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  • Speaking of Sadness

    Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness, Updated and Expanded Edition

    by David A. Karp ...
    Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate interviews with fifty depressed men and women. By turns poignant, disturbing, mordantly funny, and wise, Karp's interviews cause us to marvel at the courage of depressed people in dealing with ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Burden of Sympathy

    How Families Cope With Mental Illness

    by David A. Karp ...
    What are the limits of sympathy in dealing with another person's troubles? Where do we draw the line between caring for a loved one, and being swallowed up emotionally by the obligation to do so? Quite simply, what do we owe each other? In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw "boundaries of sympathy" to ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Is It Me or My Meds?

    Living with Antidepressants

    by David A. Karp ...
    By the millennium Americans were spending more than 12 billion dollars yearly on antidepressant medications. Currently, millions of people in the U.S. routinely use these pills. Are these miracle drugs, quickly curing depression? Or is their popularity a sign that we now inappropriately redefine normal life problems as diseases? Are they prescribed too often or too seldom? How do they affect self ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Burden of Sympathy

    How Families Cope With Mental Illness

    by David A. Karp ...
    What are the limits of sympathy in dealing with another person's troubles? Where do we draw the line between caring for a loved one, and being swallowed up emotionally by the obligation to do so? Quite simply, what do we owe each other? In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw "boundaries of sympathy" to ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Windows 7 Annoyances

    Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

    by David A. Karp ...
    Windows 7 may be faster and more stable than Vista, but it's a far cry from problem-free. David A. Karp comes to the rescue with the latest in his popular Windows Annoyances series. This thorough guide gives you the tools you need to fix the troublesome parts of this operating system, plus the solutions, hacks, and timesaving tips to make the most of your PC.Streamline Windows Explorer, improve ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Being Urban

    A Sociology of City Life

    This third edition of a classic urban sociology text examines critical but often-neglected aspects of urban life from a social-psychological theoretical perspective.Symbolic interaction is among the most central theoretical paradigms in sociology and the theory that most thoroughly attends to how individuals give meaning to their world—in this case, how city dwellers interpret and respond to their ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

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  • Chemically Imbalanced

    Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery

    A study of how ordinary people deal with everyday problems through self-mastery and mental health care practices.Everyday suffering—those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone's lives—is something that humans have grappled with for millennia. But the last decades have seen a drastic change in the way we approach it. In the past, a person going through a ... Read more

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  • His History, Her Story

    A Survival Guide for Spouses of Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Trauma, 2nd Edition

    by Debra Warner ...
    ***His History, Her Story***is the first book to explore the impact of male childhood sexual abuse on adult relationships. Aimed at helping both the partners of trauma survivors and mental health professionals, the book is written from the unique perspective of Dr. Debra Warner, the leading American forensic psychologist in the field of male trauma who is married to a trauma survivor.Dr. Warner, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dance/Movement Therapy for Trauma Survivors

    Theoretical, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives

    This book offers a timely, detailed, and comprehensive synopsis of dance/movement therapy (DMT) in the treatment of psychological trauma.Along with the foundational concepts of DMT, tied to traditional trauma theory and a neurobiological framework, contributions contain rich clinical examples that illustrate the use of dance, creative movement, and body awareness with a wide variety of populations ... Read more

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  • Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level

    Individuals and Families

    While social work policy can be considered the what, and practice, the how, the study of human behavior is concerned with why. Why do people do the things they do? Why do individuals behave differently in groups than when alone? Why do some people become the victims of their lives while others who have endured tragedy become life's heroes? Resilience across the life span is a new major theme of ... Read more

    $55.39 USD

  • Sociological Perspectives on Substance Use and College Life

    An Ethnographic Investigation

    This book is specifically designed to be used in a variety of my sociology courses, including Introduction to Sociology and Social Problems. It is an example of a sociological monograph, a detailed written study on a specialized scholarly subject and will illustrate how original sociological research is conducted, analyzed, and written.Throughout this text, we will examine a wide variety of ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Is Everyone Really Equal?

    An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD