Download or read book Dear Psychiatrist written by Jennie Roberts and published by James Clarke & Co.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom was born with Asperger (or Asperger's) Syndrome, a form of Autism that affects both mental and physical development. He changed from a happy, achieving nine-year-old to an uncommunicative adolescent requiring psychiatric treatment after years of bullying by his peers because he was different. A minor shoplifting offence and the resulting court case brought the psychiatrist's report to the attention of Tom's parents. Failing to recognise bullying as a probable cause for Tom's behaviour it blamed instead his parents for "poor understanding of their son's limitations, consequently they have placed unrealistic expectations upon him leading to his deep sense of failure." Very alarmed by this, the parents were further disturbed on being refused a meeting with the psychiatrist to discuss their concerns, a major result of which was the mother's decision to write this book. Written as a series of letters (mainly fictional to highlight the author's frustrations) to Tom's psychiatrist, Dear Psychiatrist is Jennie Robert's perspective on her son's case history; a perspective that details not only the difficulties that Tom suffered through his handicap, but also the extra (and perhaps more disabling) difficulties imposed by the bullying and the unhelpful attitudes encountered from some members of the teaching, medical, psychological and psychiatric professions. This intensely moving mother's account of the childhood and adolescence of her handicapped son is a must read for those working with special needs children and their families, or for parents in the same position as the author. Having first-hand experience, Jennie Roberts recognises that parents should be considered a valuable and indeed, vital source of information when any sort of discussion about their child takes place. In her Foreword, Baroness Warnock's concluding hope is that "The book should be compulsory reading for anyone entering training whether as a teacher, doctor, social worker, psychologist or psychiatrist". It is no less an essential source of support for parents who are having difficulties with the professional help they have received. These sentiments are given poignant endorsement by the tragic circumstance of Tom's suicide in November 1994, his final letter making it clear that his unhappy school experience was a major contributory factor. Read the Foreword by Baroness Mary Warnock here. Read the Introduction here.
Download or read book Dear Luise written by Dorrit Cato Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unintended event." This was the bland phrase used to describe Luise's sudden death in the psychiatric ward at Amager Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was 32. "Dear Luise" is a mother's deeply personal account of her struggle to ensure her daughter's survival through 20 years of treatment in the Danish mental health system. It is an alarming - and thoroughly documented - expose of the abject failure of the medication-based treatment regimen routinely imposed on vulnerable psychiatric patients. This book is also a poignant tale of love and hope, brimming with tender memories of the creativity, originality and wry humor of a very capable, intelligent young woman. Behind Luise's ultimate fate we see the smug certainty of mental health professionals, both doctors and caregivers, and the concomitant dehumanization of their patients through indifference, harassment, coercion and the use of force. In this tragic case, the mother's investigation also reveals a shocking trail of incompetence and dishonesty - repeated misdiagnosis, professional collusion, "missing" official records, falsified hospital charts, victim-blaming, and a complete lack of accountability. Her mother's ill-fated trust in Denmark's healthcare system led an 11-year-old girl with misunderstood adjustment problems into a doctor-mandated drug hell. First she was wrongly diagnosed and dosed with powerful anti-epilepsy medicine. Then the severe side-effects were treated with antipsychotics that caused even more serious adverse reactions, both mental and physical. Complaints from mother and daughter ran into a stone wall, and all meaningful dialogue was cut short. The system had only one response - increase the medication. Luise's tragedy is far from unique in Denmark - or indeed any other "advanced" industrialized country. Towards the end of her life she knew what was happening to her. Luise told her mother: "On my gravestone I want it to say that it was the medicine that killed me."
