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Title: The Future of Mental Health

Subtitle: Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm

Author: Eric Maisel

Narrator: Owen Daly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-15

Publisher: New Street Communications, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

The Future of Mental Health drills to the heart of the current mental health crisis, where hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide receive unwarranted "mental disorder" diagnoses. It paints a picture of how mental health providers can improve their practices to better serve individuals in distress and outlines necessary steps for a mental health revolution.

Eric Maisel's goal is to inject more human interaction into the therapeutic process. Maisel powerfully deconstructs the "mental disorder" paradigm that is the foundation of current mental health practices. The author presents a revolutionary alternative, a "human experience" paradigm. He sheds a bright light on the differences between so-called "psychiatric medication" and mere chemicals with powerful effects and explains why the DSM-5 is silent on causes, silent on treatment, and wedded to illegitimate "symptom pictures". Maisel describes powerful helping alternatives like communities of care and explains why one day "human experience specialists" may replace current mental health professionals.

An important book for both service providers and service users, The Future of Mental Health brilliantly unmasks current mental health practices and goes an important step further: It describes what we are obliged to do in order to secure better mental health services - and better mental health.

Critic Reviews:

"Maisel goes a long way toward explaining our current situation and pointing us in new directions in his excellent new book. Highly recommended!" (Louis Breger, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis)

"Profoundly innovative and revolutionary.... [Maisel] describes the Herculean but not impossible tasks facing the mental health establishment and reshuffles all the cards in psychiatry." (Patrick Landman, psychiatrist; child psychiatrist; chairman, STOP DSM)

Members Reviews:

Oh, if only.

There's much to commend this book and the ideas that underpin it. Many mh professionals already work in similar ways and it'd be lovely to see the general paradigm shift proposed. I also think that, whilst I'd go a very long way along this same path I'm conscious that 'not proven' doesn't necessarily mean 'not true' and whilst there is very little evidence for the assumptions underlying most psychiatric disorders there are real issues that won't always respond so easily. We need to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

a good theme but detail rambling

if this book was much shorter its points could be debated. I found the tone sarcastic. he has made some valid points, but they get drowned out with too much detail. and whilst intelligent language is used, backed up with some research, i think the points made could be used to argue both sides of the same coin. in my opinion i had high hopes for this book but ended up giving up on it and not finishing it.

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Title: Soul Machine

Subtitle: The Invention of the Modern Mind

Author: George Makari

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind.

Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept - the mind - emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither.

In this groundbreaking work, award-winning historian George Makari shows how writers, philosophers, physicians, and anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an ethereal thing but a natural one. From the ascent of Oliver Cromwell to the fall of Napoleon, seminal thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, Diderot, and Kant worked alongside often-forgotten brain specialists, physiologists, and alienists in the hopes of mapping the inner world. Conducted in a cauldron of political turmoil, these frequently shocking, always embattled efforts would give rise to psychiatry, mind sciences such as phrenology, and radically new visions of the self. Further, they would be crucial to the establishment of secular ethics and political liberalism.

Boldly original, wide ranging, and brilliantly synthetic, Soul Machine gives us a masterful, new account of the making of the modern Western mind.

Members Reviews:

Encylcipedic in its presentation

The author starts the book with Hobbes (1650) and ends it with the Romantics (1810) and a little past that with the study of phrenology. I love books about the Enlightenment. As far as I'm concerned a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for liberal democracy was to first have an Enlightenment.

It takes John Locke (not the character from "Lost", but the philosopher) to introduce the word "mind" and "consciousness" into our lexicon. At the start of the Enlightenment witchcraft and mental illnesses coming from the devil were both considered real, by the end both were considered explainable within purely natural terms.

I wouldn't call this a philosophy book though the author does use the philosophers as a device so he can can introduce doctors, scientist and other practitioners of the time period and show how they thought about dealing with problems of the mind.

Usually, most books I read seem to be rehashes of other books I have read but not this one. He doesn't seem to miss a person relevant to the story. That's sort of a problem with this book. That makes this book read more like an Encyclopedia presented in chronological order. I think the author missed a real opportunity by not tying his story neatly together in a comprehensive narrative. He hints at how he could have done that in the epilogue by identifying the dichotomies that exist through out his story: mind/body, nature/nurture, deterministic/free will, and secular/faith. I think he could have written a masterpiece if he took a stand on each dichotomy and wrote a book with his bias inserted and making it part of the narrative.

As it is, I liked the book, and would recommend it to others, but warn the listener that at times it seemed like reading an Encyclopedia (something I like to do, but I realize not every one enjoys that as much as I do).

High yield

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I am an academic brain scientist.

