Out of Balance: Experiencing Psychological Disorders
Stephen Hinshaw and Kay Redfield Jameson share their experiences with bipolar illness, one as a child whose father suffered from the disease, the other from a very personal point of view. The line between normality and abnormality is blurry, as one ...
Getting It Together: Optimal Approach- Psychotherapy with Biomedical Therapy, The
Controlled, multi-site field studies by NIMH indicate that the best outcome for most psychological disorders is a combination of good psychotherapy and medication. Getting people into treatment is one of the hardest things in psychiatric and psychol...
Getting It Together: Psychological Therapy: Then and Now
Until recent decades, little was known about how to treat psychological disorders. People who were seriously disturbed were hidden away or confined to institutions, and treated in ways that look appalling by today's standards. Stephen Hinshaw descri...
Going to Extremes: Cognitive Factors and Mood Disorders
Researchers have isolated social and cognitive factors that contribute to mood disorder. For example the loss of a parent, particularly a mother, early in life is a powerful predictor of mood disorder. Early abuse experiences may also trigger the on...
Going to Extremes: Genetic Links to Mood Disorders
If a person has a first degree relative who suffers from bipolar disorder or depression they are significant risk for having a mood disorder themselves, as we see in the cases of Beverly and Kay Redfield Jameson. Stephen Hinshaw talks about wonderin...
Going to Extremes: Support for Families of the Mentally Ill
More than anything, families with loved ones who are mentally ill need information and support. Too often psychological disorders are still considered a source of shame. The public at large as well as family members need to know that these are commo...
Abnormal Psychology; Introduction to Psychology: Suicide Risk
Fifty percent of people with bipolar disorder attempt suicide at some point in their lives; 20% complete the act. Kay Redfield Jamison talks about her own struggle with bipolar disorder and the sense of helplessness and pain that result. The period ...