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resources
general mental health
websites:
Canadian Mental Health Association
The National Mental Health Association
Internet Mental Health
roots of mental illness/causation/psychiatry
books:
"Mental illness : opposing viewpoints" - Tamara L. Roleff, Laura K. Egendorf, book editors, Greenhaven Press
"A history of psychiatry : from the era of the asylum to the age of Prozac", Edward Shorter, John Wiley & Sons
"As for the sky, falling : a critical look at psychiatry and suffering", by Shelagh Lynne Supeene, Second Story Press
"Women and the psychiatric paradox", by P. Susan Penfold & Gillian A. Walker, Eden Press
"Of two minds : the growing disorder in American psychiatry", T.M. Luhrmann, Knopf
The Politics of Experience by R.D. Laing, Pantheon Books
websites:
RD Liang Links
PsychiatryMatters.MD
mood disorders
books:
"An Unquiet Mind" by Kay Redfield Jamison, A.A. Knopf
"Darkness visible : a memoir of madness", by William Styron, Random House
websites:
McMan's Depression and Bipolar Web
Dr. Ivan's Depression Central
About.Com Depression
anxiety disorders/ocd
books:
"The boy who couldn't stop washing : the experience & treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder", by Judith L. Rapoport, Dutton
"Tormenting thoughts and secret rituals : the hidden epidemic of obsessive-compulsive disorder" , by Ian Osbornm, Pantheon Books
websites:
Doubt and Other Disorders
Personal OCD Pages
Obsessive Compulsive Illness and Creativity Net
Boss Back OCD (resource for parents and children)
medication
books:
"Prozac diary", by Lauren Slater, Random House
"The creation of psychopharmacology" . by Healy, David, MRC Psych., Harvard University Press
websites:
Crazymeds
therapy
books:
The New Peoplemaking by Virginia Satir, Science and Behavior Books
Gestalt Therapy Verbatim by Frederick S. Perls
Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life by Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning and Martha Davis, New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
meditation
books:
A gradual awakening by Stephen Levine, Anchor Books
Boundless healing : meditation exercises to enlighten the mind and heal the body by Tulku Thondup
Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh and Mayumi Oda, Parallax Press
Any book by the author Tarthang Tulku
websites:
The Every Day Zen Foundation
Dharma Dialogues with Catherine Ingram
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