Fire in the Brain: Clinical Tales of Hallucination
10 best books like Fire in the Brain: Clinical Tales of Hallucination (Ronald K. Siegel): On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression, Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh, The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind, Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery, Who Are You?: 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself, Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia, Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World, A Primer of Drug Action, Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination, Maps of the Mind
On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression
| Author | Kathy Cronkite |
| ISBN | 0385314264 |
"I was ashamed. It was a confession of weakness. For years, depression meant the crazy house. As I look back at it, [my shame] just seems damned foolishness, which is one reason I talk about it now."
--Mike Wallace
"Toward the end I couldn't get up. I just physically couldn't."
--Kitty...
| Author | D.A. Stern |
| ISBN | 1578602041 |
In September of 2004, Dr. Charles Marsh arrived at the Kriegmoor Psychiatric Institute in Bayfield, Wisconsin, anxious to take on his new duties, eager to distance himself from the scandal that had forced him to resign his previous post. Among the patients assigned to Marsh at this time was a young woman...
| Author | Cheryl Paradis |
| ISBN | 0806531053 |
The defendant told the jury that he did not kill girlfriend. He "did," however, admit to dismembering her, boiling her bones, and hiding them in the Port Authority locker." At the heart of countless crimes lies the mystery of the human mind. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Cheryl Paradis draws back the...
| Author | Gail Griffith |
| ISBN | 0060598662 |
On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and...
| Author | Malcolm Godwin |
| ISBN | 0140196099 |
* What does the shape of your head and your hands tell about your personality?
* Are you left-brain or right-brain dominant? Yin or yang?
* What is your spiritual tendency?
* Are you sanguine, melancholic, choleric, or phlegmatic?
* Which is your most essential element--wood, fire,...
| Author | Patrick Tracey |
| ISBN | 0553805258 |
Well . . . I am the author, so I'll simply say that this is the book I was born to write. And I'll finally exhale and give myself a pat on the book. Our family has been pulverized by schizophrenia, the most severe form of mental illness, which follows a hereditary line from Boston back to Ireland . . . two of my...
Weapons of biological and chemical warfare have been in use for thousands of years, and Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs, Adrienne Mayor's exploration of the origins of controversial weaponry, draws extraordinary connections between the mythical worlds of Hercules and the Trojan...
| Author | Robert M. Julien |
| ISBN | 0716706156 |
A Primer of Drug Action addresses the mechanisms of action of each drug and drug class presented, current theories about the etiology of major psychological disorders and rationales for drug treatment, and the uses and limitations of psychopharmacology in patient care. Now in its Tenth Edition,...
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination
| Author | Daniel B. Smith |
| ISBN | 1594201102 |
The strange history of auditory hallucination throughout the ages, and its power to shed light on the mysterious inner source of pure faith and unadulterated inspiration.
Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill-understood tricks the human psyche...
| Author | Charles Hampden-Turner |
| ISBN | 0020768702 |
The strength of this book also contains within it its main weakness. The book lays out a variety of "maps of the mind," views as to how the brain acts. The author notes that (Page 8): "This book brings together in visual form numerous ways in which mind has been conceived." The book looks at different levels...
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality
| Author | R. Gordon Wasson |
| ISBN | 0156838001 |
One of the key enigmas of cultural history has been the identiy of a sacred plant called Soma in the ancient Rig Veda of India. Mr. Wasson has aroused considerable attention in learned circles and beyond by advancing and documenting the thesis that Soma was a hallucinogenic mushroom - none other than...
| Author | Huston Smith |
| ISBN | 1591810086 |
One would not expect Huston Smith to write about this subject, but he does and does it well and responsibly - I appreciate that he replaced 'psychedelic' by 'entheogenic'. Interesting chapters on 'soma' and LSD.
Important statement: Although the mind-altering substances he talks about can induce...
Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease
| Author | Paul Ewald |
| ISBN | 0385721846 |
According to conventional wisdom, our genes and lifestyles are the most important causes of the most deadly ailments of our time. Conventional wisdom may be wrong. In this controversial book, the eminent biologist Paul W. Ewald offers some startling arguments:
-Germs appear to be at the...
| Author | Owen J. Flanagan |
| ISBN | 0465024602 |
Traditional ideas about the basic nature of humanity are under attack as never before. The very attributes that make us human--free will, the permanence of personal identity, the existence of the soul--are being undermined and threatened by the current revolution in the science of the mind. If the...
| Author | Andrew B. Newberg |
| ISBN | 0743274970 |
WHY DO YOU BELIEVE THE THINGS YOU BELIEVE? Do you remember events differently from how they really happened? Where do your superstitions come from? How do morals evolve? Why are some people religious and others nonreligious? Everyone has thoughts and questions like these, and now Andrew Newberg and...
| Author | Norman Cohn |
| ISBN | 0226113078 |
Europe's Inner Demons is a fascinating history of the irrational need to imagine witches and an investigation of how those fantasies made the persecutions of the middle ages possible. In addition, Norman Cohn's discovery that some influential sources on European witch trials were forgeries has...
| Author | Stephen Batchelor |
| ISBN | 1594480877 |
Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on humanity's struggle between good and evil
In the national bestseller Living with the Devil, Batchelor traces the trajectory from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the writings of Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire,...
| Author | Marguerite Sechehaye |
| ISBN | 0452011337 |
This is an astonishing memoir of a young woman called only "Renee," whose descent into schizophrenia began at the age of five. Written with a diamond-sharp precision that lends it an eerie power, it tells the story of Renee's long sojourn in what she calls the "Land of Enlightenment" or "The Country of...
From Neuron to Brain: A Cellular and Molecular Approach to the Function of the Nervous System
| Author | John G. Nicholls |
| ISBN | 0878934391 |
In the 25 years since From Neuron to Brain was first published, the authors' aim has remained constantto describe how nerve cells go about their business of transmitting signals, how the signals are put together, and how, out of this integration, higher functions emerge. The new Fourth Edition,...
The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up: A True Story
| Author | Rich Blake |
| ISBN | 0307383164 |
Donny Herbert was a hardworking Buffalo city firefighter who, in December 1995, was searching the attic of a burning house when the snow-laden roof collapsed. For six minutes he was without oxygen. A beloved husband, a father of four boys, a neighborhood fixture who was always willing to lend a helping...
Rosalind Franklin and DNA
| Author | Anne Sayre |
| ISBN | 0393320448 |
OK, so it's probably a little biased because it's clear that the author was close friends with Ms Franklin, but nonetheless, it painted a very interesting picture of the woman who made many contributions to the scientific field, and who alas, received very little recognition for her work. Certainly...
| Author | J.W. Dunne |
| ISBN | 1571742344 |
J.W. Dunne (1866-1949) was an accomplished English aeronautical engineer and a designer of Britian's early military aircraft. His An Experiment with Time, first published in 1927, sparked a great deal of scientific interest in--and controversy about--his new model of multidimensional time.
A...
| Author | Ian Ridpath |
| ISBN | 0691135568 |
In this new edition of their classic work, Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion illuminate the night sky as never before, providing novice stargazers and professional astronomers alike with the most comprehensive and authoritative celestial field guide available. With superb color sky charts, diagrams,...
Bad Therapy: Master Therapists Share Their Worst Failures
| Author | Jeffrey A. Kottler |
| ISBN | 0415933234 |
Bad Therapy offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and mind's of the profession's most famous authors, thinkers, and leaders when things aren't going so well. Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson, who include their own therapy mishaps, interview twenty of the world's most famous practitioners who discuss...
| Author | Oran Canfield |
| ISBN | 0061450758 |
Oran Canfield—son of self-help guru and Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield—tells his surreal story of growing up in Long Past Stopping. In this remarkable memoir, writing with a wry and cutting edge, Canfield relates tales of a childhood in flux—being buffeted about among family...
