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Book A Certain Kind of Sadness

Download or read book A Certain Kind of Sadness written by Jillean McClory and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Certain Kind of Sadness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jillean McClory
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2024-03-26
  • ISBN : 9781990066368
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Certain Kind of Sadness written by Jillean McClory and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan Hillier sat on the cold floor, his body in a constant state of anxiety. There is only one truth, if Rachel Wharton dies, essential parts of me will crawl inside her and die with her. My life will never be the same, and the man I glimpsed in her presence will lose his way without her as his beacon. For years, his long-standing friend to lover hot and cold relationship with Rachel played havoc with Morgan's doubts. Rachel's abandonment issues kicked into high gear every time they hit a challenge. She refused to talk to him and bolted at the sign of trouble. At his sister's wedding, Morgan hits the wall with alien rage and jealousy, taking it out on Rachel in the worst way. The shock and hurt on her face were unforgettable. Now Rachel is in the hospital fighting for her life, and it's his fault. Rachel never saw Morgan so angry, so cold; he humiliated her without scruples. Finding Helen in his hotel room the following day wrecked her, and she ran, becoming a ghost in plain clothes. When Morgan showed up to apologize, Rachel retreated so far into herself; she was incapable of anything other than being a poor slob in love. To make matters worse, her mother's interference and h

Book Poetry Unbound  50 Poems to Open Your World

Download or read book Poetry Unbound 50 Poems to Open Your World written by Pádraig Ó. Tuama and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mesmerizing, magical, deeply moving.” —Elif Shafak Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers immersive reflections on fifty powerful poems. In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama’s appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem’s artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Natasha Trethewey meditates on miscegenation and Mississippi; Raymond Antrobus makes poetry out of the questions shot at him by an immigration officer; Martín Espada mourns his father; Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother’s body; Aimee Nezhukumatathil offers comfort to her child-self. Through these wide-ranging poems, Ó Tuama guides us on an inspiring journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience. For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with poetry but doesn’t know where to start, Poetry Unbound presents a window through which to celebrate the art of being alive.

Book The Loss of Sadness

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  • Author : Allan V. Horwitz
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2007-06-18
  • ISBN : 9780198042693
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Loss of Sadness written by Allan V. Horwitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by a massive upsurge in the consumption of antidepressant medication, widespread screening for depression in clinics and schools, and a push to diagnose depression early, on the basis of just a few symptoms, in order to prevent more severe conditions from developing. In The Loss of Sadness, Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield argue that, while depressive disorder certainly exists and can be a devastating condition warranting medical attention, the apparent epidemic in fact reflects the way the psychiatric profession has understood and reclassified normal human sadness as largely an abnormal experience. With the 1980 publication of the landmark third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), mental health professionals began diagnosing depression based on symptoms--such as depressed mood, loss of appetite, and fatigue--that lasted for at least two weeks. This system is fundamentally flawed, the authors maintain, because it fails to take into account the context in which the symptoms occur. They stress the importance of distinguishing between abnormal reactions due to internal dysfunction and normal sadness brought on by external circumstances. Under the current DSM classification system, however, this distinction is impossible to make, so the expected emotional distress caused by upsetting events-for example, the loss of a job or the end of a relationship- could lead to a mistaken diagnosis of depressive disorder. Indeed, it is this very mistake that lies at the root of the presumed epidemic of major depression in our midst. In telling the story behind this phenomenon, the authors draw on the 2,500-year history of writing about depression, including studies in both the medical and social sciences, to demonstrate why the DSM's diagnosis is so flawed. They also explore why it has achieved almost unshakable currency despite its limitations. Framed within an evolutionary account of human health and disease, The Loss of Sadness presents a fascinating dissection of depression as both a normal and disordered human emotion and a sweeping critique of current psychiatric diagnostic practices. The result is a potent challenge to the diagnostic revolution that began almost thirty years ago in psychiatry and a provocative analysis of one of the most significant mental health issues today.

Book A Secret Sadness

Download or read book A Secret Sadness written by Valerie Whiffen and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the often hidden relationship factors that make women depressed, the secret sadness that can last a lifetime. Whiffen shows readers how interpersonal problems can contribute to depression and how working through these underlying issues can help women heal.

