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NEW Carers Expert- By Experience sister site This site will be where you will find carers stories. It is new at the moment and will be added to shortly
Looking for a book? www.abebooks.com
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Georgina Wakefield Books www.georginawakefield.co.uk This site is dedicated to Georgina’s son who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia, containing books and poems written by Georgina. |
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BOOK for Carers: The
Selfish Pigs Guide To Caring The Selfish pig’s guide to caring. By Hugh Marriott: Of course, you’re not really a selfish pig at all, but this book is for ordinary people, ...I am in the middle of reading this book myself it is a very down to earth book. Funny in parts but also explains a lot of things that carers need to know. If yours or the person you care for situation gets you down at times this book can also be a real mood lifter for carers. And very insightful for professionals to read. Meet the Author http://www.meettheauthor.co.uk/bookbites/1178.html Buy the book: http://www.polperropress.co.uk/viewbook.php?id=6 Also available post free www.guardian.co.uk/bookshop just search by typing in the title of the book
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The Carers Perspective on Mental illness in the Family By Margaret Branch Published in July 2007 Price £5 and £2 for Carers only. This is an important book written from the perspective of the Carer as a family member, where another member suffers from a mental illness. When illness becomes apparent it is difficult to find anyone to help! This book aims to guide the Carer through the available services and what treatments might be available. Copies are available from either: Margaret Branch on 01392 279617 Or at MIND in Exeter at 59 Magdalen St, Exeter EX2 4HY From Mel Chamberlain on 01392 204498 |
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NEW Gain Control of Mental Illness and Prevent Relapse by Ivanka Palmer An essential self-help manual for families and professionals alike Gain Control of Mental Illness provides a wide overview of all aspects which are part of, and closely associated with, Mental Illness (MI). The medical components and projection of MI, the ill person's struggles with their illness, and other family member's experiences and struggles alike. These three aspects are essential for families to be familiar with in order to understand their ill person, cope better with MI themselves and at the same time gain some control that has been taken away from them. By utilising and providing problem solving methods and a solution focused approach, this book demonstrates how to drastically reduce stress, the unpleasant confrontations and arguments that often are a daily occurrence and associated with MI. To order go to: http://www.brolgapublishing.com.au/title.php?Bn=QW5FbmNvZGVkU3RyaW5nT2ZCcm9sZ2FQdWJsaXNoaW5nXzY5 |
| Stages of Schizophrenia (The) By Mark Ellerby ISBN: 1904697755 Link download Stages of Schizophrenia follow up e-book Part 2 & 3 is now available from |
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A father's view of mental illness Journalist Pete Earley drew on personal experience in writing "Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness." http://www.roanoke.com/extra/wb/wb/xp-112341Read the first chapter of the book... http://www.peteearley.com/books/crazychapter.html
Book review of interest: Review - Demystifying Therapy by Ernesto SpinelliPCCS Books, 1994. Review by Laura Cook: Although first published in 1994, Ernesto Spinelli's Demystifying Therapy remains relevant to the current issue of statutory regulation in psychotherapy. His book focuses upon the power in the therapeutic relationship, and how this is reinforced by theory, politics and the current intellectual climate. http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4108&cn=397 Second Nature Brain Science and Human Knowledge http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net:80/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4113&cn=396 Unstrange Minds Remapping the World of Autism http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4111&cn=165
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4109&cn=159 |
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A tale of ordinary madness: the pressure of life with dadAs a child, Martin Townsend lived with the chaotic highs and lows of his father's manic depression. On the eve of the second reading of a controversial mental health bill, he recalls his family's struggle to cope with the illness within the man they loved http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,,2057459,00.html "My reasons for writing the book were not to wallow in my family's discomfort or even to provide an alternative view of mental health in a society still transfixed by images of drooling Bedlamites - though I obviously hope it does. I wrote it, above all, to demonstrate the peculiar indestructibility of father-son relationships and to celebrate my father's life and my mother's courage. I wanted to put on record an ordinary couple's extraordinary resilience for the benefit of all those who have mental illness as the third partner in their marriage - an unwanted member of the family." The Father I had Martin Townsend ISBN : 9780593057568 |
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NEW 'The Emotionally Abusive Relationship' ' How to stop being abused and how to stop abusing' by Beverly Engel. It has a detailed section on 'when partners have a personality disorder’
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www.thecairn.com Two books one story by a mother (Carer) and daughter, of their different perspective of recovery from a mental health problem
The Cairn,
Brincliffe, Dhuhill Drive West, Helensburgh G84 9AW Scotland
www.thecairn.com enquiries
– info@thecairn.com
Tel: 01436 676217From both patient and carer - rare and
unusual insight into mental illness
Two Women – One Journey of Recovery –
Two Perspectives
The Naked Bird Watcher ‘
‘ To Walk on Eggshells’
Suzy Johnston ISBN 0954809203 Jean Johnston
