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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryThe Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science Doidge, Norman Book 2007 Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises. Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World  Macy, Joanna Book 1998 A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world. Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy Ehrenreich, Barbara Book 2006 An account of the toll that depression has taken on European and North American health since the 18th century. Disaster and Mental Health: The Palestinian Experience El Sarraj, Eyad; Qouta, Samir Article 2005 The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults. East York Workers' Association: Connexipedia article Article 2017 The East York Workers' Association (EYWA) was an unemployment movement that developed during the Great Depression in the township of East York, Ontario. Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite Levine, Bruce E. Book 2011 Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, ener... Health care and children in crisis in Gaza Garfinkle, Miriam; Abdul-Qadir, Reem Article 2007 These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured ... How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression Without Doctors: Drugless Antidotes Levine, Bruce Article 2012 While Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway received extensive medical treatment for depression but tragically committed suicide, other famously depressed people — including Abraham Lincoln, William James... How we learned to stop having fun Ehrenreich, Barbara Article 2007 We used to know how to get together and really let our hair down. Then, in the early 1600s, a mass epidemic of depression broke out - and we've been living with it ever since. Something went wrong, bu... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016: Depression and Joy Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence t... The Radical Therapist: Therapy means change not adjustment Radical Therapist Collective - Agel, Jerome (ed.) Book 1971 The contributors to this anthology proceed from the premise that therapy should be a means of liberation rather than a tool of social control. Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy Levine, Bruce Book 2007 The rate of depression in the United States has increased more than tenfold in the last fifty years, and American mental health institutions have become part of the problem rather than the solution. T... What Should I Do?: Selfishness, Happiness And Benefiting Others Edwards, David; and Media Lens Article 2003 Motivation is not a problem for anyone who accepts the extraordinary truth contained in Yeshe Aro's ncient prescription for happiness: "On this depends my liberation: to assist others -- nothing else.... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryMusicophilia Tales of Music and the Brain Sacks, Oliver 2007 Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he examines the power of music through the individaul experiences of patients, musi... Pharmageddon Healy, David 2012 David Healy's comprehensive argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine is an indictment of problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Stress (biology) Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Stress is a term in psychology and biology, first coined in the biological context in the 1930s, which has in more recent decades become a commonplace of popular parlance. |
