Sex Violence And Schizophrenia
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Sex Violence And Schizophrenia
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Author : B.W. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2002-10-15
Sex Violence And Schizophrenia written by B.W. Miller and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is entirely based off of my memories of my psychotic episodes from 1995 through 1997. It is not a book about how a schizophrenic lives; it is more so about what it is like to be schizophrenic. The reader gets right in my head to see and feel what a psychosis is actually like. No punches are pulled. No sugar coated stories here. Its not like what they show in the movies; its much stranger. I dont talk so much about my odd behavior as much as I show the reader what I am going through at the time. Most of the time I could not tell you what or if anything was odd about my behavior, but I go right into what was wrong with my thinking. The book is intense for the reader and very personal for me to share. Some parts of this book may make you laugh and cry at the same time, but the riveting climax might frighten you. There is a recovery, though. Schizophrenia is a disease that can be recovered from, as is testament in that I wrote this book in about four months, while holding a full-time, professional job. Nothing in the book is fictionalized except the names and places and that is out of respect for other peoples privacy. It is a good read for anyone who wants to understand what is going on in the head of a person suffering from psychosis.
Sex Violence And Schizophrenia
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Author : B. W. Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-10-01
Sex Violence And Schizophrenia written by B. W. Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is entirely based off of my memories of my psychotic episodes from 1995 through 1997. It is not a book about how a schizophrenic lives; it is more so about what it is like to be schizophrenic. The reader gets right in my head to see and feel what a psychosis is actually like. No punches are pulled. No sugar coated stories here. It's not like what they show in the movies; it's much stranger. I don't talk so much about my odd behavior as much as I show the reader what I am going through at the time. Most of the time I could not tell you what or if anything was odd about my behavior, but I go right into what was wrong with my thinking. The book is intense for the reader and very personal for me to share. Some parts of this book may make you laugh and cry at the same time, but the riveting climax might frighten you. There is a recovery, though. Schizophrenia is a disease that can be recovered from, as is testament in that I wrote this book in about four months, while holding a full-time, professional job. Nothing in the book is fictionalized except the names and places and that is out of respect for other people's privacy. It is a good read for anyone who wants to understand what is going on in the head of a person suffering from psychosis.
Crime And Schizophrenia
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Author : Adrian Raine
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2006
Crime And Schizophrenia written by Adrian Raine and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Medical categories.
While the link between crime and schizophrenia has been noted for almost a century, it is only recently that research has provided convincing, broad-based evidence for this association. This advance in knowledge also brings with it the troublesome danger that schizophrenia patients could be doubly-stigmatised in society: they suffer from a serious mental illness and furthermore they are potentially dangerous. This understandable fear has both lead to significant resistance in accepting that the crime -- schizophrenia relationship truly exists. While well-meaning, this resistance has resulted in three unfortunate consequences. First, by not recognising that the relationship exists, the comorbid antisocial and violent behaviour of schizophrenia patients has gone unchecked, and consequently the stigma associated with this comorbidity goes on unabated. Second, research in this area has become almost fixated on the simple establishment of a link between the two conditions, and has not moved on to more important research that could help develop new perspectives on the nature of the crime -- schizophrenia relationship in a way which will significantly benefit our understanding and treatment of both conditions. Frustratingly, we actually know surprisingly little about the crime -- schizophrenia relationship. The third and more indirect consequence is that the issue of schizophrenia-spectrum disorder in antisocial criminal populations is almost entirely ignored. Such individuals literally fall between the cracks in both the mental health system and the criminal justice system. For these reasons, it is argued that ignoring or denying the crime -- schizophrenia relationship ultimately does more harm than good. The main goal of this book is to stimulate a new generation of research on the crime -- schizophrenia relationship which could benefit not just individuals with these two conditions, but also society in general. Going beyond the fundamental issue of whether there is a relationship between crime and schizophrenia, contributors to this book both outline risk factors for crime and schizophrenia and also develop hypotheses on which factors may give rise to both conditions, and hence in part explain the comorbidity issue. Furthermore, contributors go on to outlining intervention and prevention programs for not just crime and schizophrenia, but also for both conditions simultaneously. -- From the Preface
Sex Drugs And Schizophrenia
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Author : Jonathan Harnisch
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Sex Drugs And Schizophrenia written by Jonathan Harnisch and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with Literary Collections categories.