You may have been watching a loved one struggle with mental illness. If you have ever wondered what they were actually thinking, or how they were really feeling, this book might give you some insight. If you have been battling mental illness yourself, it may sound comfortingly familiar. The book details my experience with the sudden onset of mental illness and my subsequent diagnosis of first paranoid schizophrenia and later bipolar disorder. A brutally honest account of my first two episodes, it recites in detail my initial slow insidious decline into paranoia, and the unexpected manifestation of symptoms and the creativity of thought that characterised my second episode. My intention is to inform, enlighten and to seek to reduce some of the stigma that currently still surrounds mental illness which causes so many to keep their diagnoses a secret. The title of the book is "Depressed Paranoid Schizophrenic Maniac - A Sane Person's Experience with Mental Illness" by Michelle Cann. It is available from Trafford Publishing for US$15.50 each. You may call toll free 1 888 232 4444 (Canada and USA only) or 250 383 6864, or order online at www.trafford.com or email orders@trafford.com. |
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Suicide Junkie www.swestwood.com The book deals with my struggle with body dysmorphic disorder along with borderline personality disorder and depression. |
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Anger Management The Explosive Child by Dr Ross Greene? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Explosive-Child-Understanding-Frustrated-Chronically/dp/006077939X/sr=1-1/qi Follow on Book |
| "Emotional Geology" and is by Linda Gillard ISBN 1-905175-07-8. You can read about it on http://www.transita.co.uk Linda's website www.lindagillard.co.uk |
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Living
Without Marbles By
Clare Hill ISBN
– 1-904697-50-X Available
to download from –
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Defining Moment http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,,1755950,00.html |
| www.louisedean.com Louise Dean's first book, 'Becoming Strangers' was named as one of the top 5 fiction books of 2004 by The Observer. It won the Society of Authors Betty Trask Prize for best first novel and was nominated for the Booker longlist, and for The Guardian First Book Award. Louise's second book, 'This Human Season' - published in May 2005 |
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recovery stories: Peter Beresford's
journey made be read at: |
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“Ambiguous Loss” (learning to live with unresolved grief). by Pauline Boss from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/102-6803320-9747346?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Pauline+Boss&Go.x=8&Go.y=10Recommended by a carer When ***** was “missing” for 8 months, I searched high and low for something to help me cope with the loss and I found a book called Ambiguous Loss (learning to live with unresolved grief). It is written by Pauline Boss and is an American publication by Harvard University Press. It cost about £10 from Amazon. I have found it very useful and it has become one of my “bibles” which I turn to when I am feeling upset as I did a few weeks ago after ***** change in attitude. Admittedly there is not much about mental health issues though she refers to it but she writes more about Alzheimer’s. And of course people who go missing, sometimes for ever.
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PAST CARING: by Audrey Jenkinson. Actress Audrey Jenkinson was starring in a BBC television series when she put her career on hold and returned home to Edinburgh to care for her mother suffering from a stroke and her father with cancer. In Past Caring, she describes how she tried to cope with her parents’ deaths and recalls the ‘void’ she felt at the time: “I wondered how others coped in similar situations. When I discovered there were no books on the subject, I decided to write one.” Audrey travelled throughout the UK, interviewing former carers and asking them how they rebuilt their lives. “The stories I heard were both fascinating and uplifting, and I knew other people would find them interesting and helpful.” Past Caring also includes a twelve-step recovery guide for ‘past carers’. http://www.polperropress.co.uk/viewbook.php?id=1 |
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Living Well With Depression and Bipolar Disorder: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know (Harper Collins).
It is the first book on these topics to bring a patient’s perspective to the diagnostic, clinical, and scientific issues. "Yes, we need to listen to the professionals who treat us, but they also need to listen to us. They are the ones with the specialist knowledge, but we are the ones living in our own skins with access to the complete picture." This book is authored by John McManamy who has bipolar disorder. John is responsible for the highly acclaimed McMan's Depression and Bipolar Weekly and www.mcmanweb.com http://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Well-Depression-Bipolar-Disorder/dp/0060897422/ref=sr_11_1/202-1943680-0092625?ie=UTF8 |
| NEW The Secret Life of Manic Depression: Everything You Need to Know About Bipolar Disorder: by the celebrity Stephen Fry. Can be downloaded at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/tv_and_radio/secret_life/secret_life_manic_depression.pdf |
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For children with Aspergers Syndrome: "How do you feel, Thomas?" aimed at ASD kids (see link below) http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Do-You-Feel-Thomas/dp/140522391X/ref=sr_11_1/202-4309298-4456622 |
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New Autism cartoons http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6241733.stm
Monthly international Autism newsletter www.lookingupautism.org |
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| See
"Bipolar Focus" for
Bipolar
Disorder Information
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| Information Booklets -
MIND Mind has a comprehensive range of
booklets available under 'Information' on their website at: http://www.mind.org.uk/index.htm |
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NEW
Here you will find books and information,
orientated to the interests of survivors and (ex-)users of psychiatry, their
friends, supporting relatives and professionals.
http://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com:80/ |
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