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Title: The Kindness Pact

Subtitle: 8 Promises to Make You Feel Good About Who You are and the Life You Live

Author: Domonique Bertolucci

Narrator: Domonique Bertolucci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-15

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Most people are terribly unkind to themselves. We make harsh judgements on ourselves, engage in endless self-criticism and are unforgiving of even the smallest of failings. At the same time, we can be loving and kind parents, generous and encouraging friends, and supportive and committed colleagues. We give everyone else our best only to give ourselves our worst.

The Kindness Pact introduces readers to the Eight Promises - commitments you need to make to yourself if you want to feel good about who you are and the life you live.

These promises invite you to be as kind to yourself as you are to the other important people in your life. Each chapter also includes inspiring stories of personal change that Domonique has seen firsthand through her work as a lifestyle coach.

Members Reviews:

Simplistic reminder about leading with kindness...

To be kind, the best thing about this book is its title. It could have been a good pamphlet, but it is not a unique book/ concept.

Eye opening!

I absolutely loved reading this book; it's well written. Looking forward to applying the 8 promises to my own life.

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Title: The Happiness Code

Subtitle: Ten Keys to Being the Best You Can Be

Author: Domonique Bertolucci

Narrator: Domonique Bertolucci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-15

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

At some point or other, many of us feel like we're missing something. We look at others and wonder: 'How is that person so content with their life? What do they have that I don't?'

These questions are not uncommon and are asked by thousands of people every day. In our hectic lives, we have to spend most of our time focusing on the external aspects: finishing a work deadline, worrying about relationships, the mortgage, the kids - it's no wonder we can't find the time to sleep!

Who takes the time out to relax, reflect and focus on themselves for a while? There just seems no time for self-discovery in the stead of everything else.

The Happiness Code shows you the way to unlock your inner happiness and shed the negative veil you have been viewing not only the world through but yourself as well. A happy soul leads to a happy life, and if you apply these skills to yours, you and those closest to you will be amazed at the difference.

The Happiness Code provides listeners with the answer they have been searching for: enduring happiness is not a result of the things you've done but the person you've chosen to be.

Members Reviews:

Who in their right mind soes not want to be HAPPY?

books like these should be taught in all high schools....information this valuable ought to be taught to every young person before leaving school, It should be a part of their learning structure, along with Communications;Banking and handling finances; and Understanding Relationships.Understanding how to keep the body healthy.

We are not and have not been teaching students the correct subjects for the first ten to fifteen years of their lives and then we wonder why our society is in such a huge mess! You must build on strong foundations and these are pillars of learning that we all require in our civilized societies.

I liked the book

I received it rather quickly and read it in one day. Lots of info and how to go about being happy wish it had more examples and techniques. Next I'll have to buy the workbook for this book :)

'Got to have it!

Everybody should read it every once and a while as a happiness reminder.

Nothing new but we forget all that stuff too easily.

Very easy to read. I recommand it for sure.

Far too basic ...

The interview with the author, heard recently on the radio, was a far better investment in time. Truth is, no book can provide answers to subject matter.

Amazed that this little

Amazed that this little, wonderful book has not gotten more reviews! Its the perfect book to help you define what is important, focus on what makes you happy, find joy in the everyday, and build towards a future full of happiness. Found it by chance on vacation, and have had it with me ever since!

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Title: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for All Mood Disorders and Addictions

Author: Jim Berry

Narrator: Cory Mikhals

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-23-15

Publisher: dsk-enterprise

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

If you have mood disorders and addictions, this audiobook will help you to overcome them and live a meaningful life. This is a practical cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) self-help book that will help you to understand yourself and gain knowledge of how to overcome your problems. After listening to and applying what is recommended in this book, you will change your thoughts and behaviors to make you feel better. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one of the most effective therapies that have been developed to treat mental illnesses and substance addictions.

The principles stated in this book can be practiced on a daily basis and will live on with the patient, even after the treatment is completed. It will help you to overcome anxiety, depression, phobias, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive behavior, and drug and alcohol addictions, among all mood disorders and addictions. CBT is talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave. Unlike some other talking treatments, CBT deals with your current problems rather than focusing on issues from your past. It looks for practical ways to improve your state of mind on a daily basis.

Changing thoughts and behavior is a helpful way to alleviate mood disorders and addictions. If you can apply the principles recommended in this book, eat healthy foods, and exercise the CBT skills regularly, you will overcome the challenges that prevent you from enjoying your life and having a meaningful life.

Here is a preview of what you will learn:

Members Reviews:

A simple book about CBT

I think CBT is very helpful to people suffering from various conditions. I tried it myself when I was battling anxiety.

This book is an overview of the therapy and its benefits. It gets a little repetitive in places and I don't agree with everything the author says about it. I would rather that he stuck with the scientifically proven facts, but he did wrote some of his opinions and points There is nothing wrong with that, it is his book, but I prefer it the other way. All in all, a good book if you are interested in CBT and you want to get some simple information that is readable.

