50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health (Yale University Press Health Wellness) ebook

by Dr. James Whitney Hicks M.D.

Dr. James Whitney Hicks M.D. Psychology and Counseling English

50 Signs of Mental Illnes. has been added to your Basket. This compelling book introduces a wide range of psychiatric symptoms and their treatments. Dr. Hicks has that rare talent of being able to explain complex topics in a straightforward manner so that all can learn.

50 Signs of Mental Illnes. Written for anyone concerned about his or her own mental health or about symptoms observed in family members or close friends, the book is packed with useful and reassuring information. It is both easy to read and difficult to put down. Beyond being well written, this book lends itself to those who like to skim as well as those who prefer to read from cover to cover.

50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health is a 2005 book by psychiatrist James Whitney Hicks published by Yale University Press.

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Yale University Press Health & Wellness. James Whitney Hicks, . James Hicks has used this fact to devise an exceptionally practical guide for anyone struggling with the questions of mental illness. is director of clinical services at the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center in New York City. He is also assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University. NYU School of Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center, and NAMI Board of Directors. Hicks has done what many doctors are afraid to do: tossed aside the jargon and described in everyday terms what mental illness looks and feels like.

A Guide to Understanding Mental Health Selected as a 2007 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries. Sales Restrictions: For sale in North America only.

A Guide to Understanding Mental Health. This book provides authoritative yet easy-to-understand explanations for a wide range of symptoms, including anxiety, mood swings, cravings, memory loss, and self-esteem problems. Hicks also offers treatment and coping strategies. Most important, the book clearly defines the line between behaviors that are normal (if troublesome) and those that require professional attention. Selected as a 2007 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries.

James W. Hicks, a highly regarded psychiatrist with extensive clinical experience, begins each topic with a vignette to illustrate the symptom. He explains how a specific sign can be caused by several different illnesses and may even be a normal response to stress. Nearly one in three individuals experiences psychiatric symptoms each year. This book clarifies the significance of such signs and guides its readers toward appropriate treatment choices

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This compelling book introduces a wide range of psychiatric symptoms and their treatments. Written for anyone concerned about his or her own mental health or about symptoms observed in family members or close friends, the book is packed with useful and reassuring information. It is both easy to read and difficult to put down.

Buridora

I've probaby checked this out of the local public library at least eight times. When you do something like that, it's time to just buy the book. I like this book's straightforward, simple approach - and one that doesn't insult your intelligence or talk down to you. The chapters on jealousy and bipolar disorder are especially well-written. Get this if you need an all-purpose guide to mental illness.

Vivados

Excellent resource. Easy-to-read and reliable information.

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Arlelond

"50 Signs of Mental Illness" is clear, cogent, compelling and compassionate. I highly recommend this book. It will be helpful to those with questions concerning themselves as well as those they care about. Dr. Hicks has that rare talent of being able to explain complex topics in a straightforward manner so that all can learn. Beyond being well written, this book lends itself to those who like to skim as well as those who prefer to read from cover to cover. Finally, this is an important contribution to the literature on mental health. Michele N. Beier, Attorney and Certified Bioethicist

Funny duck

not informative. very light book. Returned it.

Zepavitta

nice... I liked the book I love learning about mental illnesses I really liked it

Burking

Societies in which experts think they are responsible for social order behavior and maintaining a highly productive level of hostilities two thousand years after Greeks, Romans, and the Hebrew scholars with scriptural brain skewers put man a little lower than the angels, dimorphism special weapons have adopted the idea of mental illness as a concept to isolate individuals, cults, and families engaged in polygamy from the main stream of mega-death entertainment end of life on earth wave of excitement. This like it or lump it scheme has come to my attention as the potential restraining order to keep lurking from turning into stalking by electronic pussy willow slash and churn.

In an adversary situation, whenever I am criticized I strike back against the entire world to avoid ad hominem breaks with anything less than the entire system in the concept as a scheme without which anything human lacks meaning. A character described as being grandiose in this book has egocentric defense mechanisms, and manic behavior acts like a famous person. My shrink told me I was the most intelligent person he ever met, so when a nurse asked me about having grandiose thoughts, I felt intrusively that she was not supporting any of my reasons for being there. It was easy for me the think a medical establishment exists to suck up the insurance coverage of a risk pool, even if they have to use Jesus persaflage identity theft to do it. In late 1994 I had been tapering off lithium medication after a few years of avoiding episodes in which I could obviously outsmart the world, but my shrink thought if I had a great deal of money I would just be considered eccentric. Only people who have to work for a living would become as intricate in thinking like a pop star as my memory replacing personal interaction with musically inspired ideology having nothing up my sleeve like Rocky and moosejaw taking on a world of regimentation for uniformity. I would rather be a genius than get stuck in an Enron room for some medical system future of wheat dementia.

If this book better ruled out signs of other medical problems first then I would like it better. Yes the book is ok if you really have a mental illness and not low vitamin B12 or low T, etc., which cause similar symptoms.

Unfortunately in the real world I read this book and others like it when doctors convinced me that I had Bipolar Disorder. Years later I finally had blood tests that showed B12 and testosterone levels 1/3 below the normal minimum. Doctors prescribed supplements and I am now basically cured of what now appears to have been a false mental illness diagnosis. Or at least symptoms of these other medical problems were missed because they were similar to the symptoms of Bipolar Disorder and other mental illness.

So if the book was revised to better stress blood work and tests for other medical causes then I would rate it better. A false diagnosis is costly when your real condition gets worse so it is best to rule out other causes at the start.