Brief Book Reviews: March 2025
Psychiatric Times
MARCH 3, 2025
Check out 2 bite-sized reviews of books related to mental health.
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Psychiatric Times
MARCH 3, 2025
Check out 2 bite-sized reviews of books related to mental health.
Mad in America
MARCH 8, 2025
In 2024, she published a book, Recovery from Schizophrenia: Evidence, History and Hope , that told of her Vermont Longitudinal Study and how many in psychiatry, rather than celebrate the relatively good outcomes for the patients in her study, instead were quite furious with her for upsetting their beliefs. .” Whitaker: Final question.
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NPR - Mental Health
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Shift: Managing Your Emotions So They Don't Manage You.'/> In his new book, Shift , psychologist and neuroscientist Ethan Kross busts common assumptions about how to manage big feelings and explains why it's OK sometimes to avoid them for a while. Image credit: woocat/Getty Images)
Mad in America
OCTOBER 25, 2023
As Dawkins summarized it: The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes. ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post It’s Time to Consign the “Selfish Gene” to the History Books | Jeremy Lent appeared first on Mad In America.
Dr. Deb
JANUARY 11, 2024
One of my favorite things when writing children's books is when my wonderful and talented illustrator, Kyra Teis , takes my notes and creates the characters and illustrations for the picture book. My next book will focus on jealousy in children in late 2024. Can't wait to share more.
The New York Times -- Mental Health
MARCH 13, 2025
What started as a scholarly study becomes, in Will Reess hands, a freewheeling journey into our brains and souls.
Psychiatry Online
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
Dr. Deb
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Thanks to iRead Book Tours for my latest book tour! As with other books in the "Sometimes When" series, Dr. Deborah Serani, Psy.D, A special section at the back of the book provides more information and tips for adults to help little ones work through the jealous feelings. Deborah Serani, Psy.D,
Now Psych
JANUARY 2, 2025
Anxiety Books for Kids I am frequently asked by parents for book recommendations for their children struggling with anxiety. Picking a kids anxiety book can be a helpful tool in managing anxiety and promoting mental health. Personal relevance: Choose a book that relates to your child’s specific anxiety concerns.
Dr. Deb
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Goodreads Book Giveaway Sometimes When I'm Jealous by Deborah Serani Giveaway ends October 01, 2024. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway
International Society for Interpersonal Psychother
JULY 4, 2024
Something else that has been in the works for a long time, specifically since the pandemic, and recently took a step forward is Myrna Weissman’s and Jennifer Mootz’s book, “Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach,” which is finally ready for publication. A brief history of interpersonal psychotherapy.
Zencare
JANUARY 23, 2025
We've pulled together some of our favorite mental health books we've read or been recommended in 2024. You might find that not every book on this list will be a good fit or good help to you, and you might find that even your own therapist doesn't recommend it and that's totally fine! Review I absolutely loved this book!
Dr. Deb
OCTOBER 8, 2023
Book Tour Schedule: Oct 9 Liese's Blog book spotlight Oct 9 - Leanne Bookstagram book review Oct 10 Paws.Read.Repeat book review / giveaway Oct 10 - Rockin' Book Reviews book review / giveaway Oct 11 The Sexy Nerd Revue book spotlight Oct 12 fundinmental book spotlight / giveaway Oct 12 Gina Rae Mitchell book review / giveaway Oct 16 Cover (..)
Child Mind Intitute
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Each year, it seems that theres a new childrens book (or 10!) Clinicians at the Child Mind Institute specializing in conditions that include anxiety, depression, and autism reviewed more than 60 titles that were published in 2024 to compile our inaugural annual list of the best kids’ books for mental health. What if I get lost?
The Online Therapist
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
I read a lot of self-help books and they are mostly all the same. However, there is one book that I have returned to many times. Change your thinking and change your life. It is not technically in the self-help genre, more technical, but it holds information essential to understanding how we see relationships.
Mad in America
JANUARY 31, 2025
Writing in CounterPunch , Bruce Levine reviews Joanna Moncrieff’s new book Chemically Imbalanced. ” Article Photo by Damir Samatkulov The post New Book by Courageous Psychiatrist about Her Professions Most Damaging Falsehood appeared first on Mad In America.
Mad in America
MARCH 28, 2024
The pill nearly killed her and took her away from her kids, which Katinka has described in her book, “ The pill that steals lives.” At the book launch in 2016, which I attended, Katinka said she was very lucky to be there alive, and not serving a life sentence for killing her children.
Mad in America
JULY 10, 2024
She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging. Before I researched you, I read your book and thought you were twenty years older. What was that like for you as a child, and how has it influenced your book? So, let’s start there.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Her first book, The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt , tells the story of a 1930s millionairess whose mother secretly sterilized her to deprive her of the family fortune, sparking a sensational case and forcing a debate of eugenics. She now teaches a course on U.S. history at Mount St.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Instead, the authors quoted a book written by one of them and by Robert D Goldney who has published a review that is a classic example of how one should not do a review. [17] She called my book about organised crime in the drug industry, [35] which has two chapters about psychiatry, “The first dark book.” 19] Sagan C.
History Psychiatry
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Dear Hmadness readers, Yvonne Ilg’s new book, “Schizophrenie” in der Alltagssprache: Eine linguistische Begriffsgeschichte 19082009, has just been published. It… Read more Book: Schizophrenie in der Alltagssprache: Eine linguistische Begriffsgeschichte 19082009, by Yvonne Ilg
Mad in America
MARCH 6, 2025
In her book Inside Oregon State Hospital: A History of Tragedy and Triumph , Diane Goerse-Gardner describes how, shortly after the discovery of insulin in 1922, OSH started using it to induce a seizure and sometimes a near death coma. However, there is one vivid story recorded by Gardner in her book.
