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bibliographyMcNally, Richard J.
Summary: Discusses the classification process for mental illness, examing the difficulty that practioners have of separating normal reactions to everyday stresses from true mental disorders, which involve recurring patterns of symptoms and behaviors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 MCNSederer, Lloyd I.
Summary: More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our families and communities. Family members and friends are often the first to realize when someone has a problem, but it is hard to know how to help or where to turn. From understanding depression,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 SEDWhitaker, Robert.
Contents: A modern plague -- Anecdotal thoughts -- The roots of an epidemic -- Psychiatry's magic bullets -- The hunt for chemical imbalances -- A paradox revealed -- The benzo trap -- An episodic illness turns chronic -- The bipolar boom -- An epidemic explained -- The epidemic spreads to children -- Suffer the children -- The rise of an ideology -- The story that was ... and wasn't told -- Tallying up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind WhitakerWatters, Ethan.
Summary: Journalist Watters explores the American exportation of how the world goes mad, arguing that as we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010