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Voluntary Madness
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Author : Norah Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-12-30
Voluntary Madness written by Norah Vincent and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-30 with Psychology categories.
From the author of The New York Times bestseller Self- Made Man, a captivating expose of depression and mental illness in America Revelatory, deeply personal, and utterly relevant, Voluntary Madness is a controversial work that unveils the state of mental healthcare in the United States from the inside out. At the conclusion of her celebrated first book--Self-Made Man, in which she soent eighteen months disguised as a man-Norah Vincent found herself emotionally drained and severely depressed. Determined but uncertain about maintaining her own equilibrium, she boldly committed herself to three different facilities-a big-city hospital, a private clinic in the Midwest, and finally an upscale retreat in the South. Voluntary Madness is the chronicle of Vincent's journey through the world of the mentally ill as she struggles to find her own health and happiness.
Voluntary Madness
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Author : Norah Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-01-15
Voluntary Madness written by Norah Vincent and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Norah Vincent's acclaimed first book she described how she spent eighteen months disguised as a man, an experience that ended on a locked ward in a psychiatric hospital. She left determined to learn more about the world of psychiatry and to examine whether different mental institutions would offer different solutions to their patients, but rather than researching it as a journalist she chose to experience it as a patient. Her journey begins in a huge inner-city hospital, before moving to the calming green carpet of St Lukes where patients are offered a room of their own and a regular jog in the park. From there she moves to Mobius, and a Buddhist-inspired brand of healing where she is forced to swim through West Coast psychobabble to some unexpected conclusions. The result is a fearless and unprecedented view of mental health care - from the inside out.
Voluntary Madness
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Author : Vicki Hendricks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-12-06
Voluntary Madness written by Vicki Hendricks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-06 with categories.
Punch and Juliette make a pack to live a wild life in Key West for a year, creating scenes to use in his novel, with the climax a suicide during Fantasy Fest. But the money runs out early, and their escapades take a serious turn. Bohemian atmosphere, Romeo and Juliet on a motorcycle, the meaning of love explored at Coral Castle--in high gear.
Self Made Man
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Author : Norah Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 2006-01
Self Made Man written by Norah Vincent and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01 with Social Science categories.
A Los Angeles Times columnist recounts her eighteen-month undercover stint as a man, a time during which she underwent considerable personal risks as she worked a sales job, joined a bowling league, frequented sex clubs, dated, and encountered firsthand the rigid codes and rituals of masculinity. 80,000 first printing.
Voluntary Madness
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Author : Vickie Hendricks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-06
Voluntary Madness written by Vickie Hendricks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-06 with Fiction categories.
Beautiful, sexy Juliette is madly in love with Punch. She'll do absolutely anything for him. She also loves getting buck-naked on dark Key West byways and flashing strangers by moonlight. Punch loves Juliette ... sort of. He loves even more the booze he drinks like a fish, Juliette's inherited money on which he's happy to live, the image of himself as a wannabe writer, and the idea of flaming out in a joint suicide when his novel is done and the money runs out. Together Juliette and Punch have come to Key West in a desperate quest for something vital, something eloquent in their lives-some antidote to their hollow loneliness. One day Juliette wanders into a pawnshop and buys a "cute" little Beretta .25 caliber pistol-like a snake in the Garden of Eden. Then the real trouble starts. Voluntary Madness is a crazed, unputdownable motorcycle ride to either perdition or salvation that has become a noir classic in its own time.
Psychology And Other Stories
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Author : C. P. Boyko
language : en
Publisher: Biblioasis
Release Date : 2012-10-23
Psychology And Other Stories written by C. P. Boyko and has been published by Biblioasis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with Fiction categories.
FINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE “C.P. Boyko's second offering is brilliantly bold. Playful and dire and scholarly all at once, Psychology may well be the most audaciously original collection of Canadian fiction, ever. Mr. Mustard alone is worth the price of admission.”—Bill Gaston, author of Mount Appetite “Very revealing.”—Hubert T. Ross, PhD, PsyD, DPsy Psychologists are people we admire and resent. At best, they’re compassionate detectives of the human soul, healers and diagnosticians, assessing the internal machinations that structure our lives and behavior. At worst, however, they’re smug, hyper-educated, bombastic, yappy, socially deaf, thrice-divorced and twice-separated spouse-swapping cat-torturing perverts. Plus, they’re all in this book. And so are their patients. C.P. Boyko’s Psychology and Other Stories is replete with analysts, attorneys, criminals, Freudians, wardens, and self-help gurus. From Dr. Pringle’s treatment-resisting young patient in “Reaction-Formation” to the philandering forensic psychiatrist of “The Blood-Brain Barrier,” Psychology is a droll dissection of industry archetypes—as well as a brilliant study of mental illness, mental health, and the people who try to tell them apart.