The collected writings of Jonathan Harnisch mark a magnificent contribution to the public understanding of mental illness through a masterpiece of transgressive fiction with a heart. The general reader is finally able to see mainstream literary author Jonathan Harnisch at his best. Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia contains the works of 2014, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography and Second Alibi: The Banality of Life, in one complete streaming narrative. The monumental scale of Harnisch's achievement through adversity flourishes and can now be appreciated in this diverse, invaluable, and thought-provoking collection of fragmented fiction which will make your brain spin as Harnisch's sense of the inner machinations within the human experience spring into life through the written word. It forces one to question reality and step into another world wanting the protagonist and his alter ego to get it together and be okay. The author reveals himself through a series of alibis in the day-to-day meetings of multiple personalities, a corner of psychiatry that is hardly understood, and shedding light on the experiences of schizophrenia in a language that the non-sufferer can understand, albeit from the author who suffers himself. Not for the faint of heart, this fictionalized account of a disparate mind triumphs.
Violence In Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
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Author : Tamsin Bernice Renfree Short
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Violence In Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders written by Tamsin Bernice Renfree Short and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Schizophrenia is a rare but complex psychiatric disorder which can have adverse effects on cognition, emotion and behaviour. The relationship between schizophrenia and crime has been the subject of voluminous research over the past century, but remains the subject of clinical and academic debate. This research thesis sought to clarify the relationship between schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and criminal violence, taking into account the role of co-morbid substance use-disorders. This information is important not only for the mental health workers who treat and manage schizophrenia-spectrum patients, but also for police officers who often serve on the 'frontline' between the mental health and criminal justice systems. A robust case-linkage methodology was adopted, linking information contained in state-wide mental health and criminal records databases to compare patterns of criminality between schizophrenia-spectrum patients and community controls. The schizophrenia sample comprised all persons diagnosed with a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder in the Victorian public mental health system in the years 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, and 2005. The control sample was a randomly selected group of Victorians who had never been diagnosed with a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder. This thesis comprised three related empirical studies. The first study characterised the public mental health system in the Australian state of Victoria, a jurisdiction of approximately 5.5 million citizens. The results indicated that the public mental health system is under significant demand from the community, with many people contacting services for reasons other than psychiatric illness. It was found that the majority of intensive public mental health services are accessed by patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, confirming these disorders as having high treatment needs. The study also used contact with the public mental health system to approximate lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia, and found it to be remarkably consistent with national and international estimates over the past century (0.7%). This indicated that schizophrenia, although a relatively rare disorder, has some degree of temporal stability. The second empirical study compared criminal and violent offending in 4,168 schizophrenia-spectrum disorder patients with a randomly selected control sample of 4,641 individuals without schizophrenia. Schizophrenia-spectrum patients were significantly more likely than the community controls to have committed both violent and non-violent crimes, even if they did not have a known co-morbid substance-use disorder. However, the risk of violence was particularly high in those patients with co-morbid substance misuse. The schizophrenia-spectrum patients were also more likely to be involved in family violence incidents attended by police, and to have intervention orders taken out against them. The third empirical study was the first to compare official rates of crime victimisation between schizophrenia-spectrum patients and community controls. Contrary to expectations, the schizophrenia sample had a lower overall rate of crime victimisation than the community controls. However, they were significantly more likely than controls to be affected by family violence and to have a record of physical or sexual crime victimisation, highlighting the unique vulnerabilities of this population. Taken together, this research confirmed that the majority of people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are neither violent nor criminal. However, it also demonstrated that in comparison to the general population, people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are statistically more likely to experience violent crime, both as perpetrators and victims. Thus, in this era of deinstitutionalisation, people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders should be seen as an at-risk population with unique needs and vulnerabilities. Implications of the results for police, mental health workers, patients, and the general community are considered.
Sex Differences In Schizophrenia
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Author : A. Leung
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Sex Differences In Schizophrenia written by A. Leung and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Schizophrenia categories.
Models Of Madness
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Author : John Read
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
Models Of Madness written by John Read and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Schizophrenia categories.
Models of Madnessshows that hallucinations and delusions are understandable reactions to life events and circumstances rather than symptoms of a supposed genetic predisposition or biological disturbance. International contributors: * critique the 'medical model' of madness * examine the dominance of the 'illness' approach to understanding madness from historical and economic perspectives * document the role of drug companies * outline the alternative to drug based solutions * identify the urgency and possibility of prevention of madness. Models of Madness promotes a more humane and effective response to treating severely distressed people that will prove essential reading for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists and of great interest to all those who work in the mental health service. This book forms part of the International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Psychoses series edited by Brian Martindale.
