Subjects:  1. Bipolar transistors    2. Data processing    3. Design and construction    4. Mathematical models    5. Transistor circuits   

Subjects:  1. Bipolar transistors    2. Electronics - Circuits - General    3. Electronics - Circuits - Integrated    4. Electronics - Transistors    5. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    6. Germanium    7. Microelectronics    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Semiconductors    10. Silicon    11. Technology    12. Technology & Industrial Arts    13. Electronic devices & materials    14. Technology / Electronics / Circuits / General   

Subjects:  1. Group Psychotherapy    2. Life skills guides    3. Manic-depressive illness    4. Manic-depressive persons    5. Mental Disorders    6. Mental Illness    7. Mood Disorders    8. Psychology    9. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    10. Psychotherapy - General    11. Treatment    12. Psychiatry    13. Psychotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder    2. Child Care/Parenting    3. Children with Special Needs    4. Complications    5. Depression in children    6. Family & Relationships    7. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    8. Manic depressive illness in children    9. Parenting - General    10. Popular works    11. Psychopathology - Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD--ADHD)    12. Advice on parenting    13. Family & Relationships / Parenting    14. Popular medicine   

Reviews (6)

JUST PLAIN BAD WRITING. . .
Kazmierczak's account of his bipolar disorder had such potential, but it's so badly written that it's not even worth discussing. An unusual memoir
Jeff has written in unusual memoir about his struggle with bipolar disorder.It's unusual because the style of writing and method of storytelling are both a bit eccentric- this is fine with me but some readers may have a problem with it.I'm a sucker for memoirs and find that they provide insight into mental illness that no textbook will ever capture.Furthermore, I find that every mental illness memoir author has a unique contribution to make.With these two points in mind, I'd recommend this memoir to anyone suffering from bipolar disorder.Avery Z. Conner, author of "Fevers of the Mind".

Neural Misfire
Jeff Kazmierczak has written a startling, reality based novel that will knock your socks off...He shares the tortured, ravaging and challenging mood swings that suddenly emerged in his freshman year of college.He also shares the impact this had on his bewildered, but supportive family.Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography/Autobiography    2. Psychology & Psychiatry / Mental Illness    3. Bipolar Disorder    4. Depression, Mental    5. Manic-depressive illness    6. Mental Illness    7. Popular works    8. Psychology & Psychiatry   

Subjects:  1. Inspirational    2. Mental Illness    3. Motivational & Inspirational    4. Philosophy & Social Aspects    5. Self-Help    6. Abnormal psychology    7. Philosophy of science    8. Self-Help / Motivational   

Subjects:  1. Mental Illness    2. Psychology    3. medication side effects    4. mental depression    5. Bipolar disorder    6. Lithium    7. Carbamazepine    8. Mood disorders    9. Manic depressive disorder   

Reviews (6)

Interesting pathology of notorious rulers
The authors are quite convincing in their portrayal of Hitler and, especially, Napoleon as Manic Depressives. Their case of Stalin, however, is completely unconvincing; Stalin clearly was a psychopath.
an interesting view of history
This book provides a new perspective with which to examine some of history's most notorious leaders. I agree that Hitler and Napoleon seemed to exhibit symptoms of mania, though I'm not sure about Stalin. I'd say in general, many leaders throughout history may have been manic or hypomanic. George Custer and Alexander the Great, for example. An entertaining and somewhat controversial read.Avery Z. Conner author of "Fevers of the Mind"

A fascinating perspective on history, rarely explored
I don't know why I bought this book, and I didn't read it for several years after I bought it, but one day I picked it up, and I couldn't put it down! It is a most unusual and fascinating perspective on what drove three men to absolute power and madness - that all three of them shared similar mental illnesses. True? Perhaps. Interesting? I have read it at least twice since. A must read! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1769-1821    2. Case studies    3. Diseases and history    4. Emperor of the French,    5. History - General History    6. Manic depressive illness    7. Mental Depression    8. Modern - General    9. Napoleon    10. Psychohistory    11. Psychology    12. World - General    13. Hitler, Adolf    14. Mental health    15. Psychiatry    16. Social history    17. Stalin, Joseph   

Reviews (6)

I know this woman and she is the real thing.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Clover and was able to spend some time getting to know her and though the book is great in person she is truly amazing. Having studied psychiatry and the effects of long term treatment I can tell you that hardly anyone makes it out and is able to function on their own. Clover has done that and was able to write and self publish her story all with the intent to help others. This book is great, it is truly a testament to one woman's strength and love for all. I would encourage you to also contact her through the info. given and support her cause, she is a real hero and a wonderful woman.

