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This is a journey through several bizarre espionage events leading to mental illness and a condition known as bipolar schizoaffective disorder. Her story tells of being betrayed by her lover, suffering public embarrassment at the hands of a liberal professor, and befriended by a KGB agent as well as a man pretending to be an FBI Agent. Following a dubious car crash, her brother-in-law transports her home to the Northwest while questioning her about coworkers' ties to the Trilateral Commission. After receiving psychological treatment, she graduates from Gonzaga University and becomes a stockbroker in Washington, DC where she meets and becomes lovers with a New York Times bestselling author and spy. At twenty-five, she experiences onset of a treatable mental illness but later a series of circumstances causes a manic episode which nearly destroys her life. This story is important in helping to understand a seemingly fragile state that can be altered at any time. Note: This material has been reviewed by the CIA to prevent the disclosure of classified information.
In this marvellous book Nick Clark enlightens us with many an insightful thought. 'Love in the Prison of Psychosis' is an incredibly detailed account on what it's like to live with schizophrenia; Nick leads us through the corridors of his sophisticated mind with a richness of language that's hard to ignore and a pleasure to read. This is a strongly written and cathartic book, one that surprises and informs at every juncture. Interesting, enjoyable and eloquent, it is a pleasure to add this book to Chipmunka's expanding roster.
In “a brilliant antidote to all the…false narratives about pot” (American Thinker), an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug—facts the media have ignored as the United States rushes to legalize cannabis. Recreational marijuana is now legal in nine states. Advocates argue cannabis can help everyone from veterans to cancer sufferers. But legalization has been built on myths—that marijuana arrests fill prisons; that most doctors want to use cannabis as medicine; that it can somehow stem the opiate epidemic; that it is beneficial for mental health. In this meticulously reported book, Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, explodes those myths, explaining that almost no one is in prison for marijuana; a tiny fraction of doctors write most authorizations for medical marijuana, mostly for people who have already used; and marijuana use is linked to opiate and cocaine use. Most of all, THC—the chemical in marijuana responsible for the drug’s high—can cause psychotic episodes. “Alex Berenson has a reporter’s tenacity, a novelist’s imagination, and an outsider’s knack for asking intemperate questions” (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker), as he ranges from the London institute that is home to the scientists who helped prove the cannabis-psychosis link to the Colorado prison where a man now serves a thirty-year sentence after eating a THC-laced candy bar and killing his wife. He sticks to the facts, and they are devastating. With the US already gripped by one drug epidemic, Tell Your Children is a “well-written treatise” (Publishers Weekly) that “takes a sledgehammer to the promised benefits of marijuana legalization, and cannabis enthusiasts are not going to like it one bit” (Mother Jones).
This book intends to harvest insights from the discipline of Psychology, in its broad understanding, for application to International Relations. Although Psychology offers an abundance of theories that are useful for this purpose, they have so far remained largely untapped. In chapters on conflict, hegemony, terrorism, mental health, global consciousness, and peace proposals, Byer provides a synthesis of these two complimentary disciplines. This innovative volume presents the first contribution to the new discipline of International Political Psychology.
The second of three prequels featuring Henry Shaw, USMC, Terry Jones, CIA and Peter Dawnosh, Royal Marine Commandos. Beginning with a further insight into the wartime experiences of Henry's father, Dwight Shaw, this time as a Major in the 31st Infantry Regiment at Chosin Reservoir in November 1950. In South Vietnam, 2Lt Henry Shaw, USMC, an advisor assigned to a Firebase Zara, close to the border in Quang Tri Province. Henry will not compromise in terms of honour and integrity and this brings him into conflict with the commander of the ARVN special forces for the province. In Saigon, Terry Jones prepares for his part in the coup to overthrow President Diem, but there is a traitor at work, either in the US Embassy, or CIA Station, Saigon. Megan Grainger-McVanie, a CIA operative with a near-genius IQ, uses her cover as Bethany Robertson, an air hostess with loose morals, to uncover the traitor, but is the beautiful Megan on the edge of a mental breakdown?
“Gary Greenberg has become the Dante of our psychiatric age, and the DSM-5 is his Inferno.” —Errol Morris Since its debut in 1952, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has set down the “official” view on what constitutes mental illness. Homosexuality, for instance, was a mental illness until 1973. Each revision has created controversy, but the DSM-5 has taken fire for encouraging doctors to diagnose more illnesses—and to prescribe sometimes unnecessary or harmful medications. Respected author and practicing psychotherapist Gary Greenberg embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition, and returned with an unsettling tale. Exposing the deeply flawed process behind the DSM-5’s compilation, The Book of Woe reveals how the manual turns suffering into a commodity—and made the APA its own biggest beneficiary.
