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Arnhild Lauveng "Tomorrow I was Always a Lion"

29.01.2014

  Arnhild Lauveng "Tomorrow I was Always a Lion" The first book of Norwegian author "Tomorrow I was Always a Lion" was issued in 2005. It's an amazing book of amazing author, who had a diagnosis of schizophrenia for about 10 years. Nowadays Arnhild is healthy, she returned to study and work. Arnhild achieved a degree in psychology and works as at the Kongsvinger Psychiatric Center in Norway, where she can help people with schizophrenia....

Arnhild Lauveng "As useless as a rose"

29.01.2014

  Arnhild Lauveng "As useless as a rose" I already described the first Arnhild's book  "Tomorrow I was Always a Lion". Clinical psycologist who won schizophrenia continues the theme. "As useless as a rose" as well as the first one is "written by author's blood". I'd recommend to start with the first book before reading this one.  

Carol Parrish-Harra "The new age handbook on death and dying"

29.01.2014

Carol Parrish-Harra "The new age handbook on death and dying"       It's good but while not easy to read. The author takes a lot from books of Swiss-born psychiatrist Doctor Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. I think it's better to start with the groundbreaking book "On Death and Dying" by Kübler-Ross, where there are the same five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.  

The man who mistook his wife for a hat

25.02.2014

Here Dr. Sacks recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders: people afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations; patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been...

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