Book Motherhood

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  • Author : Sheila Heti
  • Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
  • Release : 2018-05-01
  • ISBN : 1627790780
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Motherhood written by Sheila Heti and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation. In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti’s intimate and urgent novel considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner, and her duties to her forbearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice. After seeking guidance from philosophy, her body, mysticism, and chance, she discovers her answer much closer to home. Motherhood is a courageous, keenly felt, and starkly original novel that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood, parenthood, and about how—and for whom—to live.

Book The Philosophy of Natural Magic

Download or read book The Philosophy of Natural Magic written by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moving Toward Life

Download or read book Moving Toward Life written by Anna Halprin and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected writings of one of the most influential luminaries of American dance.

Book Occult Philosophy Or Magic

Download or read book Occult Philosophy Or Magic written by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last half of 1509 and the first months of 1510, Cornelius Agrippa, known in his day as a Magician, gathered together all the Mystic lore he had obtained by the energy and ardor of youth and compiled it into the elaborate system of Magic, in three books, known as Occult Philosophy, the first book of which-Natural Magic-constitutes the present volume. Partial List of Contents: Natural Magic; What Magic Is; Four Elements; Three-fold Consideration of Elements; Kinds of Compounds; Occult Virtues of Things; Of the Spirit of the World; How Inferior Things are Subjected to Superior Bodies; What Things are Lunary; What Things are under the power of: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury; What Things are Under the Signs; Of the Union of Mixed Things; Of Bindings; Of Sorceries; Of Perfumes or Suffumigations; Magical Rings; Of Light Colors; Of Divination; Of divers certain Animals; Of Geomancy; Of the Reviving of the Dead; Of Divination by Dreams; Of Madness; Passions of the Mind; Of Speech; Of many Words joined together; Virtue of Writing. (Note: this is the same book as The Philosphy of Natural Magic only it was originally published under both names.) Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book The Moral Psychology of Sadness

Download or read book The Moral Psychology of Sadness written by Anna Gotlib and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers both an introduction to the methods and language of moral psychology as a philosophical field, and to sadness as an emotion.

Book Three Books of Occult Philosophy Or Magic

Download or read book Three Books of Occult Philosophy Or Magic written by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work that influenced Dr. John Dee and many, many other prominent occultists. Agrippa wrote his books in his early twenties, but continually updated and revised them over the following two decades.

Book The Cognitive Content of Literary Art

Download or read book The Cognitive Content of Literary Art written by Bruce Arthur Aune and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sadness or Depression

Download or read book Sadness or Depression written by Jerome C. Wakefield and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and predicts that by 2030 the epidemic of depression raging across the world will be the single biggest contributor to the overall burden of disease of all health conditions. Yet this gloomy picture masks a number of paradoxes concerning the diagnosis and cultural interpretation of depression that appear to challenge the claimed prevalence rates on which it is based. This book’s essays by some of the world’s leading researchers and scholars on depression explores these anomalies in detail from multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives, and in doing so reshapes the debate on the nature of depression that is currently under way in the US and abroad. At the book’s core is the exploration from the multiple perspectives of a key dilemma: is the epidemic of depression real or is it just apparent? In particular, could it be the result of criteria laid down in the official American classification system of mental disorders, the DSM, interacting with cultural changes to reshape our view of melancholy, pathologizing what were formerly normal symptoms of grief or intense sadness? The debate over the DSM's conception of depression has an international relevance, with the WHO’s upcoming revisions to its International Classification of Diseases requiring coordination with the DSM. This collection of perspectives has an unprecedented international dimension, as scholars from Europe and around the world join US academics to explore a central and controversial element of contemporary psychiatric diagnosis - and one that has enormous practical implications for the future of mental health care and how we view our emotions. The book’s accessible essays will make it useful to scholars, practitioners, and students across a wide range of disciplines.

Book Felix Holt  Impressions of Theoprastus Such

Download or read book Felix Holt Impressions of Theoprastus Such written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Works

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Eliot
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1886
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book Works written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daniel Deronda

Download or read book Daniel Deronda written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Felix Holt  Impressions of Theophrastus Such

Download or read book Felix Holt Impressions of Theophrastus Such written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: