Brandon and the Bipolar Bear - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brandon and the Bipolar Bear write by Tracy Anglada. This book was released on 2009-05. Brandon and the Bipolar Bear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fictional story about Brandon, a young boy living with bipolar disorder. Readers learn about his symptoms, fears, and treatment from a child's viewpoint.
Brandon and the Bipolar Bear
Brandon and the Bipolar Bear - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brandon and the Bipolar Bear write by Tracy Anglada. This book was released on 2001. Brandon and the Bipolar Bear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus
Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus write by Dave Holmes. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and nursing, Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus exposes psychiatric practices that are mobilized along the continuum of repression, transformation and assistance. It critically examines taken for granted psychiatric practices both past and current, shedding light on the often political nature of psychiatry and reconceptualizing its central and sensitive issues through the radical theory of figures such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Goffman, and Szasz. As such, this ground-breaking collection embraces a broad understanding of psychiatric practices and engages the reader in a critical understanding of their effects, challenging the discipline’s altruistic rhetoric of therapy and problematizing the ways in which this is operationalized in practice. A comprehensive exploration of contested psychiatric practices in healthcare settings, this interdisciplinary volume brings together recent scholarship from the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, to provide a rich array of theoretical tools with which to engage with questions related to psychiatric power, discipline and control, while theorizing their workings in creative and imaginative ways.
The Bipolar Bear Family
The Bipolar Bear Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bipolar Bear Family write by Angela Ann Holloway. This book was released on 2006-07-01. The Bipolar Bear Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Bipolar Bear Family is a story about a young cub who struggles to understand his mother's behavior and her subsequent diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder. The story of The Bipolar Bear Family helps children of bipolar parents address such questions as: Is this my fault? Is it contagious? Can I fix it? According to the National Institute for Mental Health, Bipolar Disorder affects more than 2 million American adults. Further, we know that the dynamics of Mental Illness closely mirror the dynamics of alcoholism and addiction in its impact on the family system. By compassionately educating parents and children, the author hopes to make a life-long difference for these courageous families.
Bipolar Children
Bipolar Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bipolar Children write by Sharna Olfman. This book was released on 2007-10-30. Bipolar Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last decade, the number of children diagnosed with bipolar disorder has increased up to fortyfold. This is a trend exclusive to the United States, and one that, alarmingly, leads to most of the diagnosed children—some still in their infancy—being prescribed antipsychotic drugs, often in combination with anticonvulsants. These classes of drugs have dangerous side effects, including a doubling of mortality rates, shortened life span, extreme weight gain, and Type II diabetes. In this book, psychologist Sharna Olfman leads a team of widely known experts who examine that astonishing rise in the diagnosis of pediatric bipolar disorder, particularly in the absence of any compelling evidence for either the validity of the criteria being used to diagnose it or the safety and effectiveness of the drugs being used to treat it. When a child is unnecessarily prescribed antipsychotic and anticonvulsant drugs, his or her mental and physical health may be irrecoverably compromised, says Olfman. With as many as two-and-a-half million children from across the socioeconomic spectrum now taking antipsychotics, we have set the stage for widescale child abuse. The contributors to this revealing and disturbing volume include psychiatrist David Healy, one of the world's leading authorities on psychotropic drugs; pediatrician Philip Landrigan, an internationally renowned health researcher; and Robert Whitaker, an award winning medical journalist. The contributors identify and explain complex and interrelated factors that have set the stage for the pediatric bipolar epidemic, and they recommend practice and policy changes to stem the tide of misdiagnosis and dangerous drug prescriptions.
