Product Description: This book explores the changing nature of party competition in four West European countries. It pays special attention to how different ideological positions give rise to contradictory cues when parties engage with atypical election issues like the EU and immigration.

Product Description: In the past few decades, awareness of bipolar disorder has significantly increased, but understanding of the condition remains vague for most of the general public. Though the term itself is relatively recent, the condition has affected individuals for centuries—and no more profoundly than in the arts...read more

Product Description: Over the past few decades, psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry have been steadily stepping back from a key role in the understanding and treatment of depressive disorders. This book investigates the basis for such retreat by delving into the history of medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature...read more

People with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorders have a serious mental illness that primarily affects their intimate, personal, and family relationships. Often they appear to be normally functioning at work and in public interactions, and Narcissists may even be highly effective, in the short term, in some work or social situations. However, in intimate relationships, they can be emotional, aggressive, demeaning, illogical, paranoid, accusing, and controlling—in the extreme. Their ability to function normally or pleasantly can suddenly change in an instant, like flipping a switch. These negative behaviors don’t happen once in a while, they happen almost continuously in their intimate relationships and most often, and especially with their Caretaker family member.Here, Margalis Fjelstad describes how people get into a Caretaker role with a Borderline or Narcissist, and how they can get out. Caretakers give up their sense of self to become who and what the Borderline or Narcissist needs them to be. This compromises the Caretaker’s self-esteem, distorts their thinking processes, and locks them into a Victim-Persecutor-Rescuer pattern with the Borderline or Narcissist. The book looks at the underlying rules and expectations in these relationships and shows Caretaker’s how to move themselves out of these rigid interactions and into a healthier, more productive, and positive lifestyle—with or without the Borderline/Narcissistic partner or family member. It describes how to get out of destructive interactions with the Borderline or Narcissist and how to take new, more effective actions to focus on personal wants, needs, and life goals while allowing the Borderline or Narcissist to take care of themselves. It presents a realistic, yet compassionate, attitude toward the self-destructive nature of these relationships, and gives real life examples of how individuals have let go of their Caretaker behaviors with creative and effective solutions.

Product Description: Coming to terms with dementia is one of the great challenges of our time. This volume of new interdisciplinary essays by internationally established scholars offers new ways of understanding and dealing with it. It explores views of dementia that go beyond the idea of loss, and rather envisions it as multilayered transformation and change of personhood and identity, and as development that mostly is socially shared with others...read more

Product Description: an anthology of poems about mental health and abuse

Product Description: A seminal book in the critical psychology movement in the UK, and still considered the text for critical studies in mental health. In an attempt to develop a more effective, respectful and humane mental health system, 23 contributors present a critical, strident, scholarly, personal, moving and ultimately hopeful critique of current psychiatric systems...read more

Product Description: The Screening and Assessment curriculum helps clinicians detect, identify, classify, and monitor changes in co-occurring disorders. Screening measures for the most common psychiatric disorders and clinical assessment forms are included on the accompanying CD-ROM...read more

Product Description: A collection of unmediated, personal narratives from those with firsthand experience of suicide. Includes accounts from service users, carers, and survivors.

Product Description: A Guide for Living with Co-occurring Disorders educates clients, families, and clinicians on the history, challenges, and most effective treatments for co-occurring disorders. It offers compelling interviews with clinicians, physicians, and researchers, along with inspiring client testimonials...read more

Companion to 'This is Madness'. A compassionate and scholarly critique of the treatment of children, government policy, use of anti-depressants and other areas fundamental to mental health services. Contains views of service users and professionals.

Product Description: These stories of direct experience of self-harm will benefit those interested in narrative enquiry, or studying and practising in the field of mental health. Too often, our understanding limited to concepts of mental illness and disorder, yet these stories demonstrate the survival and recovery of people with rich and diverse lives...read more

Product Description: The Medication Management curriculum is a valuable resource for medical directors and clinicians. It contains vital, current information about medication compliance and other psychological concerns of the patient, issues of differential diagnosis, indications, monitoring symptoms, dosage, tolerance, and withdrawal...read more

Product Description: The Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy curriculum uses the evidence-based practice of CBT to help patients address co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders. The eight modules and handouts cover three main topics: breathing retraining, education about co-occurring disorders, and cognitive restructuring...read more

Product Description: In these hectic, 21st-century times, many worry if they have stepped over the line and acquired a mental disorder. Are you really crazy, or is what troubles you simply a normal variant of universal human behavior? What behavioral traits must you learn to live with? Which can you change? What can your dreams tell you about your behavior? In his basic, down-to-earth primer, board-certified psychologist Dr...read more