Mad in America
MARCH 27, 2024
Herrnstein passed away shortly before the book was published in 1994. In their 800+ page book, they argued that IQ tests measure “intelligence” and that IQ is a strong predictor of school and career achievement. We focused on the genetic research cited in the book, including some relevant history of the IQ genetics debate.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. 650 In 2022, he published the book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 25, 2023
In this interview, we talk about her experiences of withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects , published in 2022 which is one of the first books on antidepressant withdrawal to make it to the mass market. But you capture it beautifully in the book. James Moore: Brooke, welcome.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
His most recent book is Madness: A Philosophical Exploration , published by Oxford University Press in 2022. I’m delighted to get to chat with you about your work and your latest book. Moore: I’d like to go on to talk about your 2022 book entitled, Madness: A Philosophical Exploration. James Moore: Justin, welcome.
Critical Psychiatry
DECEMBER 18, 2024
I talked about Jan Foudraine in the first chapter of my edited Critical Psychiatry book. My original idea was that the presentation Foudraine gave at a 2001 Critical Psychiatry Network conference , which I organised, would be included as a chapter in my book. To his surprise, this book became an immediate bestseller.
Critical Psychiatry
NOVEMBER 23, 2024
my comment about the book in a previous post ). As she says, reading the book reminds her of when she first tried to make sense of psychiatry in her training. previous post and my article ) Simon Wessely's description of how he went through this process and was rescued by the book Psychiatry in dissent (1976) by Anthony Clare.
Mad in America
JANUARY 4, 2024
T he title of this article is from Jaakko Seikkula’s book Dialogue Improves—but Why? ” I read the book last winter, but I’ve skimmed through it again a bit now and thought I’d write a few words about it. One subheading in chapter seven: “Psychological behavior is part of dialogue, not pathology.”
Critical Psychiatry
OCTOBER 3, 2024
The book for which it was written has now been published: Mad Studies Reader , edited by Brad Lewis (who has written a guest post for this blog) et al. Ive mentioned before the chapter written by key members involved in the foundation of the Critical Psychiatry Network (see previous post ).
Critical Psychiatry
JANUARY 18, 2025
Jo Moncrieff in her new book Chemically imbalanced (see eg. previous post ) discusses Peter Kramers 1993 book Listening to Prozac (see Wikipedia entry ), which I mentioned in a previous post. But she also uses Kramers book to support her speculation that antidepressants reduce peoples emotional sensitivity. previous post ).
Mad in America
AUGUST 7, 2024
His latest book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No , describes the harrowing experiences of whistleblowers who expose corruption and malpractice in clinical trials and psychiatric research. Ayurdhi Dhar: Let’s discuss your new book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice.
Mad in America
APRIL 19, 2024
You begin your love for literature with reading: graphic novels, chapter books, anything there is. You find a big box of books in the garage. The way you won’t want to pause your book to use the bathroom or to eat. Eventually, you grow your book collection and writing portfolio. They were your favorite as a kid.
Mad in America
JUNE 26, 2024
On her own and with colleagues, she’s published a wide array of articles and book chapters and co-wrote a self-help book, The Growth Mindset Workbook for Teens. You use a lot of different terms for it in your book, and if you could speak to that a little bit — how significant is it? So I talked about in my book.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Editor’s Note: Over the past several months, Mad in America has published a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. We see the same lies, denial and misleading information about psychiatry everywhere, 7 as illustrated so convincingly in Whitaker’s review of Insel’s book. Nothing changed, however.
Critical Psychiatry
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Hence the controversy created by Joanna Moncrieffs recent book Chemically imbalanced: The making and unmaking of the serotonin myth (see eg. In fact people have often believed the chemical imbalance theory to be proven. They have accepted, even been told, this myth to provide a reason for needing to take their antidepressants.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Reported in 2024, a Book Trust survey found that reading enjoyment declines as children progress through primary school. So, Krishnamurti certainly believed in the sentiment behind the famous quote routinely attributed to him; however, according the Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, he never stated those exact words.
Mad in America
JUNE 4, 2024
I learned of Buck’s life and her book through an obituary in The New York Times. Buck wrote her story at the urging of journalist Hans Krieger, and the book appeared in German under the pseudonym “Sophie Zerchin”—an anagram for the German schizophrenie —in 1990. It’s available at punctum books , as a physical book or a free download.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. In this blog, he discusses withdrawal and how to taper off psychiatric drugs.
Critical Psychiatry
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Elliot Vallenstein's book Blaming the brain was first published in 1998. As the publishers website says (see webpage ), the book sounded a clarion call throughout our culture of quick-fix pharmacology and our increasing reliance on drugs as a cure-all for mental illness.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 5, 2024
Looking at the sky through the opening in the trees, with the yellow pad on my lap, I struggled to begin the book that it would take many years to complete. He was compiling a book featuring writing from an assortment of people from different fields. What happened to me and others like me?
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Her book, published in October by She Writes Press, is a moving and nuanced portrait filled with love and grief, candor, and complexity. The book covers so much ground, so many years: your sister’s entire life, your relationship with her, the family dynamics. They talked about poetry, and books, and ideas. I have them.
Mad in America
MARCH 29, 2024
T here are books that change your life… drastically, whether you want to or not. ’ I was a holistic psychiatrist and wanted to offer the best services to my clients, but this book made me realize that in spite of, or because of my best intentions and efforts, I was keeping my clients trapped in the client role.
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