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Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope Over Suicide by DeQuincy A. Lezine, PH.D with David Brent, M.D., is both the touching memoir of how Lezine survived the desire to commit suicide and a useful guide that will ease the isolation and hopelessness caused by the thoughts of suicide. The excerpt below, the preface to […]
An excerpt from Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Guide For Individuals and Families.
An extract on Prozac, from Happiness by Daniel Nettle
It’s a wonderful feeling. You apply for your first MasterCard, hoping to be accepted. Finally it arrives in the mail, and you feel like a million bucks. It’s shiny and new, and it comes with a letter that tells you your credit limit. In most cases, this happy event occurs when you are quite young.
A podcast with Stuart Vyse author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can’t Hold On To Their Money.
Learning how to assert yourself.
An excerpt from Feeling Unreal.
A look at the film Numb.
An excerpt from Snake Oil Science.
David Tolin helps us prepare for the holidays
Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Second Edition by Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison chronicles the medical treatment of manic and depressive episodes, strategies for preventing future episodes, and psychotherapeutic issues common in this illness. In the excerpt below the authors introduce their second edition.
An excerpt from Robert Klitzman’s When Doctors Become Patients.
An excerpt from The Elephant in the Room.
An excerpt from The Complete Writing Guide to NIH Behavioral Science Grants.
Daniel Nettle takes a look at the personality survery results.
An excerpt from Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry by Jimmie Holland, MD.