A former mental patient helps an addicted homeless man recover a life he thought lost. In the process he develops a relationship with a novice psych nurse (the antithesis of Nurse Ratchet) but first he must cross the borders of the states, nay, the countries of the mind and their parched deserts, flooded deltas, and threatening crags.
The author describes his and his wife's odyssey across America by RV in an account of their search for some of the small places on the map and for some of the forgotten virtues that made America great.
Now in paperback, here is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the most important recent findings about how our health, behavior, feelings, and identities are influenced by what goes on inside our brains.
Through the eyes of writers, artists, scientists and philosophers, "States of Mind" explores the meaning of consciousness and, in particular, the nature of interrupted or liminal conscious experiences, such as somnambulism, synaesthesia and ...
States of Mind: Conversations with Psychological Investigators
Illustrated with helpful cartoons, this book provides a vast knowledge of atoms and atmospheres.
The logic of the matrix, its 'rules' and the behaviour of its virtual inhabitants, offers a striking and imaginative depiction of beta-mentality. Using computer-generated 'reality' (a reality based on code) as an animated pictorial ...
Implicit in this is the recognition that they are in the grip of something that leads them to deceive, probably themselves, but also others—a wish to pervert a relationship to someone who is trying to help.
States of Mind is a series of dialogues conducted by Richard Kearney with twenty-two of the world's leading political, philosophical and literary thinkers.
This is a problem almost all practising psychoanalysts will face at some time in their career, yet there is very little in the existing literature which offers guidance in this important area.
This is a major international textbook for psychiatrists and other professionals working in the field of mental healthcare.