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First Person Accounts of Mental Illness and Recovery
by Lecroy, Craig WinstonEdition:
1st
ISBN13:
9780470444528
ISBN10:
0470444525
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
8/1/2012
Publisher(s):
WILEY JOHN & SONS INC
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Summary
Instructors are always searching for relevant case studies that can supplement their course material and increase students' understanding of topics being covered. In First Person Accounts of Mental Illness, case studies of individuals experiencing schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, substance use disorders, and other mental ailments will be provided for students studying the classification and treatment of psychopathology. All of the cases are written from the perspective of the mentally ill individual, providing readers with a unique perspective of the experience of living with a mental disorder.
Author Biography
CRAIG WINSTON LeCROY, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. He also holds an appointment at the University of Arizona in the John & Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, Family Studies and Human Development division. He is the author of over 100 scholarly publications including ten previous books on a wide range of topics, such as mental health, the social work profession, home visitation, and research methodology.
JANE HOLSCHUH, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Social Work at Humboldt State University and currently teaches in the MSW program at Arizona State University.
Table of Contents
| Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Disorders | |
| Schizophrenia The Best Medicine | |
| Recovery as Discovery | |
| Understanding Health as a Continuum | |
| Psychiatry and Oppression: A Personal Account of Compulsory Admission and Medical Treatment | |
| Powerful Choices: Peer Support and Individualized Medication Self-Determination | |
| Schizoaffective Disorder Snapshots: The First Symptoms of Psychosis | |
| Why Having a Mental Illness is not like Having Diabetes (Anonymous..) | |
| Mood Disorders | |
| Depressive Disorders Depression: Disease, Loneliness, Social Isolation, Suicide, Negative Thoughts | |
| My Confession: My Life Had Come to a Stop | |
| Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey through Depression | |
| I Wish I Had Gotten Help Sooner: My Struggle with Postpartum Depression | |
| My Journey Through Postpartum Depression | |
| Bipolar Disorder Living with the Dragon: The Long Road to Self-Mangement of Bipolar II | |
| On Madness: A Personal Account of Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder (Anonymous..) | |
| Random Scribblings on Bipolar Disorder | |
| Being Bipolar: Living on Both Sides of the Coin | |
| Anxiety Disorders | |
| Panic Disorder You have anxiety? | |
| Susan's Story | |
| Phobias On the Outside Looking In | |
| Mysophobia | |
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Flux | |
| Rituals, Routines, and Recovery: Living with OCD | |
| "It'll be Okay": How I kept Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) from Ruining my Life | |
| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Emotional Triangle | |
| Panic, Anxiety, PTSD, and My Experiences of Healing Through Multiple Avenues of Psychotherapy | |
| The Demons of War are Persistent: A Personal Story of Prolonged PSTD | |
| Personality Disorders | |
| My Path to Recovery | |
| A "Classic" Case of Borderline Personality Disorder | |
| Loud in the House of Myself | |
| Substance-Related Disorders | |
| Goodbye Johnny Walker | |
| Untitled | |
| A Nurse's Journey through Loss, Addiction, and Recovery | |
| Eating Disorders | |
| Dying by Inches | |
| Big Little | |
| Binging and Purging to Stay Alive (Anonymous) | |
| Life with an Eating Disorder | |
| Impulse Control Disorders | |
| The Numbers of My Obsession | |
| Memoirs of a Compulsive Firesetter | |
| Dan's Story (Anonymous) | |
| Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders | |
| Before it is Too Late | |
| Poor Memory: A Case Report | |
| Parkinson's: A Patient's View | |
| Somatoform and Factitious Disorders | |
| A Psychosomatic Study of Myself | |
| Bigorexia: Bodybuilding & Muscle Dysmorphia (Anonymous) | |
| Hypochondria | |
| Dissociative Disorders | |
| Coping Strategies | |
| Family Talk | |
| Fractured Mind, One Heart? | |
| Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders | |
| Sexual Pain Disorders Vaginismus: The Blessing of Botox | |
| The Armed Robbery Orgasm: A Lovemap Autobiography of Masochism | |
| Gender Identity Disorders A Rose in Bloom | |
| Time for a Good Transgender Story | |
| Sleep Disorders | |
| An Insomniac's Slant on Sleep | |
| My Story of Narcolepsy | |
| Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence | |
| Pervasive Developmental Disorders Communication Impairment | |
| Alien: A Story of Asperger's Syndrome | |
| The Experience of Infantile Autism | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | |
| The Only Me That We Have Ever Known | |
| Tic Disorders The Unwelcome Companion | |
| Searching for Answers | |
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