Books - mental helth
Four Domains of Mental Illness: An Alternative to the DSM-5
Four Domains of Mental Illness: An Alternative to the DSM-5
Four Domains of Mental Illness: An Alternative to the DSM-5
The evolution of mental health treatment depends on new diagnostic tools. The DSM-5 is antiquated and in many cases, does more harm than good. This book presents an authentic and valid alternative to the DSM-5, which author René J. Muller argues has resulted in many patients being incorrectly diagnosed and wrongly medicated. Dr. Muller points out where the DSM-5 is mistaken and offers a guide to diagnosis based on the psychobiology of psychiatrist Adolf Meyer and the insights of existential philosophy and psychiatry.
Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
Four Domains of Mental Illness: An Alternative to the DSM-5
Four Domains of Mental Illness: An Alternative to the DSM-5
In Pathological, former advisory editor at The Paris Review and award-winning writer Fay calls for a new conversation about mental health diagnosis, one based on rigorous transparency. With exquisite detail and a precise presentation of fact, she digs up her own life at the root to finally ask, Is a diagnosis a lifeline or a self-fulfilling prophecy?
The Body Keeps the Score
Four Domains of Mental Illness: An Alternative to the DSM-5
The Body Keeps the Score
Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring—specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies.
Brain Over Binge
The Body Is Not An Apology
The Body Keeps the Score
After completely and independently conquering a debilitating eating disorder, Kathryn Hansen wrote Brain over Binge to share her struggle—and her escape from it—with those still trapped in the compulsive binge-purge cycle. Since the book’s initial release in 2011, it has endured as an essential road map for using the power of the brain to erase harmful habits and create lasting change.
The Body Is Not An Apology
The Body Is Not An Apology
The Body Is Not An Apology
This book offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength. As we awaken to our own indoctrinated body shame, we feel inspired to awaken others and to interrupt the systems that perpetuate body shame and oppression against all bodies.
Who You Were Before Trauma
The Body Is Not An Apology
The Body Is Not An Apology
In Who You Were Before Trauma, she presents her groundbreaking method, along with positive therapeutic strategies, to therapists and patients alike. Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy (PITT) incorporates imagination work at every stage of the three-phase trauma therapy model:
* Establish safety and stabilization
* Come to terms with traumatic memories
* Integrate and reconnect with others.
