The Madness Of Our Lives
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The Madness Of Our Lives
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Author : Penny Gray
language : en
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Release Date : 2006-04-06
The Madness Of Our Lives written by Penny Gray and has been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-06 with Medical categories.
`The Madness of our Lives is a worthy contribution to the literature on first person accounts of mental distress and illness. Its strength is in the range of experiences it canvasses, and in the freedom given to interviewees to tell their own stories. This is a highly readable and informative book.' - Metapsychology Online `The Madness of our Lives consists largely of transcribed interviews with people who have undergone "madness" and to a greater or lesser extent achieved "recovery". It usefully opens both of these terms up to scrutiny. The book is harrowing but hopeful. It is also frequently moving and through-provoking...In giving advice to people who have experienced madness; the book performs, firstly, a powerful political/ethical gesture. Those interviewed by Penny Gray recount painful experiences of being misunderstood, derided, bullied, abused - in their personal and professional lives and, not least, during treatment; there are numerous accounts here of unsympathetic or negligent GPs and mental health practitioners. This is shocking and compelling material, which needs to be aired.' -Journal of Mental Health, April 2007 `This book comprises a collection of eleven first hand accounts of breakdown and recovery. It is both a fascinating and insightful read with an equal emphasis on recovery and breakdown. The book is aimed at a wide audience of those who have experienced a breakdown themselves and those who care for someone who has experienced breakdown including those in the mental health sector. It certainly would be of interest to all of these groups and the reader would take away a better understanding of the diversity of causes, diversity of experiences and diversity of means of recovery. Importantly, the book is an opportunity to give voice to those who have experienced breakdown and recovery.' -The Journal of Critical Psychology, Vol.7, Spring 2007 `This is a superb book documenting the 1st hand accounts of people who have experienced mental health issues. It not only is fascinating from an anthropological perspective but also in respect of their service experiences, each of which varies...This book should be compulsory curriculum reading for anyone studying or working in this sector. The most valuable lesson that it provides is that one mental health service user's experience is not necessarily another's and therefore services must be person-centred, creating services for people, and avoiding the urge to make the people fit the services. The book would also be of interest to anyone interested in narratives following poor health or disability.' -The Encephalitis Society `Since counselling is fundamentally about listening to clients, this book represents a refreshing return to first principles...We all need to be reminded to listen well and to wear our theory lightly. If we need a reminder that people are active self-healers and the best we may be able to do is to accompany them (and not get in the way), we could take this book as essential reading.' -Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal What precipitates mental breakdown? How do people experience such extremes - and how do they see others' interpretations and interventions? Most important, how do people recover from these episodes and get their lives back? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology of first-hand accounts of mental breakdown and recovery. Eleven very different stories together shed light on what triggers mental breakdown, what it is like to be `mad', whether treatment helps and how people reclaim themselves and their lives. Based on tape-recorded interviews with people who have been through a mental breakdown and come out the other side of it, The Madness of Our Lives breaks the silence around mental distress and offers hope and optimism to mental health service users and their carers.
Our Lives
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Author : John Connolly
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-03-20
Our Lives written by John Connolly and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-20 with Fiction categories.
A series of stories that provide a picture of struggle and strength in many different societies. What makes history live? Stories about individuals who take us to places we have not been. Learning about the lives of girls and women over a lengthy period of time will stimulate discussion about those lives as well as their counterparts today. Each life lived has a story we can learn from. In Our Lives: Girls’ and Women’s Stories Across Two Millennia, editor John Connolly offers ten short fiction stories penned by young writers that provide pictures of the struggle and strength of girls and women in many different societies. These stories may take us to unfamiliar places, as the girls’ and women’s images come to life through original sketches. “Hoski” tells the story of a young Navajo girl living in the period around 1400 in what is now the United States; it explores her relationship with her grandmother and explains why she needs to be strong. “Gaia Valeria” introduces Gaia, a fifteen-year-old from a wealthy family living in Pompeii during the Roman Empire, and compares her life with that of her slave. “The Diary of Zhang Lihua” shares excerpts from the diary of a young woman living in northern China near the end of the sixth century as she describes her family and political changes taking place at that time. Making history come alive, Our Lives is intended to stimulate discussion about the lives of girls and women and their struggles and triumphs of yesteryear and what it means to today’s society.
