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Thursday, July 10. 2008

A few books for families of psychiatric patients

Here's a short list of some of the books I recommend regularly:

Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers

Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind: The Nature of Craving and How to Control It

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder

People of the Lie. (by Scott Peck. It's about sociopaths.)

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Our Essays, Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 14:29 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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I entirely concur with all six choices.
#1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2008-07-10 18:16 (Reply)
oh my gosh, my mom made me read people of the lie when i was 12. i liked the road less traveled much better.
#2 kab on 2008-07-10 18:46 (Reply)
one part of me wants to read the one on schizophrenia, but the other part doesn't.

raz
#3 randazzo53 on 2008-07-10 18:47 (Reply)
Got anything on surviving left-wing, blame-the-man-for-everything, woman-is-the-n****-of-the-world, nut-job marriage counseling? How about some books on nut-job psychiatry in general? Books on how to address "denial is one of the signs, you know" logic? Or perhaps on how I can accept that my denial is one of the signs?
#4 KRW on 2008-07-10 19:49 (Reply)
"Got anything on surviving left-wing, blame-the-man-for-everything, woman-is-the-n****-of-the-world, nut-job marriage counseling?"

God. I went to two of those. If I had said my wife tried to kill me with a knife last night they would have asked why I was trying to limit my wife's self-expression. I could write a book about it called People of the Bone Stupid.

Re: M. Scott Peck - I was rather under the impression he had lost his mind by the time he wrote People of the Lie.
#5 Jephnol (Link) on 2008-07-10 20:56 (Reply)
For years I use to think all people were crazy, and I was normal. Now I know I am crazy, and all people are normal. I haven"t felt better in years. The next time your wife comes at you with a knife, do what I do; come at her with a gun, after all she"s normal, and I'm crazy. Who wears the pants in your house?
#5.1 jappy on 2008-07-10 21:49 (Reply)
Ha ha ha! That's great! : )

I've always worn pants. I don't have a problem with a woman who wants to assert herself, it's just...I won't be anyone's bitch. We've done much better since we gave up the whack-job, liberal feminist, psy/ops therapy and had a few brawls.

The wife with a knife was just a hypothetical situation w/ the anticipated therapeutic response. I thought the hyperbole suited the subject.
#5.1.1 Jephnol (Link) on 2008-07-10 22:24 (Reply)

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