This stuff works better than pills!

I can tell you that CBT is so powerful that many people quit taking pills to deal with their issues. The power lies in the fact that we have reasons for the things we do and if we explore these reasons and remove the bricks from them, the entire issue quickly have a way of resolving themselves and without the drugs. The best part as this book explores is that this works for everyone. It can be applied to mood disorders or depression. The best part is that it contains the mechanisms to prevent relapse as well if you are practicing this skill daily!

I've ready several self-help books that are better than this one

This book has some helpful information but nothing that a person could not find on a free internet site. Thank goodness the ebook was only $2.99. It is poorly written. The first few chapters are extremely repetitive. The author also contradicts himself. For example, in the first chapter he suggests that self-help books such as his "are all you need to overcome any kind of mood disorders and addictions." He later goes on to describe what a person can expect in cognitive therapy sessions.

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Title: Introvert: The Art of Silence

Author: Dan Smith, Katherine Smith

Narrator: Alan Munro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-15

Publisher: WE CANT BE BEAT LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Introversion is a word derived from two Latin words: "intro", which means inward/inside and "vertere" which means to turn. From the very origin of the word introversion, we can conclude a lot about introverted people. However, this is only the tip of the iceberg as far as introverted people, their strengths, and weaknesses. If you believe that you or someone close to you is an introvert, this book will help you discover plenty of information on how introverts think, behave, and how they can improve their social life, love life and their success at work.

This was created by an introverted person who probably best understands people like herself. You will find advice on how to increase your self-confidence, improve your friendly or loving relationships, but most of all, how to properly understand and accept the introverted person.

There are also tips on how to raise an introverted child and how to make the most of your introspective and analytical nature if you are introverted. Listen to The Introvert: The Art of Silence to learn how to successfully communicate with the opposite sex, friends, and business associates. Tips represented in this book are based both on personal experience and on the advice of experts and psychologists.

Members Reviews:

very informative

This has truly helped me understand myself and also enlightened me to many things of the unknown. I truly enjoyed listening to this book. This is my third time listening and I will continue listen.

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Title: In the Mind Fields

Subtitle: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis

Author: Casey Schwartz

Narrator: Holly Cate

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine)

"Everywhere I looked it seemed that we were being defined by what our brains were doing.... Everywhere, there were hucksters and geniuses, all trying to colonize the new world of the brain."

"I'd never been a science person," Casey Schwartz declares at the beginning of her far-reaching quest to understand how we define ourselves. Nevertheless, in her early 20s, she was drawn to the possibilities and insights emerging on the frontiers of brain research. Over the next decade, she set out to meet the neuroscientists and psychoanalysts engaged with such questions as: How do we perceive the world, make decisions, or remember our childhoods? Are we using the brain? Or the mind? To what extent is it both? Schwartz discovered that neuroscience and psychoanalysis are engaged in a conflict almost as old as the disciplines themselves. Many neuroscientists, if they think about psychoanalysis at all, view it as outdated, arbitrary, and subjective while many psychoanalysts decry neuroscience as lacking the true texture of human experience. With passion and humor, Schwartz explores the surprising efforts to find common ground. Beginning among the tweedy Freudians of North London and proceeding to laboratories, consulting rooms, and hospital bedsides around the world, Schwartz introduces a cast of pioneering characters, from Mark Solms, a South African neuropsychoanalyst with an expertise in dreams; to David Silvers, a psychoanalyst practicing in New York; to Harry, a man who has lost his use of language in the wake of a stroke but who nevertheless benefits from Silvers' analytic technique. In the Mind Fields is a riveting view of the convictions, obsessions, and struggles of those who dedicate themselves to the effort to understand the mysteries of inner life.

Critic Reviews:

"Narrator Holly Cate's deep, polished voice suits the author's professional tone and expresses the humanity of her journey to reconcile age-old conflicts between neuroscience and psychoanalysis." (AudioFile)

"If psychoanalysis studies the brain as mind and neuroscience studies the mind as brain, can they somehow learn to work together to help us understand who we are? Casey Schwartz takes us on a charming, personal quest to reconcile hard to reconcile views - watching, fascinated, as the brain, maybe the most unfathomable thing in the universe, tries to fathom itself." (Alan Alda)

"For too long, we've had to choose between the mind and the brain, between a psychodynamic vocabulary and a neuroscientific one. In this generous, insightful, witty book, Casey Schwartz looks at the steep cost of that dichotomous construct. Her meticulous reporting and lucid reasoning resolve seemingly intractable dialectics with the sheer grace of common sense." (Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree)

Members Reviews:

Good review of field

Any additional comments?

My impression is that the depth of knowledge is just not there yet for this field; the book is often more about why we should tie psychiatry with neurobiology than what the tie has improved in our knowledge. It begins following around a South African neurologist who delves into analysis with his patients and ends with a lot of pages devoted to a counselor who is devoted to an aphasic patient.

