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Years of Silence Are Past My Father's Life with Bipolar Disorder

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ISBN-10: 0511061234

ISBN-13: 9780511061233

Edition: N/A

Authors: Stephen P. Hinshaw

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This work presents the life history of a philosopher who experienced severe, recurrent, and misdiagnosed mental disorder. The compelling narrative portrays the father's seventy-five years: his childhood and adolescence, his high levels of achievement, intermixed with recurrent episodes and brutal hospitalizations, his marriage and family life, his tenderness as a father, and his gradual decline following years of maltreated bipolar disorder. Themes of self-image, resilience, causes of serious mental disorder, accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment, and linkages between social context and mental disturbance are intermixed with the narrative. Alternately harrowing and uplifting, this…    
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List price: $30.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: E-Book 
Language: English

Theodore P. Beauchaine, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle Dr. Beauchaine is the Robert Bolles & Yasuko Endo endowed Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He recently received an Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association for his work addressing neurobiological vulnerabilities and environmental risk factors for conduct problems and depression.Stephen P. Hinshaw, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Dr. Hinshaw is Chair of the Psychology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. An internationally recognized scholar in the area of developmental psychopathology, he is Incoming Editor of Psychological Bulletin…