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Head Case: Treat Yourself to Better Mental Health [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 528 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 235x179x39 mm, weight: 680 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 08-Jan-2009
  • Leidėjas: Headline Book Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 0755312821
  • ISBN-13: 9780755312825
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 528 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 235x179x39 mm, weight: 680 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 08-Jan-2009
  • Leidėjas: Headline Book Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 0755312821
  • ISBN-13: 9780755312825
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Have you ever felt blue? Do you turn to food for comfort? Are you unable to sleep despite overwhelming exhaustion? You are not alone. 154 million people globally suffer depression, which is just the tip of the mental illness iceberg. The vast majority receive no treatment, due to an immense lack of specialists, resources and understanding. But this doesn't mean you have to suffer in silence. HEAD CASE gives you the clinical expertise, without the professional jargon. Dr Pamela Connolly offers simple self-assessment tools and down-to-earth information on a wide range of mental health problems. She explains everything that can go wrong with your mind, and sets out easy steps to start feeling better straight away. HEAD CASE is the most comprehensive book of its kind, covering everything from mood, personality and sleep disorders to anxiety, trauma and addiction. It addresses the effect of childhood experiences on later life, and how to deal with issues from the past. It is a helpful, practical and positive guide that will inspire readers to make manageable steps towards a more joyful life.

Recenzijos

'Pamela Stephenson Connolly has written just about the perfect companion to the mind, mental health, mood and personality...authoritative without being technical, simple without being simplistic, this is about as useful as a book can be.' -- Stephen Fry 'Covering everything from trauma to depression, this is a helpful guide, enriched by Stephenson's expertise and lucid writing style.' -- Psychologies magazine 'Popular books about mental health have an important role to play in the task of democratizing mental health and in helping to reduce the stigma attached to so-called mental illness... Pamela Stephenson Connolly's new self-help book is a good example of the genre.' -- Times Literary Supplement

Acknowledgements viii
Introduction: `stiff upper lip' 1(4)
The basics: what is mental health, and why psychotherapy?
5(7)
The moody blues: depression, stress, bipolar disorder, mania
12(25)
A case of the jitters: anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder
37(28)
`Mind-blowing' experiences: post-traumatic stress disorder, adjustment disorder
65(14)
When your body talks for you: psychosomatic disorders, pain disorder, hypochondriasis, Munchausen's syndrome, body dysmorphic disorder
79(32)
All or nothing: eating disorders - anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa
111(15)
Typecast: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, sociopathic, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant and dependent personality disorders
126(55)
Highs and lows: substance abuse
181(13)
`Somebody stop me!': impulse control disorders - kleptomania, pyromania, gambling disorder, trichotillomania {hair-pulling} and intermittent explosive disorder
194(30)
Losing touch with reality: dissociative amnesia, identity disorder, depersonalization disorder, schizophrenia, delusional disorder, delirium, dementia
224(36)
Things to look out for in your child: attention deficit disorder, intellectual disabilities, learning disorders, motor-skills disorder, communication disorders, autism, Asperger's disorder, Rett's disorder, disruptive behaviour/oppositional defiant/feeding and eating/rumination/Tourette's/elimination/separation anxiety/stereotypic disorders, selective mutism
260(97)
When the sandman gets it wrong: sleep disorders - insomnia, hypersomnia, narcolepsy, breathing-related/circadian rhythm/sleep terror/sleepwalking disorder
357(38)
Now what? Getting the right help - how to choose a therapist, types of therapy
395(13)
Celebrating life: thirty ways to be mentally healthier, happier and more joyful
408(6)
Glossary 414(6)
References 420(85)
Index 505
Dr Pamela Connolly is famous - as Pamela Stephenson - for her starring role in Not the Nine O'Clock News and other TV and film work. She and her husband Billy Connolly live in the Highlands and New York, where Pamela works as a clinical psychologist and bestselling author.