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Title: Paranoid Personality Disorder

Subtitle: The Ultimate Guide to Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention

Author: Clayton Geoffreys

Narrator: Craig Sweat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-15

Publisher: Calvintir Books, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Learn everything you need to know to cope with paranoid personality disorder! In Paranoid Personality Disorder: The Ultimate Guide to Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention, you'll learn about paranoid personality disorder and how it can impact a person's life. This book covers a variety of topics regarding narcissism, such as the subtypes of paranoid personality disorder, symptoms of the disorder, as well as how to overcome it. If you are looking for a book to better understand how to identify the causes of paranoid personality disorder, explore this short book. After learning about the causes of PPD, we'll dig deep into treatment methods and different types of therapy that are available for those suffering from paranoid personality disorder symptoms. It's time to keep yourself in check and overcome paranoid personality disorder. Grab your copy today.

Here is a preview of what is inside this book:

Members Reviews:

Good information but monotonous narrator

The information presented in this book is important especially for those who have ppd. The narrator is a monotone. Bottom line: if you or someone has signs of this disorder, get as much help as possible.

Easy to understand and to the point

It covers quite a bit of information in an easy to understand (though not super interesting) and brief format. No stories, few real life examples, but quite practical and informative. Feels like a good introduction to the topic, though now I want to find something more in depth.

Short and not very Lively

Is there anything you would change about this book?

This book needs to go into more detail. The narrator is monotone and difficult to really get into. This book is very short.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

Bored and unfullfilled

How did the narrator detract from the book?

monotone

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Título: S=EX2

Autor: Pere Estupinyà

Narrador: Alba Solà

Formato: Abridged

Duración: 13 hrs and 7 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 07-28-15

Editor: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial

Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 14 votos

Categorías: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Resumen del editor:

Estás escuchando el libro más riguroso, ameno, y completo que un autor haya escrito nunca sobre el fascinante estudio científico de la sexualidad humana. Pere Estupinyà, El ladrón de cerebros, se sumerge en una novedosa investigación científica y para ello participa en un estudio de la Rutgers University sobre disfunción eréctil y el orgasmo masculino, se infiltra en clínicas de medicina sexual, acude a los mayores congresos internacionales de sexología, y entrevista a fisiólogos, psicólogos, terapeutas, biólogos evolutivos y neurocientíficos expertos en sexualidad.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

El contenido es bueno PERO...

Se supone que el autor es un hombre y considero que debió ser narrado por un hombre. Por ello cuando hablaba en primera persona siempre me tildaba un poco.

por otro lado, no me gusta la narración castiza del libro: es monótona, fría y aburrida.

todo sobre el sexo

impresionante conocer todo lo que no sabemos sobre el sexo y sus relaciones. recomendado en este mundo actual

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Title: The Traits of OCPD - Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder: Difficult People with Inflexible Standards, Rigidity, a Hypercritical Demeanor and an Obsession

Subtitle: Transcend Mediocrity Book 18

Author: J.B. Snow

Narrator: D Gaunt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-15

Publisher: JB Snow Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

If you are like me, you spent a majority of your life largely unaware of what OCPD was. When you suddenly stumbled upon it, everything started to make sense. If you have others around you who have OCPD, you see the daily struggles it causes them and the friction that occurs when they try to interact with you and others. You feel helpless and lost with the diagnosis, but you feel relieved that there is a name for the thing you have been dealing with for so long.

OCPD is the abbreviation for a group of mental symptoms that are collectively called obsessive compulsive personality disorder. Many people confuse OCPD with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). People can have both; however, OCPD is a pervasive condition that affects the person's entire life and all interactions. A person with OCPD may justify their rigidity and inflexibility using the morals and values their family instilled in them. They don't notice that their OCPD is causing a problem with their interactions with others. Instead they feel that other people aren't being reasonable....

Members Reviews:

not a book

Thought this was a whole book. It is not only a few pages, regret buying

A skilled OCPD communicator

Again, Ms. Snow in her âDifficult People . . .â â The Traits of OCPD â book is quite observant regarding the negative traits of OCPD people, and she describes them in exacting detail. She is a skilled communicator whose writing talents shine through this ebook with ease and clarity. Her many examples, especially, are very helpful; painting the varied and misery-creating behaviors of OCPD people with a colorful palette, which helps anyone to recognize an OCPD person very early on, and, consequently, be all the earlier prepared to interact with such people knowledgeably, insightfully, and compassionately. I would recommend this ebook to anyone who wishes to gain a concise, yet overall understanding of the OCPD mindset. Thank you, Ms. Snow, for a job well done! Sincerely, Mack Ethridge, President, New Frontier Health Research, and author of OCPDâs 1st Comprehensive Key Treatment and Life Liberation Program.