DELUSIONS OF CARE.
Author | : BONAVENTURE. SOH BEJENG NDIKUNG |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
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ISBN | : 9783948212506 |
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Author | : BONAVENTURE. SOH BEJENG NDIKUNG |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
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ISBN | : 9783948212506 |
Author | : Leonard Shengold |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780300062687 |
We are all more primitive and irrational than we care to acknowledge, says Dr. Leonard Shengold in this profound and eloquent book. We all suffer to some degree from delusions--vestiges of infantile mental functioning that continue into adult life and that at times of crisis manifest themselves in narcissistic thoughts of omnipotence, immortality, or perfection. Dr. Shengold argues that we can never eliminate these delusions of everyday life, but we can lessen their effect if we acknowledge, or "own", them. He asserts that insight into what we are and what has happened to us is a prerequisite for caring about others and for accepting the transient conditions of life--both necessary to attain happiness. Dr. Shengold discusses delusions we all experience as well as delusions associated with paranoia, perversions, being in love, and identification with delusional parents. He illustrates his ideas by referring to the lives and works of such literary figures as Shakespeare, Swift, Tolstoy, Pascal, Rilke, Randall Jarrell, Dickens, Hardy, and, especially, Samuel Butler. Dr. Shengold also brings in relevant clinical material because, as he points out, delusions of everyday life are at the heart of misunderstanding and conflict in life and of resistance to change in psychological treatment. These delusions must be attenuated if therapy is to be successful.
Author | : E. Fuller Torrey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199988714 |
E. Fuller Torrey's book provides an insider's perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program.
Author | : Paul Chadwick |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
Psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and nurses are increasingly involved in treatments which include psychological therapy, and particularly cognitive therapy, for serious mental disorders. The aim of this book is to guide such professionals towards better practice by treating the individual symptoms of delusions, voices and paranoia, rather than by the categorisation of schizophrenia. The authors provide an introduction to their cognitive model and show how therapy depends crucially on the collaborative relationship with the client. While earlier approaches to these distressing symptoms depended on an overall model of schizophrenia which emphasised fundamental discontinuities with normal thought and psychological processes, the authors? approach is supported by substantial research that indicates that delusions, voices and paranoia lie on a continuum of differences in thought and behaviour, and do not arise from fundamentally different psychological processes. This book offers a practical, research-based and essentially hopeful approach to the assessment and treatment of psychotic disorders and also an argument for the development of a person model for treatment, which is based on the person?s enduring psychological vulnerabilities. This book appears in The Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology Series Editor: J. Mark G. Williams University of Wales, Bangor, UK
Author | : Daniel Freeman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Delusions of persecution are common in conditions such as schizophrenia, but they also affect 10-20% of the general population. In this landmark book, the three major authorities in the field bring together the current knowledge about the assessment, understanding, and treatment of persecutory delusions.
Author | : Lawrie Reznek |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1442206055 |
We all think that we can tell the difference between someone who is mad, or whom psychiatrists call psychotic, and someone who is sane. But can we really tell who is mad and who is not? Do we really know what madness is and how it should be recognized? Have psychiatrists made a sensible distinction between the patient who believes that aliens are beaming messages to him from a foreign planet, and the religious fanatic who believes God communicates to him via automatic writing? Is there a difference between the paranoid patient who believes that the FBI is after him, and the sizeable proportion of our normal population that believe that the US government orchestrated the 9-11 bombings? Here, Reznek hopes to shed light on the delusions of the masses-those delusions that are common to everyday people living so-called ordinary lives. He provides an understanding of madness and the psychological processes that drive us to adopt delusions, arguing that it is a mistake to view only schizophrenic patients as delusional, while excluding large groups of society from such an analysis. If we abandon the idea that whole communities cannot share a delusion, we can come to a better understanding about why the world is such a dangerous place.
Author | : Ethan Watters |
Publisher | : Scribner |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1999-04-16 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : |
Two acclaimed authors deliver an attack on talk therapy, from its Freudian underpinnings to contemporary practice, and expose the failure of this "pseudoscience" that still holds enormous sway over the American mind.
Author | : J. D. Robb |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-09-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101600209 |
Lieutenant Eve Dallas must foil a terrorist plot in this explosive thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series. It was just another after-work happy hour at a bar downtown—until the madness descended. And after twelve minutes of chaos and violence, more than eighty people lay dead. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things—monsters and swarms of bees. They describe sudden, overwhelming feelings of fear and rage and paranoia. When forensics makes its report, the mass delusions make more sense: it appears the bar patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive anyone into temporary insanity—if not kill them outright. But that doesn’t explain who would unleash such horror—or why. Eve’s husband, Roarke, happens to own the bar, but he’s convinced the attack wasn’t directed at him. It’s bigger than that. And if Eve can’t figure it out fast, it could happen again, anytime, anywhere. Because it’s airborne…
Author | : Shankar Vedantam |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2021-03-02 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0393652211 |
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2021 A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021 From the New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a thought-provoking look at the role of self-deception in human flourishing. Self-deception does terrible harm to us, to our communities, and to the planet. But if it is so bad for us, why is it ubiquitous? In Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler argue that, paradoxically, self-deception can also play a vital role in our success and well-being. The lies we tell ourselves sustain our daily interactions with friends, lovers, and coworkers. They can explain why some people live longer than others, why some couples remain in love and others don’t, why some nations hold together while others splinter. Filled with powerful personal stories and drawing on new insights in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Useful Delusions offers a fascinating tour of what it really means to be human.
Author | : Lisa Bortolotti |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199206163 |
The book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of delusions. It brings together recent work in philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology and psychiatry, offering a comprehensive review of the philosophical issues raised by the psychology of normal and abnormal cognition.