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NAMI EASTSIDE |
Lending Library The NAMI Eastside Lending Library is a resource for NAMI Eastside members, support group participants and Family-to-Family class attendees. Books, videos, and journals are available to be loaned at no charge. For more information, please contact librarian@nami-eastside.org. BOOKS THAT WE RECOMMEND : Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia by Marva Hornbecher/ New York : HarperCollins, 1998 (298 p). Bulimic since she was 9 years old, anorexic since she was about 15, the author reveals how and why women with these eating disorders can be helped and, most of all, how long it takes for that help to take hold. Healing from depression : 12 weeks to a better mood, a body, mind, and spirit recovery program by Douglas Bloch / Berkeley : Celestial Arts, 2002 (443 p.) Author Douglas Bloch shares his struggle with and ultimate recovery from a life-threatening depressive illness. He offers a practical "survival plan" for living in hell-which he adopted until a group of committed, loving people held a vision of his recovery which lead to a spiritual healing. In addition to the personal narrative, the second half of the book contains Douglas's "Better Mood Recovery Program"--a five-part comprehensive program for treating depression and anxiety through a holistic approach that includes diet, nutrition, exercise, social support, attitudinal healing, prayer, meditation and relaxation techniques. The program offers a week-by-week plan with worksheets and goal sheets to customize your recovery. Moreover, the book's appendix contains an extensive catalog of Internet sites offering up-to-date information on treating mood disorders and addictions. Panic attacks : a natural approach by Shirley Trickett / Berkeley : Ulysses Press, 1996. This book teaches readers how to identify factors that can build up to cause anxiety and depression. With specific suggestions on diet, breathing, relaxation, biofeedback, and exercise, the program helps sufferers empower themselves to prevent ongoing distress and recurrences. Madness on the couch : blaming the victim in the heyday of psychoanalysis by Edward Dolnick / New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998. Edward Dolnick, former chief science writer for the Boston Globe, traces the popularity of psychoanalysis in America during the 1950s and 1960s. His focus is on the pseudoscientific theories and dangerous practices that emerged and flourished in the wake of World War II as American psychotherapists battled to understand and treat schizophrenia, autism, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. I am not sick, I don’t need help! : helping the seriously mentally ill accept treatment : a practical guide for families and therapists by Xavier Amador with Anna-Lisa Johanson / New York : Vida Press, 2000. The book offers a sensitive presentation of a practical, clinically sound, approach to getting a severely ill person to accept needed treatment. The author provides families and mental health professionals with a concrete, step-by-step plan to improve awareness of illness. It’s nobody’s fault: new hope and help for difficult children and their parents by Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D. / New York: Random House, 1996 (303 p). This book explains brain chemistry, genetics, children’s behavioral and emotional problems, and the use of medication in children in understandable language. It offers practical information that will prove useful to professionals and parents alike.
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