- Borderline Case
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
The bizarre trial of Dr. James Tyhurst on charges of sadism and sexual abuse revealed that in the practice of psychiatry little is certain, and in the courts even less.
- The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Resource Type: Book
Published: 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.
- Canadian Psychiatric Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Character Analysis
Third, Enlarged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Reich's psychoanalytic investigations of the human character.
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Gestalt Therapy
Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1951
The authors believe that the Gestalt outlook is the original, undistorted, natural approach to life, to thinking, acting and feeling.
- Going Crazy
The Radical Therapy of R.D. Laing and Others
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- HealthSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- International Encyclopaedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Neurology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- Internet Mental Health
Resource Type: Website
A free encyclopedia of mental health information created by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long.
- Killing 'Schizophrenics': Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi Psychiatry
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In the United States in the earlier part of the twentieth century, there was widespread compulsory sterilization of those diagnosed with serious mental illness; and from the 1970s through the early 1990s, dehumanizing experiments that ignored the Nuremberg Code of research ethics were administered on this population by prominent American psychiatrists.
- Mood Disorders Association of Ontario (MDAO)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- On Becoming a Counselor
A Basic Guide for Nonprofessional Counselors and Other Helpers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
A resource for those who, without extensive psychological training, must deal with troubled individuals.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 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 that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
- Our Generation
Volume 1 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1962
- The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Laing questions the concept of 'normality' and explores the psychological wepaons of construction, deprivation, splitting, and projection.
- Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Cooper argues that mainstream psychiatry has developed techniques that are largely irrelevant to the human situation. He proposes a radical social re-evaluation of the whole concept of 'madness' and outlines a new approach to the psychological problems of personal relationships.
- Psychology Psychiatry Mental Health Topic Index in Sources Directory
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to psychology, psychiatry, and mental health in the Sources directory for the media.
- The Radical Therapist
Therapy means change not adjustment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 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.
- Recovered Memories Cross the Oceans
Psychic Vibrations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
The American practice of "recovering memories" of all manner of unspeakable abuse has leaped the Atlantic, and the Pacific as well.
- A Safe Place
Laying the Groundwork of Psychotherapy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Hawkin examines the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry and asks what allows psychological healing to take place.
- St. Joseph's Health Centre -- Toronto
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Sanity, Madness and the Family
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Laing and Esterson throw doubt on the view that schizophrenia is an illness with specific symptoms and its own pathology; they suggest rather than madness may largely be a social creation and its symptoms no more than the tortured ruses of a person struggled to live in an unlivable situation.
- Stop Shock Now: Psychiatry's War Against Women and the Elderly
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Today, most people including many health professionals are surprised to learn that electroshock (ECT) is still prescribed. As we also know, women, particularly elderly women, are the main targets of electroshock -- women over 60 and many in their 80s or 90s have been shocked in Canada.
- Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Toronto Rehab
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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