Gun Violence And Mental Illness
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Author : Liza H. Gold, M.D.
language : en
Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub
Release Date : 2015-11-17
Gun Violence And Mental Illness written by Liza H. Gold, M.D. and has been published by American Psychiatric Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Medical categories.
Perhaps never before has an objective, evidence-based review of the intersection between gun violence and mental illness been more sorely needed or more timely. Gun Violence and Mental Illness, written by a multidisciplinary roster of authors who are leaders in the fields of mental health, public health, and public policy, is a practical guide to the issues surrounding the relation between firearms deaths and mental illness. Tragic mass shootings that capture headlines reinforce the mistaken beliefs that people with mental illness are violent and responsible for much of the gun violence in the United States. This misconception stigmatizes individuals with mental illness and distracts us from the awareness that approximately 65% of all firearm deaths each year are suicides. This book is an apolitical exploration of the misperceptions and realities that attend gun violence and mental illness. The authors frame both pressing social issues as public health problems subject to a variety of interventions on individual and collective levels, including utilization of a novel perspective: evidence-based interventions focusing on assessments and indicators of dangerousness, with or without indications of mental illness. Reader-friendly, well-structured, and accessible to professional and lay audiences, the book: * Reviews the epidemiology of gun violence and its relationship to mental illness, exploring what we know about those who perpetrate mass shootings and school shootings. * Examines the current legal provisions for prohibiting access to firearms for those with mental illness and whether these provisions and new mandated reporting interventions are effective or whether they reinforce negative stereotypes associated with mental illness. * Discusses the issues raised in accessing mental health treatment in regard to diminished treatment resources, barriers to access, and involuntary commitment.* Explores novel interventions for addressing these issues from a multilevel and multidisciplinary public health perspective that does not stigmatize people with mental illness. This includes reviews of suicide risk assessment; increasing treatment engagement; legal, social, and psychiatric means of restricting access to firearms when people are in crisis; and, when appropriate, restoration of firearm rights. Mental health clinicians and trainees will especially appreciate the risk assessment strategies presented here, and mental health, public health, and public policy researchers will find Gun Violence and Mental Illness a thoughtful and thought-provoking volume that eschews sensationalism and embraces serious scholarship.
The Wiley Handbook Of What Works In Violence Risk Management
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Author : J. Stephen Wormith
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2020-02-10
The Wiley Handbook Of What Works In Violence Risk Management written by J. Stephen Wormith and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-10 with Psychology categories.
A comprehensive guide to the theory, research and practice of violence risk management The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Violence Risk Management: Theory, Research and Practice offers a comprehensive guide to the theory, research and practice of violence risk management. With contributions from a panel of noted international experts, the book explores the most recent advances to the theoretical understanding, assessment and management of violent behavior. Designed to be an accessible resource, the highly readable chapters address common issues associated with violent behavior such as alcohol misuse and the less common issues for example offenders with intellectual disabilities. Written for both those new to the field and professionals with years of experience, the book offers a wide-ranging review of who commit acts of violence, their prevalence in society and the most recent explanations for their behavior. The contributors explore various assessment approaches and highlight specialized risk assessment instruments. The Handbook provides the latest evidence on effective treatment and risk management and includes a number of well-established and effective treatment interventions for violent offenders. This important book: Contains an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the topic Includes contributions from an international panel of experts Offers information on violence risk formulation Reveals the most recent techniques in violence risk assessment Explains what works in violence intervention Reviews specialty clinical assessments Written for clinicians and other professionals in the field of violence prevention and assessment, The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Violence Risk Management is unique in its approach because it offers a comprehensive review of the topic rather than like other books on the market that take a narrower view.
Mental Disorder And Crime
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Author : Sheilagh Hodgins
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Release Date : 1992-12-29
Mental Disorder And Crime written by Sheilagh Hodgins and has been published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-12-29 with Psychology categories.
Contributors to this volume present and discuss new data which suggest that major mental disorder substantially increases the risk of violent crime. These findings come at a crucial time, since those who suffer from mental disorders are increasingly living in the community, rather than in institutions. The book describes the magnitude and complexity of the problem and offers hope that humane, effective intervention can prevent violent crime being committed by the seriously mentally disordered.