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"Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated as a saint, who lives in healing temples in Kerala; an incarcerated mother vying for her children's forgiveness after recovering...
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Plaza y Janés
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c2010
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El Dr. Ulises Blanco, reconocido psiquiatra, recibe una serie de correos electrónicos anónimos que le hacen reexaminar su vida y cuestionar el sentido de su profesión. De hecho, su existencia sufre un cambio radical con la lectura de los mails que le ennvía Morfeo, nombre bajo el cual se esconde el misterioso remitente. En el ciberespacio descubre la clave del enigma y el sentido de su vida.
Ulises Blanco, a recently-widowed psychiatrist, experiences...
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Penguin Press
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2018.
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"When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction, and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these ... substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips...
6) Rabbit hole
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"Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Whatever the truth is, following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown, Alice is now a long-term patient in an acute psychiatric ward. Though convinced that she doesn't really belong there, she finds companionship with the other patients in the ward despite their challenging and often intimidating issues. So...
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When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
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2021
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Halloween -- Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- Friday the 13th -- Alfred Hitchcok's Psycho -- The Hills Have Eyes -- The Final Girls -- The Strangers.
Halloween: In 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister. The silent child was incarcerated in the Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of psychiatrist Sam Loomis. Michael's hometown of Haddonfield was slowly beginning to forget the tragic crime. That is, until Sam returns to the...
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