The insight a patient shares into their own psychosis is fundamental to their condition - it goes to the heart of what we understand 'madness' to be. Can a person be expected to accept treatment for a condition that they deny they have? Can a person be held responsible for their actions if those actions are inspired by their own unique perceptions and beliefs - beliefs that no-one else shares? The topic of insight in schizophrenia and related disorders has become a major focus of research in psychiatry and psychology. It has important clinical implications in terms of outcome, treatment adherence, competence, and forensic issues.
The Content of the Psychosis (Der Inhalt der Psychose) is a 1908 essay where Jung continued his exploration into the realm of psychosis, building upon his earlier studies, including his investigations into dementia praecox (what is now known as schizophrenia). In this essay, he explores Nature of Psychosis, Comparison with Personal Experiences and an early model of the Collective Unconscious, an idea which he developed from Schopenhauer's understanding of the subconscious. Jung attempted to explore and understand the underlying psychic content that surfaces during psychotic episodes. He was keenly interested in the images, symbols, and narratives that emerged during these periods. Jung posited that the manifestations of psychosis were not merely random or nonsensical, but they had roots in the individual's personal experiences and the deeper collective unconscious. Even though the term "collective unconscious" and its detailed exploration would come later in Jung's career, the foundational ideas can be traced back to works like this. Jung observed recurrent motifs and symbols in the psychotic content of different individuals, suggesting a shared or collective psychic substrate. Building on his complex theory, where he begins to diverge from Freudian Orthodoxy, Jung explored how certain complexes might play a role in the development or manifestation of psychotic episodes. This edition is a new translation from the original German manuscript with an Afterword by the Translator, a philosophic index of Jung's terminology and a timeline of his life and works. Jung suggests that psychotic symptoms are not merely random or meaningless but are deeply embedded in the personal unconscious and, to some extent, the collective unconscious. This idea reflects his early divergence from Freudian psychoanalysis, as he began to emphasize the symbolic and collective aspects of unconscious life rather than focusing exclusively on personal childhood experiences or sexual repression. In "The Content of the Psychosis," Jung highlights the importance of examining the content and nature of the hallucinations, delusions, and symbolic patterns that emerge during psychotic episodes, suggesting that they have roots in the patient's psychological and emotional life. Jung's theory that psychotic experiences can contain meaningful psychic content was groundbreaking because it proposed that the fragmentation of consciousness in psychosis could provide insights into both the individual psyche and the collective human experience. He observed that certain recurring symbols and themes in psychotic content often reflected universal archetypes—symbols that resonate across different cultures and histories—thus paving the way for his later development of the theory of the collective unconscious.
This report provides an overview of the current state of knowledge about why some people hear voices, experience paranoia or have other experiences seen as 'psychosis'. It also describes what can help. In clinical language, the report concerns the 'causes and treatment of schizophrenia and other psychoses'. In recent years we have made huge progress in understanding the psychology of what had previously often been thought of as a largely biological problem, an illness. Much has been written about the biological aspects: this report aims to redress the balance by concentrating on the psychological and social aspects, both in terms of how we understand these experiences and also what can help when they become distressing. We hope that this report will contribute to a fundamental change that is already underway in how we as a society think about and offer help for 'psychosis' and 'schizophrenia'. For example, we hope that in future services will no longer insist that service users accept one particular view of their problem, namely the traditional view that they have an illness which needs to be treated primarily by medication. The report is intended as a resource for people who work in mental health services, people who use them and their friends and relatives, to help ensure that their conversations are as well informed and as useful as possible. It also contains vital information for those responsible for commissioning and designing both services and professional training, as well as for journalists and policy-makers. We hope that it will help to change the way that we as a society think about not only psychosis but also the other kinds of distress that are sometimes called mental illness. This report was written by a working party mainly comprised of clinical psychologists drawn from the NHS and universities, and brought together by their professional body, the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology. This report draws on and updates an earlier one, Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Psychotic Experiences, which was published in 2000 and was widely read and cited. The contributors are leading experts and researchers in the field; a full listing with affiliations is given at the end of the report. More than a quarter of the contributors are experts by experience - people who have themselves heard voices, experienced paranoia or received diagnoses such as psychosis or schizophrenia. At the end of the report there is an extensive list of websites, books and other resources that readers might find useful, together with list of the academic research and other literature that the report draws on.