(Part 2) Best pathology books according to redditors
We found 124 Reddit comments discussing the best pathology books. We ranked the 44 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Apparently nowadays she's a registered pediatric nurse, who also gives seminars about "adoption, attachment and bonding issues, early trauma, and Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) to families and professionals". She also wrote the book Dandelion on My Pillow, Butcher Knife Beneath.
Not quite true. There a quite a few different types of suicidal people, one of which is the 'death darer'. Still very likely to die, though they are not 100% sure they want to die. They tend to ask for help before the act, but that does not mean that they will not kill themselves, if fact, if no ones comes when they call for help, death is even more likely. If you want to ignore someone asking for help, go for it, but when they kill themselves you will realize you were wrong to write them off.
Also, my information comes from this book, and the particular theory of 'death darers' is from Shneidman, a suicidologist.
I was reading "Cambodia's Curse" and the author basically reported how jaded the US government were about what was about to break out in Cambodia due to the lack of interests in that country. All focus was on Vietnam. I never really got to finish that book, but yeah, definitely heard of the war before the war.
I yearned for my old self for years. In my opinion, this yearning and all of the feelings associated with it is a classic case of disenfranchised grief: "grief that persons experience when they incur a loss that is not or cannot be openly acknowledged, socially sanctioned or publically mourned." Although I did attempt to grieve what had happened to me, I did not have a diagnosis for 16 years. I was grieving a nebulous loss confused by all the delusional thinking of my first episode.
My loss and my grief passed without notice by most people. My mother witnessed some of it, but I never told her what it was about. For example, about a year after the worst of my first episode was over, I started going out into the garage to howl or sing mournfully for a good hour at a time.
It wasn't until I got my diagnosis that I was able to grieve more fully. Even now, nine years after diagnosis, I still have pangs of grief for my former self that are reminiscent of the occasional pangs I still I feel for my father, even though he has been dead for 25 years.
If my reasoning appeals to you, and you want to read more, you will have to do some creative work of your own to apply grief concepts to loss of mental health. Grief is a reaction to significant loss, of any kind, but the writing on grief that I am familiar with tends to restrict loss to the death of a loved one. Sadly, this tendency is itself is a case of the disenfranchisement of grief.
One exception is Virginia Lafond's book Grieving Mental Illness. It is, however, only a partial exception, mostly because she uses the naive staging model of grief begun by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and others, whereas current thinking on the topic allows that grief is much more various, complicated, and individual. Aside from Lafond, the only relevant resource that I am aware of is a research paper that you can download here. Your mileage may vary on its usefulness. I have not read it and cannot evaluate it.
The classic source on disenfrachised grief itself is Kenneth J. Doka's 1989 book. It sounds good, but again, I have not read it, and I assume you will have to adapt its contents to loss of mental health.
Edit: I almost forgot Ellen Frank's book Treating Bipolar Disorder. Chapter 9 has a small section on "grief for the lost healthy self," and the theme is treated in passing throughout the book. The book is geared to psychotherapists rather than patients, but it's accessible and worth a read.
well, there are many books that make the case. I suggest above: Understanding Jihad, by David Cook is a good place to start.
Walter Laqueur, historian of Europe, has also written on this subject
http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Terrorism-Psychologies-Ideologies-Theologies/dp/0943875897/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1408849836&sr=8-16&keywords=walter+laqueur
But we needn't appeal to the authority of Western academics to understand why the jihadists do what they do. What do the jihadists say about their own motivations?
You ought to consider reading some books on psychopathy. Might connect a few more dots. Here are a few:
Here are a few that I've collected over the last couple of years (excluding the ones that have already been mentioned, and the ones that include a discussion of suicide methods):
SUICIDE & EUTHANASIA:
ANTINATALISM:
Somewhat less serious:
I would recommend books by neurologist V.S. Ramachandran such as Phantoms in the Brain
From a more psychiatric slant, books by Ronald K Siegel like Whispers and Fire in the Brain are collections of case studies about delusions and hallucinations
regarding 'delusions of grandeur, establishing himself as chosen knight with the right to choose who lives and dies', all of that can be said of shahids with equal validity. but are shahids called insane?
also, i would say that while arrogating unto oneself the 'right' to choose who lives and who dies is abhorrent but not insane. and 'unreasonable expectations of the world'; well, i think that we're all guilty of that at times, though magnitudes certainly differ. still, if you've ever waited tables, then you know that people are just brimming with unreasonable expectations of how others should comport themselves lol.
regarding the rest, i do agree with you concerning an unreasonable-ness that amounts to insanity.
still, past readings do lead me to conclude that too much of this psychological assessment is cultural judgment of deviation from normative beliefs rather than diagnosis of neurochemical imbalance.
This one is amazing.