Download or read book Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st Century written by Angus J. Cleghorn and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a series of major collections of posthumous writings by Elizabeth Bishop--one of the most widely read and discussed poets of the twentieth century--have been published, profoundly affecting how we look at her life and work. The hundreds of letters, poems, and other writings in these volumes have expanded Bishop's published work by well over a thousand pages and placed before the public a "new" Bishop whose complexity was previously familiar to only a small circle of scholars and devoted readers. This collection of essays by many of the leading figures in Bishop studies provides a deep and multifaceted account of the impact of these new editions and how they both enlarge and complicate our understanding of Bishop as a cultural icon. Contributors: Charles Berger, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville * Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, University of Notre Dame * Angus Cleghorn, Seneca College * Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield * Richard Flynn, Georgia Southern University * Lorrie Goldensohn * Jeffrey Gray, Seton Hall University * Bethany Hicok, Westminster College * George Lensing, University of North Carolina * Carmen L. Oliveira * Barbara Page, Vassar College * Christina Pugh, University of Illinois at Chicago * Francesco Rognoni, Catholic University in Milan * Peggy Samuels, Drew University * Lloyd Schwartz, University of Massachusetts, Boston * Thomas Travisano, Hartwick College * Heather Treseler, Worcester State University * Gillian White, University of Michigan
Download or read book The Scandalous Ecstasies of the Statuesque Sensationalists written by Leith Lachlan Wulf and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the faded Australian 1960s girly-pop idol Jill St. Brandelis accepts the flirty-eyed advances of a passionate London fan, tabloid dishonor and two fatalities are the shocking upshot of their wretched romantic misadventure. The outrageous particulars behind the appallingly sensationalist tabloid headlines are blushingly recounted in candid detail by Jills still remarkably beautiful big sister, the fabled 1960s pop culture icon Pill Strathspey.
Download or read book Schrodinger s Cat Trilogy written by Robert A. Wilson and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to the cult classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy, this is an epic fantasy that offers a twisted look at our modern-day world--a reality that exists in another dimension of time and space that may be closer than we think.
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Download or read book What to Do Till the Psychiatrist Comes written by Norman Anthony and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bullying written by Aidan Macfarlane and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over a million copies sold worldwide and translated into 22languages, the Health Freak books have been a global publishing phenomenon,bringing both fun and vital health education to teenagers the world over.Health Freak: Bullying has the popular question-and-answer format of the HealthFreak series (Sex, Drugs), based on genuine questions emailed by kids to theauthors' award-winning health advice website (teenagehealthfreak.org). Frank,down-to-earth answers are given by the authors, both of whom are doctorsspecializing in teenage health issues.Bullying is a perennial and highly damaging problem affecting many thousands ofchildren - boys and girls of all ages. It is a matter of desperate concern forthose affected and for their parents and teachers, and is among the issues mostfrequently raised by kids in their emails to the authors' website. Bullying iscurrently much in the media spotlight and the target in the UK of a majorgovernment-sponsored initiative. It is also prominent within the UK NationalCurriculum (in the guidelines for PSHE at KS2 and KS3).BLAIDAN MACFARLANE ran the Child and Adolescent Health services for theOxfordshire Health Authority. He is now an international freelance consultant inchild and adolescent health.BLANN McPHERSON is a general practitioner with extensive experience of youngpeople and their problems, and a lecturer in the Department of Primary HealthCare at the University of Oxford.Teenage Health Freak titles include: The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak; TheDiary of the Other Health Freak; RU a Teenage Health Freak?; Health Freak: Sex;Health Freak: Drugs. The authors' other books include Mum I Feel Funny (whichwon the Times Education Supplement Information Book Award), Me and My Mates, TheVirgin Now Boarding, and Fresher Pressure. Most recently they published a bookfor parents about the teenage years called Teenagers: the agony, the ecstasy,the answers.
Download or read book Maladaptive Coping Mechanisms written by Ashwath Narayan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-05-12 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N/A
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Download or read book Two Years of Trump on the Psychiatrist s Couch written by Dr David Laing Dawson and published by Bridgeross Communications. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Donald Trump in a series of blog posts by Canadian psychiatrist David Laing Dawson.
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