Brain Music/Pop Psychology/Some Good Psych Reads
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97913&page=1
Scientists Create Lullabies From Brain Waves
By playing their own "brain music" back to them, researchers were able to get persons with sleeping disorders to fall asleep more quickly, and to sleep more soundly, according to psychiatrist Leonid Kayumov, director of the clinic.
Of course, this "music," which consists of an audible "printout" of sleep-inducing brain waves, doesn't exactly sound like Barry Manilow, and you can't buy it at your local record store.
Now that's what I need to help me fall asleep...
http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&category=Local%20News&prid=10210
Psychologists blast Rush Limbaugh for mocking traumatized Kerry voters
Post Election Selection Trauma is a real problem, Florida clinicians say
I just saw this in one of the LJ psychology communities. I am not a fan of Rush Limbaugh by any stretch of the imagination. But PEST qualifies as a subset of posttraumatic stress disorder? Come on. This is why people don't take psychology seriously. May God preserve my profession from quackery. Grrr.
AUTHORS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
I have found that some of the best books about psychiatric illnesses are those written by people who are themselves suffering from them. None of these books are for the faint of heart, as their brutal honesty shows the ugly nature of thoughts from an unstable mind. For those without mental illness, they offer an eye-opening inside look at what living with mental illness is like. For those with mental illness, these accounts are proof that there are others who know exactly what they are going through.
I just finished reading the amazing book, The Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl by Marguerite Sechehaye. The first half of the book is the story of the French girl Renee, as it was told to her therapist, Sechehaye. It begins when she was five years old, with graphic descriptions of her first auditory and visual hallucinations, and how disturbed she felt when reality seemed to bend right before her eyes. The reader follows her through as her symptoms worsen, she becomes paranoid, and is hospitalized several times. The vivid descriptions are powerful. Eventually, she is treated with psychotherapy (note, no meds), and cured. The second half of the book is by Sechehaye, detailing her psychodynamic interpretation of Renee’s illness.
Some of the other well-known autobiographical books that I’ve read and still own:
1. Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel [Depression]
One of my favorite quotes comes from this book: “Life was one long distraction from the inevitable.”
2. Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface by Martha Manning [Depression]
3. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kayson [Depression]
Yes, I saw the movie. The book was better.
4. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber [Multiple Personality Disorder]
Though I have read this book dozens of times, I have yet to see this movie with Sally Field.
5. Skin Game: A Memoir by Caroline Kettlewell [Self-mutilation]
ABSOLUTELY not for the weak-hearted.
6. Is There No Place on Earth for Me? By Susan Sheehan [Schizophrenia]
A journalist closely follows a schizophrenic woman for a year. I mean very closely. Sleeps in the hospital bed next to hers. You will have a very negative view of the mental health care system when you are finished.
7. The Learning Style of People with Autism, Emergence: Labeled Autistic, and Thinking In Pictures by Temple Grandin [Autism]
This woman never ceases to amaze me. From her website:
http://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html
Scientists Create Lullabies From Brain Waves
By playing their own "brain music" back to them, researchers were able to get persons with sleeping disorders to fall asleep more quickly, and to sleep more soundly, according to psychiatrist Leonid Kayumov, director of the clinic.
Of course, this "music," which consists of an audible "printout" of sleep-inducing brain waves, doesn't exactly sound like Barry Manilow, and you can't buy it at your local record store.
Now that's what I need to help me fall asleep...
http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&category=Local%20News&prid=10210
Psychologists blast Rush Limbaugh for mocking traumatized Kerry voters
Post Election Selection Trauma is a real problem, Florida clinicians say
I just saw this in one of the LJ psychology communities. I am not a fan of Rush Limbaugh by any stretch of the imagination. But PEST qualifies as a subset of posttraumatic stress disorder? Come on. This is why people don't take psychology seriously. May God preserve my profession from quackery. Grrr.
AUTHORS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
I have found that some of the best books about psychiatric illnesses are those written by people who are themselves suffering from them. None of these books are for the faint of heart, as their brutal honesty shows the ugly nature of thoughts from an unstable mind. For those without mental illness, they offer an eye-opening inside look at what living with mental illness is like. For those with mental illness, these accounts are proof that there are others who know exactly what they are going through.
I just finished reading the amazing book, The Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl by Marguerite Sechehaye. The first half of the book is the story of the French girl Renee, as it was told to her therapist, Sechehaye. It begins when she was five years old, with graphic descriptions of her first auditory and visual hallucinations, and how disturbed she felt when reality seemed to bend right before her eyes. The reader follows her through as her symptoms worsen, she becomes paranoid, and is hospitalized several times. The vivid descriptions are powerful. Eventually, she is treated with psychotherapy (note, no meds), and cured. The second half of the book is by Sechehaye, detailing her psychodynamic interpretation of Renee’s illness.
Some of the other well-known autobiographical books that I’ve read and still own:
1. Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel [Depression]
One of my favorite quotes comes from this book: “Life was one long distraction from the inevitable.”
2. Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface by Martha Manning [Depression]
3. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kayson [Depression]
Yes, I saw the movie. The book was better.
4. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber [Multiple Personality Disorder]
Though I have read this book dozens of times, I have yet to see this movie with Sally Field.
5. Skin Game: A Memoir by Caroline Kettlewell [Self-mutilation]
ABSOLUTELY not for the weak-hearted.
6. Is There No Place on Earth for Me? By Susan Sheehan [Schizophrenia]
A journalist closely follows a schizophrenic woman for a year. I mean very closely. Sleeps in the hospital bed next to hers. You will have a very negative view of the mental health care system when you are finished.
7. The Learning Style of People with Autism, Emergence: Labeled Autistic, and Thinking In Pictures by Temple Grandin [Autism]
This woman never ceases to amaze me. From her website:
http://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html