The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0911226443/ref=cm\_sw\_em\_r\_mt\_dp\_U\_wLU6CbXEKJJWC
well. A book that changed my life back when I was 15 was Walden from Thoreau. I threw away everything I owned. yeah I mean everything even my bed. I own nothing that dates from before I was 15. Would this have the same effect today? who knows.
back then, the book Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche had something to to with me ''taking a break'' from school, contributing too did: genealogy of Morals, into the wild, Adorno - dialectic of Enlightenment ( had no idea what that guy was talking about back then but made me real queasy about the world nonetheless.)
books that changed my life recently: Lying from Sam Harris. Steven Pinker - Enlightenment now made me pick a lot of fights with people who like to hate this world.
Insanity of Normality made me forgive some people I had real bad feelings toward, though I'm sceptical now of what is said in the book
unless you understand german you won't be able to read this: Blödmachinen , made me a snob in regards to media. Bernard Stieglers books might have the same effect in english
oh and selfish gene by Dawkins made me less judgmental. Don't know why. I just like people more
EDIT
oh lest I forget: Kandinsky - Concerning The Spiritual in Art made me paint my appartement black blue; Bukowski and the Rubaiyat made me drink more, Born To Run made me run barefoot, Singers Practical Ethics made me donate money and buy far less stuff.
Mark Epstein - Trauma of everyday life. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1594205132?pc_redir=1408113613&robot_redir=1 basically biography of Buddha and his basic teachings reinterpreted via psychotherapist view
https://mn.gov/mnddc/positive_behavior_supports/herbLovett.html
http://disabledchristianity.blogspot.com/2007/03/at-end-of-february-i-had-opportunity-to.html?m=1
https://www.amazon.com/Diagnostic-Manual-Intellectual-Disability-DM-ID/dp/1572561254
This is a great article about doing DBT with people with IDD. Chart 1 is fascinating: it explains how prevalent Linehan's invalidating experiences are for people with IDD. It's a pdf, so I'm having trouble copying the url, but you can google.
DBT for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities:
A Program Description
Marvin Lew, Ph.D. (Child & Family Psychologists, Weston, FL),
Christy Matta, M.A., Carol Tripp-Tebo, M.A., Doug Watts, M.A. (The Bridge
of Central Massachusetts, Worcester, MA)
Published in: Mental Health Aspects of Developmental Disabilities
My daughter started at 14. Discovering this was the darkest day of my life, easily. It all started with a boy's rejection.
As odd as it sounds to say, it's a 'trendy' thing amongst kids now. There are social network pages full of cutting images... It's almost a contest to see who can be the saddest... When I called the psychologist office to get an appointment, the receptionist sighed and said this is the #1 reason for new patient intake... You're the 5th this week.
This book helped:
When Your Child is Cutting
I want to give you hope, though. My daughter is now 18.5 yo, and hasn't cut in over 2 years. She still has scars, but has gotten through, and is stronger for it. She's getting ready to start college, and is looking to pursue a career in counseling/therapy.
Contact a psychologist office (if you need help with recommendations, call your daughter's school).
Something like this might be helpful for you.
You should read a couple of books on the concept of a spiritual emergency. Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis and Trials of the Visionary Mind
http://www.princeton.edu/~kahneman/docs/Publications/prospect_theory.pdf
A little technical, but a good introduction to modern decision making theory.
Light and fluffy, with some significance flaws, but very readable for non technical folks:
http://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/014311526X
Not directly related to math side of my research, but an interesting history of the refinement of marketing:
http://www.amazon.com/PR-Social-History-Stuart-Ewen/dp/0465061680/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
Another very readable book with the usual "I'm writing a book I only include evidence I like" sort of bias, but still worth it:
http://www.amazon.com/Risk-Things-Shouldnt-Ourselves-Greater/dp/0771032595
Good luck.
Here's a book about it: http://www.amazon.com/Transcending-Self-Interest-Psychological-Explorations-Quiet/dp/1433803402
It may be able to explain it better than I can. In general, though, it seems to be about being more outward focused than inward.
I understand your viewpoint. Naturally, I try to educate people, but the hardcore antipsychiatry people don't necessarily want to be "schooled".
The conversation usually takes a turn for the worse with them citing books such as the following: http://www.amazon.com/Psychiatry-Science-Thomas-Stephen-Szasz/dp/0815609108. (All this guy does is take potshots at psychiatry's history and conveniently ignores modern day research. He also offers no solutions to patients with psychiatric illness)
Anyway, I have better luck with the educated people out there, and I could care less about the haters. Ive decided to pursue psychiatry and have realized the best thing to do is to ignore the haters. Why should I let my blood pressure rise over some persons ignorance? I think over time psychiatry will inevitably become more accepted by society, but this will happen over generations. Just like the civil rights and gay rights movements, it may perhaps take multiple lifetimes for stereotypes to die out.
I'm going to keep going with psychiatry. Many thanks for your thoughts! I do try to educate people in general, but the kind of people that would listen to my arguments wouldn't really need an education. (Rational educated people) Its the closed minded types who just try to counterargue everything and do not listen in general.
https://www.amazon.com/Satanic-Ritual-Abuse-Principles-Treatment/dp/0802073573
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse
http://ra-info.org/impacts-of-trauma/therapy-and-healing/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-trauma/201502/ritual-abuse-cults-and-captivity