Inside Crazy Clover
"Escape from Psychiatry," the autobiography of "Clover Smith" is a harrowing account of one woman's odyssey through the mental health care system of the `50s, '60s and `70s. This is not a book that can be evaluated as a piece of literature, because strictly speaking, it just isn't. But, like other first person accounts in the same vein - Frances Farmer's "Will There Really Be a Morning?" comes to mind - Clover's story is valuable for its portrayal of the shocking abuses and neglect endured by the mentally ill at the hands of psychiatrists.
Psychiatry Hinders More Than It Helps
ESCAPE FROM PSYCHIATRY is a very powerful story! I am awed by Clover's strength and courage in being able to recall and relive all of her experiences of psychiatric abuse in order to write about what she went through. Her story is very important because it shows how the core of so-called "schizophrenia" often traces back to feeling desperate for love and yet very afraid of it. Mostly, however, her story documents how the pessimistic expectations that psychiatrists have for people who are extreme mental cases can become self-fulfilling prophecies for people who remain trapped as "patients" in the "mental health" system. When Clover found different people who gave her kindness, love, and hope, she recovered and healed. This is the kind of story that most psychiatrists can't stand hearing about because it shows how they contribute to the very conditions they claim they are trying to cure, and it shows that their beliefs about "chronic mental cases" can be totally wrong.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1930-    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography & Autobiography / Medical    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Clover,    7. Ex-mental patients    8. General    9. Mental Illness    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Mental Illness    11. Schizophrenics    12. United States    13. Manic depressive illness    14. Patients    15. Psychology & Psychiatry    16. Schizophrenia   

Subjects:  1. Bipolar transistors    2. Electronic Apparatus And Devices    3. Electronics - General    4. Electronics - Solid State    5. Electronics - Transistors    6. Gallium arsenide semiconductor    7. Gallium arsenide semiconductors    8. Junctions    9. Physics    10. Reference    11. Semiconductors    12. Technology    13. Technology & Industrial Arts    14. Semi-conductors & super-conductors   

Subjects:  1. Psychology    2. Psychopathology - Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD--ADHD)    3. Psychology / Psychopathology / Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD-ADHD)   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. General    4. Medical - General    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Mental Health    7. Personal Memoirs    8. Mental health services   

Reviews (2)

Good Information if you are a Professional
This "book" is addressed to the professional. I am not a professional, just a bipolar. I is also expensive (for what you get), and of limited help to a non-professional.Perhaps it is best as a reference manual.However, there are better books available for the purpose.

very good, really a valuable one.
it is really very useful in keeping this book for review ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bipolar Disorder    2. Manic-depressive illness    3. Medical    4. Mental Disorders    5. Mood Disorders    6. Psychiatry - General    7. Psychology    8. Reference    9. Treatment    10. therapy    11. Psychiatry   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. General    4. Great Britain    5. Health    6. Manic-depressive persons    7. Mental Depression    8. Mood Disorders    9. Psychology    10. Wigoder, David   

Subjects:  1. Medical / Nursing    2. Psychiatry - General    3. Psychology    4. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    5. Medical / Psychiatry    6. Psychiatry   

Subjects:  1. Affective disorders    2. Chemotherapy    3. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    4. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    5. Depression, Mental    6. General    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. Manic-depressive illness    10. Social Science - Psychology    11. Popular medicine    12. Psychology   

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Giant Steps - On Eagle's Wings
When Jason Auell was born on April 22, 1980, autism/Asperger's research was starting to take off.He developed within normal limits as did his brother Luke, who was born on November 30, 1981.
I liked the book
It was a good book on helping me to know how to let go of my child as he grows older and teaching him independent living skills. I was so pleased with the book and how much it taught me. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. General    5. Mental Health    6. Personal Memoirs    7. Biography & Autobiography / General    8. Mental health services   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Psychology    3. Self-Help    4. Self-Help & Practical Interests    5. Self-Help / General   

Reviews (4)

The Tragedy of Ignorance Concerning Manic Depression
I was window shoppping at Amazon.com as I often love to do when I came across a book that I have treasured for some time. I was dismayed to see that Peter Dally's magnificent tour de force was not being recognized as such. Frankly, it is beyond comprehension that this would be so! One cannot understand the scope and depth of Virginia Woolf without reference to the marriage to which she so desperately needed in order to achieve the balance and stability necessary (given her illness) which resulted in our watershed of wonder in having such Masterpieces to read and enjoy today! Also, Dally's most compassionate view of her bipolar disorder provides to anyone who has had real experience with this disease profound insight into a curse, really, for so many artists that surely would have resulted in her suicide far sooner had it not been for Leonard Woolf. Surely, he is not perfect. No one is. But Dally provides that all-important insight into the need for all of us to accept the fact that no man or woman is an island unto themselves and in the absence of another upon whom we can rely in times of trial and trouble -- we are all lost. Given the unimaginable low price for this book, if you love VW -- you will not be disappointed!

Exactly what Woolf would have expected of a doctor
This is far and away the least insightful, least knowledgeable, least useful book I've ever read about Virginia Woolf.If I ever come across a book by this doctor again, I will shun it like the plague.Here are a few of the many, many ways he went wrong: Hell is where this psychiatrist belongs
Interesting title, promising subject. But the book is a huge disappointment. If you are looking for a brief biography of Woolf that touches on her bipolar disorder, then this may be what you want. If you want any real discussion of the disorder and a decent analysis of how she developed it and how it manifested itself, go elsewhere. Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Historical - British    5. Literary    6. Specific Groups - Special Needs   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. General    4. Health    5. Manic-depressive persons    6. Medical    7. Patzer, Bruce R    8. Patzer, Bruce R.    9. United States