what...
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Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do about It
by Terry A Kupers Publisher Comments A passionately argued and brilliantly written wake-up call to America about the myriad ways our penal systems brutalize our entire culture. Dr. Kupers not only diagnoses the problem, he also offers a set of solutions. I hope this book will be read by all...
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Psychoanalysis & the Nuclear Threat: Clinical & Theoretical Studies
by Howard B Levine Publisher Comments Attempting to identify and explain the ways in which the threat of world destruction affects psychological development, this volume brings together the work of contributors such as Vamik Volkan, Hanna Segal, John Mack, W.W. Meissner, Henri Parens...
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The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory
by J Moussaief Masson Publisher Comments Did Freud hide the truth about child sexual abuse? Here, Masson provides a startling, provocative, and devastating examination of the development of modern psychoanalysis, and argues that Freud's own suppressed theories demand a reevaluation of the...
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A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac
by Edward Shorter Publisher Comments Edward Shorter covers the history psychiatry from the late 18th century to the present. Supporting his often provocative positions with the latest historical and scientific research, he sounds the death knell for "talking" therapies and heralds a bright...
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The Genocidal Mind
by Dennis B Klein Synopsis These are selected papers from the 32nd annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches held in 2002 at Kean University in Union, New Jersey....
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From Soul to Mind: The Emergence of Psychology, from Erasmus Darwin to William James
by Edward Reed Synopsis In a lively and original account of psychology's formative years, the late Edward S. Reed describes the attempts of 19th-century thinkers and practitioners to make psychology into a science. Setting psychological developments within the social, religious,...
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Care in the Community: Illusion or Reality?
by Julian Leff Synopsis This book explores the care of mentally ill patients--psychiatric and geriatric--in community settings. It addresses the implications for hospitals, community services and staff, and patients. It examines the central issues of patient outcomes, service...
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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
by Jack El-Hai Publisher Comments The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter...
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Comparative Mental Health: From Institutional to Community Care
by Simon Goodwin Publisher Comments This book presents a comparative analysis of mental health policy in Western Europe and North America. It also considers how and why differences have developed in the implementation of these policies. Author Simon Goodwin examines the transition from...
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Subject and Agency in Psychoanalysis: Which is to Be Master? (International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory)
by Frances M. Moran Publisher Comments Psychoanalysis works with words, words spoken by a subject who asks that the analyst listen. This is the belief that underlies Francis Moran's rewarding exploration of a central problem in psychoanalytic theory—namely, the separation of the concepts...
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Air Loom Gang the Strange & True Story
by Mike Jay Publisher Comments The amazing story of James Tilly Matthews and his visionary madness is a startling portrait of a society on the brink of the modern age. London, the 1790s: Europe has been turned upside down by the French Revolution. Plots, counterplots and conspiracies...
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Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology #02: Portraits of Pioneers V2 CL
by Gregory A Kimble Publisher Comments A major aim of the books in this series is to promote psychology's appreciation of the neglected giants in its history. The chapters document the significance of these early contributions, many of them made more than a century ago. Most of the chapters...
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