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Mindsight : the new science of personal transformation / by Siegel, Daniel J.,1957-(CARDINAL)351458;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-300) and index.Part I. The path to well-being: mindsight illuminated. A broken brain, a lost soul: the triangle of well-being -- Minding the brain: the brain in the palm of your hand -- Crepes of wrath: mindsight lost and found -- Minding the brain: neuroplasticity in a nutshell -- Leaving the ether dome: where is the mind? -- Minding the brain: riding the resonance circuits -- The complexity choir: discovering the harmony of health. Part II. The power to change: mindsight in action. A roller-coaster mind: strengthening the hub of awareness -- Half a brain in hiding: balancing left and right -- Cut off from the neck down: reconnecting the mind and the body -- Prisoners of the past: memory, trauma, and recovery -- Making sense of our lives: attachment and the storytelling brain -- Our multiple selves: getting in touch with the core -- The neurobiology of "we": becoming advocates for one another -- Time and tides: confronting uncertainty and mortality -- Epilogue: widening the circle: expanding the self.Inspiring and informative, "Mindsight" offers exciting new proof that people aren't hardwired to behave in certain ways, but instead have the ability to harness the power of their minds to resculpt the neural pathways of their brains.
Subjects: Mind and body therapies.; Mind and body.; Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.; Therapies.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 7
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A fractured mind : my life with multiple personality disorder / by Oxnam, Robert B.(CARDINAL)513819;
The heartbreaking memoir of a prominent scholar's long journey to put the pieces of his fractured life together. In 1989, Oxnam, successful China scholar and president of the Asia Society, faced up to what he thought was his biggest personal challenge: alcoholism. But this dependency masked a problem far more serious: multiple personality disorder. At the peak of his professional career, Oxnam was haunted by periodic blackouts and episodic rages. After his family and friends intervened, Oxnam received help from a psychiatrist and entered a rehab center. It wasn't until six months later that the first of Oxnam's eleven alternate personalities--an angry young boy named Tommy--suddenly emerged. With the therapist's help, Oxnam began the exhausting and fascinating process of uncovering his many personalities and the childhood trauma that caused his condition.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Oxnam, Robert B.; Multiple personality; Multiple personality;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 14
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The healing cell : how the greatest revolution in medical history is changing your life / by Smith, Robin L.,1962-(CARDINAL)476894; Gomez, Max.(CARDINAL)463663; Trafny, Tomasz.(CARDINAL)402610;
"Stories of real health struggles of real people and the exciting scientific improvements and cures many of them are experiencing because of adult stem cell research and treatment."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Stem cells; Stem cells;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Sex with a brain injury : on concussion and recovery / by Liontas, Annie,author.(CARDINAL)621499;
Includes bibliographical references."For readers of Meghan O'Rourke's The Invisible Kingdom, Esme Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias, and Melissa Febos's Girlhood, a powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays that sheds light on the silent epidemic of head trauma.Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking wounded," facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother's battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas weaves history, philosophy, and personal accounts to interrogate and expand representations of mental health, ability, and disability-particularly in relation to women and the LGBT community. She uncovers the surprising legacy of brain injury, examining its role in culture, the criminal justice system, and through historical figures like Henry VIII and Harriet Tubman. Encountering Liontas's sharp, affecting prose, the reader can imagine this kind of pain, and having to claw one's way back to a new normal. The hidden gift of injury, Liontas writes, is the ability to connect with others. For the millions of people who have suffered from concussions and for those who have endeavored to support loved ones through the painful and often baffling experience of head trauma, this astonishing and compassionate narrative offers insight and hope in equal measure"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Liontas, Annie; Brain; Brain; Brain;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Tell me what you like : an honest discussion of sex and intimacy after sexual assault / by Simon, Katie,author.aut.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Over a decade ago, Katie Simon began seeking out stories of people who faced sexual challenges after sexual trauma-just as she did. Simon interviewed dozens of survivors, and her investigation yielded diverse responses from people of all backgrounds, ultimately confirming that there is no single path toward healing. Simon's research led her to life-changing findings that sexual assault survivors most want to know about, including coping with trauma triggers and traumatic stress symptoms such as anxiety, depression, physical pain, and flashbacks. From embodied consent to self-pleasure, sexual regret, breakups, and beyond, you'll find answers to all your questions about how sexual trauma affects sex and relationships within these pages, in stories told by survivors who've actually been there. Millions of survivors across the United States are treated as irreparably broken. Simon offers a positive approach to healing based on empathy and community-and the understanding and tools to navigate trauma and cultivate the sex lives we desire and deserve. The narratives Simon has gathered break down the potential obstacles to rebuilding post-assault, and offer multiple paths forward with optimistic, new approaches to sex after sexual assault. Packed with insights, stories, and advice, this invaluable guide reimagines what sex can look like-not only for survivors, but for all of us"--
Subjects: Sexual abuse victims.; Sex.; Intimacy (Psychology).;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The eighth girl : a novel / by Chung, Maxine Mei-Fung,author.(CARDINAL)823381;
In this unsettling, seductive psychological thriller, a young woman with multiple personalities is drawn into London's hellish underworld when she becomes entangled with a man who has an abominable secret, for fans of Caroline Kepnes and Clare Mackintosh.One woman, multiple personas.But which one is telling the truth?Beautiful. Damaged. Destructive. Meet Alexa W, a brilliant yet darkly self-aware young woman whose chaotic life is manipulated and controlled by a series of alternate personalities. Only three people know about their existence: her shrink Daniel; her stepmother Anna; and her enigmatic best friend Ella. The perfect trio of trust.When Ella gets a job at a high-end gentleman's club, she catches the attention of its shark-like owner and is gradually drawn into his inner circle. As Alexa's world becomes intimately entangled with Ella's, she soon finds herself the unwitting keeper of a nightmarish secret. With no one to turn to and lives at stake, she follows Ella into London's cruel underbelly on a daring rescue mission. Threatened and vulnerable, Alexa will discover whether her multiple personalities are her greatest asset, or her most dangerous obstacle.Electrifying and breathlessly compulsive, The Eighth Girl is an omnivorous examination of life with mental illness and the acute trauma of life in a misogynist world. With bingeable prose and a clinician's expertise, Chung's psychological debut deftly navigates the swirling confluence of identity, innocence, and the impossible fracturing weights that young women are forced to carry, causing us to question: Does the truth lead to self-discovery, or self-destruction?
