Author: Gene ToewsPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514479117
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
This is a book of poems. They're mostly on the dark side. They may educate you, inspire you, or repulse you.
Ravings of an Uncommon Mind
Author: Gene ToewsPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514479117
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
This is a book of poems. They're mostly on the dark side. They may educate you, inspire you, or repulse you.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Author: Julian JaynesPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Analytical Repertory of the Symptoms of the Mind
Author: Constantine HeringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Homeopathy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Falling Into the Fire
Author: Christine MontrossPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling Into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. We meet a young woman who habitually commits self-injury, having ingested light bulbs, a box of nails, and a steak knife, among other objects. Her repeated visits to the hospital incite the frustration of the staff, leading Montross to examine how emotion can interfere with proper care. A recent college graduate, dressed in a tunic and declaring that love emanates from everything around him, is brought to the ER by his concerned girlfriend. Is it ecstasy or psychosis? What legal ability do doctors have to hospitalize—and sometimes medicate—a patient against his will? A new mother is admitted with incessant visions of harming her child. Is she psychotic and a danger or does she suffer from obsessive thoughts? Her course of treatment—and her child’s future—depends upon whether she receives the correct diagnosis. Each case study presents its own line of inquiry, leading Montross to seek relevant psychiatric knowledge from diverse sources. A doctor of uncommon curiosity and compassion, Montross discovers lessons in medieval dancing plagues, in leading forensic and neurological research, and in moments from her own life. Beautifully written, deeply felt, Falling Into the Fire brings us inside the doctor’s mind, illuminating the grave human costs of mental illness as well as the challenges of diagnosis and treatment. Throughout, Montross confronts the larger question of psychiatry: What is to be done when a patient’s experiences cannot be accounted for, or helped, by what contemporary medicine knows about the brain? When all else fails, Montross finds, what remains is the capacity to abide, to sit with the desperate in their darkest moments. At once rigorous and meditative, Falling Into the Fire is an intimate portrait of psychiatry, allowing the reader to witness the humanity of the practice and the enduring mysteries of the mind
Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Albert BarnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology
Author: Journal of Psychological Medicine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology, Pathological
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology
Author: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Author: James Boswell