Precious Cache Poetry In Our Lives
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Author : Debbie Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Precious Cache Poetry In Our Lives written by Debbie Stevens and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
This Thing Called Life
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Author : Don Baunsgard
language : en
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2019-02-06
This Thing Called Life written by Don Baunsgard and has been published by Covenant Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-06 with Fiction categories.
Each and every life has a story to tell. We all have to figure out how to navigate through life with the pain and the struggles that come with it. But. there are invaluable moments of love and beauty, relationships and growth. Every one of us has to learn how to move away from the past and forgive ourselves for the poor choices and the sin and pain that followed it. This Thing Called Life is a personal journey of joy and sorrow, grace, and love. It's about how to learn to love yourself again and see what Jesus saw in you all along. My relationship with Christ has done more than just save me, it helped me to understand what true forgiveness means. Every single one of us is in some way broken, but God has a purpose for each of us.
Writing Our Lives
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Author : Steven Joel Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Release Date : 1991
Writing Our Lives written by Steven Joel Rubin and has been published by Jewish Publication Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Twenty-eight selections from the writings of some of the best-known American-Jewish novelists, dramatists, critics, and historians span the social and cultural history of American Jews in the twentieth century. Often joyous, occasionally tragic, they provide a fascinating record—from immigration to assimilation, from life in the ghetto to the current movement by many to recapture their Jewish identity. At once personal and historical, the selections are poignant and moving testimonies to the perseverance of the American-Jewish people.
Taking Back Our Lives In The Age Of Corporate Dominance
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Author : Ellen Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Release Date : 2000-01-13
Taking Back Our Lives In The Age Of Corporate Dominance written by Ellen Schwartz and has been published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-13 with Business & Economics categories.
The authors show how our advertising-driven culture causes material desires to grow with no corresponding increase in personal time or energy to pursue them.
A Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life
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Author : William Law (Author of A Serious Call.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
A Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life written by William Law (Author of A Serious Call.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with categories.
A Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life
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Author : William Law
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1821
A Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life written by William Law and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1821 with Christian life categories.
The Madness Of Crowds
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Author : Douglas Murray
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-17
The Madness Of Crowds written by Douglas Murray and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Political Science categories.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' – Jordan B. Peterson '[Murray's] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone' – Richard Dawkins Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive. One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society – from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women – Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.
A Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life
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Author : William Law
language : en
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Release Date : 2021-12-14
A Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life written by William Law and has been published by Hendrickson Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with Religion categories.
Originally published in 1728 at the beginning of the Enlightenment when rational criticism of religious belief was at its peak, William Law’s work succeeded in inspiring the most cynical men of the age with its arguments in favor of a spiritual life. Proclaiming that God does not merely forgive our disobedience, but directly calls us to obedience and to a life completely centered in him, Law declares, “If you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but because you never thoroughly intended it.” Law’s prose is packed with vivid imagery and illustrative anecdotes that both reveal what it means to lead a Christian life and unmask the perversion of Christian tenets by secular and spiritual establishments. This challenge of conventional piety and emphasis on Christian perfection directly influenced literary critic Samuel Johnson and historian Edward Gibbon, as well as Cardinal John Henry Newman. John Wesley called Law’s work one of three books that accounted for his first “explicit resolve to be all devoted to God.” Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Henry Venn, William Wilberforce, and Thomas Scott each described reading the book as a major turning point in his life. William Law (1686-1761) was educated at Cambridge, took a teaching position there, and was also ordained in the Church of England. He lost his access to university venues and the parish ministry when he was unable to swear allegiance to the Hanoverian dynasty that replaced the Stuarts as the rulers of Great Britain. Although forbidden the use of pulpit and lecture hall, he preached through his books, including Christian Perfection, The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration, Spirit of Prayer, and Spirit of Love.