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Multiple personality;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Unlovable / by Hayes, Darren,author.;
"Darren Hayes was always a storyteller. Growing up in suburban Queensland in the 1970s, his vivid imagination offered an escape from the realities of his daily life. Among childhood trauma, domestic violence and relentless bullying, he told himself he was going to be a pop star - and he did it. But while Savage Garden achieved astonishing success, with multiple Australian number 1s, breaking into the US charts and selling over 35 million albums worldwide, the true story of Darren's life was far more challenging than a three-minute pop song. In Unlovable, for the first time, Darren opens up about the hidden battles that shaped his journey. Behind the glamorous facade of success, he was facing anxiety and depression rooted in childhood trauma and violence, and navigating his sexuality in a world - and industry - that was not always accepting. This is not a memoir about the dizzying heights of fame; it's a survivor's story of enduring and overcoming profound lifelong scars. Told with Darren's raw honesty and lyricism, Unlovable is a magical dark fairytale that reclaims the terrors and obstacles of his past, revealing the resilient and courageous person that he is today."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Hayes, Darren.; Hayes, Darren; Savage Garden (Musical group); Singers; Victims of family violence; Rock groups;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Shark assault : an amazing story of survival / by Jennings, Peter,1948-author.; Moore, Nicole,1972-author.;
"The story of a brutal shark attack that cost a woman her arm and much of her leg, and her death-defying recovery. Nicole Moore is a Canadian nurse who suffered two incredibly rare and lethal strikes by a bull shark in waist-deep water at a Mexican resort beach--attacks all the more brutal for bring so unlikely. Nicole lost 60 percent of her blood from deep bites on her arm and leg, and almost died. She was rushed to a Mexican hospital where she received questionable medical care that left her and her family confronting physical and mental anguish. Nicole was brought back to Canada and fought for her life in a Toronto hospital, enduring horrendous pain. On the road to recovery after multiple amputations, Nicole decided to revisit the site of her attack, and decided she would become a source of inspiration for people in similar difficulties. And despite the trauma she has endured, today Nicole is an advocate for saving sharks from hunting and retribution killings."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Moore, Nicole, 1972-; Amputees; Nurses; Shark attacks; Tourists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dear Miss Metropolitan / by Ferrell, Carolyn,author.(CARDINAL)810811;
"Dear Miss Metropolitan tells the fragmented story of Fern, Gwinnie, and Jesenia, three girls abducted by a monster who calls himself Boss Man and held captive in a decaying house in Queens for a decade. Inspired by real events, the tale is inventively revealed by multiple narrators before, during and after their ordeal. Documents, newspapers, excerpts from books, photographs, interviews, and other forms of media piece together the larger story. By the time they are rescued only two of them remain and in their aftermath the "victim females" are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as the survivors, now patients in a facility, continue to adapt to their present and their unrelenting past. The mystery of the disappearance and the illumination of myths about race, gender and the definitions of community and family are at the center of this inventive and urgent fable of survival"--
Subjects: Fiction.; African American women; American fiction; Kidnapping victims; Kidnapping; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 32 / Total copies: 42
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The perfect daughter [sound recording] : a novel / by Palmer, Daniel,1962-author(CARDINAL)503333; LaVoy, Januarynarrator(CARDINAL)340930; Bittner, Dannarrator(CARDINAL)354867;
Read by January LaVoy & Dan Bittner.Grace never dreamt she'd visit her teenaged daughter Penny in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with the murder of a stranger. There was not much question of her daughter's guilt. Police had her fingerprints on the murder weapon and the victim's blood on her body and clothes. But they didn't have a motive. Grace blames herself, because that's what mothers do, they look at their choices and wonder, what if? But hindsight offers little more than the chance for regret. None of this was conceivable the day Penny came into her life. Then, it seemed like a miracle. Penny was found abandoned, with a mysterious past, and it felt like fate brought Penny to her, and her husband Arthur. But as she grew, Penny's actions grew more disturbing, and different 'personalities' emerged. Arthur and Grace took Penny to different psychiatrists, many of whom believed she was putting on a show to help manage her trauma. But Grace didn't buy it. The personas were too real, too consistent. It had to be a severe multiple personality disorder. One determined psychiatrist, Dr. Mitch McHugh, helped discover someone new inside Penny, a young girl named Abigail. Is this the nameless girl who was abandoned in the park years ago? Mitch thinks Abigail is the key to Penny's past and to the murder. But as Grace and Mitch dig deeper, they uncover dark and shocking secrets that put all their lives in grave danger.Compact discs.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Audiobooks.; Mother and child; Mothers and daughters; Adopted children; Abandoned children; Teenage girls; Psychiatrists; Multiple personality; Secrecy; Murder;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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