Self Made Madness
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Author : Edward W. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
Self Made Madness written by Edward W. Mitchell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Law categories.
This multi-disciplinary book lies in the general areas of forensic psychiatry/psychology, sociology, jurisprudence, criminal law and criminology. It questions traditional assumptions about illness and mental disorder, and deals with the controversial notion that mental disorders (and possibly other 'illnesses') may be to varying extents the fault of the 'sufferer'. It examines how the law can take into account such 'culpable' notions of mental disorder in determining criminal responsibility. This culpability for the defense-causing condition (or 'responsibility for level of criminal responsibility') is called 'meta-responsibility'. The book is divided into two parts. The first section discusses theoretical issues, such as the manner in which traditional illness models relate to meta-responsibility; the insanity defence and other mental condition defences; the relationship of clinical issues such as medication non-compliance and insight to meta-responsibility and the counterfactual notion that consideration of the possible voluntary origins of mental disorder may benefit the criminal and non-criminal mentally disordered. The second section of the book presents a case vignette experiment of mock jurors, examining the effect of a 'meta-responsibility insanity test'.
Thy Neighbor
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Author : Norah Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-08-02
Thy Neighbor written by Norah Vincent and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-02 with Fiction categories.
From the New York Times bestselling author, a first novel as spellbinding as her acclaimed nonfiction At thirty-four, Nick Walsh is a broken, deeply cynical man. Since the violent deaths of his parents thirteen years earlier, he has been living alone in his childhood home in the suburban Midwest, drinking, drugging, and debauching himself into oblivion. A measure of solace is provided by his newly found relationship with Monica, a mysterious woman who seems to harbor as many secrets as he does. Obsessed with understanding the circumstances surrounding his parents’ deaths and deranged by his relentless sorrow, Nick begins a campaign of spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones he has covertly installed in their houses. As he observes with amusement and disbelief all the strange, sad, and terrifying things that his neighbors do to themselves and to one another, and as he, in turn, learns that he is being stalked, he begins to slowly unravel the shocking truth about how and why his parents died. At once unsettling and moving, humorous and horrifying, Thy Neighbor explores the nature of grief, the potential isolation of suburban life, and who we really are when we think no one is watching. What readers and critics have admired in Norah Vincent’s nonfiction is completely unleashed in this vivid and provocative novel.
Madness Mayhem
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Author : Emma Slate
language : en
Publisher: Tabula Rasa Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2022-08-05
Madness Mayhem written by Emma Slate and has been published by Tabula Rasa Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-05 with Fiction categories.
A single night can change everything. Now I’m pregnant with a biker’s baby. I try to give Slash an out, but he claims me. He wants more. He wants us. He wants to protect me and our baby. Slash is rugged and virile, and I’m falling for him hard and fast. I know he’s not white-picket-fence material, but he makes me feel safe and adored. I never thought I’d be with a man like him. But he’s so wrong he might be my right.
Where Madness Lies
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Author : Sylvia True
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-29
Where Madness Lies written by Sylvia True and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-29 with Fiction categories.
Germany, 1934. Rigmor, a young Jewish woman is a patient at Sonnenstein, a premier psychiatric institution known for their curative treatments. But with the tide of eugenics and the Nazis’ rise to power, Rigmor is swept up in a campaign to rid Germany of the mentally ill. USA, 1984. Sabine, battling crippling panic and depression commits herself to McLean Hospital, but in doing so she has unwittingly agreed to give up her baby. Linking these two generations of women is Inga, who did everything in her power to help her sister, Rigmor. Now with her granddaughter, Sabine, Inga is given a second chance to free someone she loves from oppressive forces, both within and without. This is a story about hope and redemption, about what we pass on, both genetically and culturally. It is about the high price of repression, and how one woman, who lost nearly everything, must be willing to reveal the failures of the past in order to save future generations. With chilling echoes of our time, Where Madness Lies is based on a true story of the author’s own family.