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  • Faith and Major Mental Illness
    Marcia A. Murphy
    How does the process of coping with major mental illness influence the spiritual life? And, also, the reverse: How does faith influence a mental health condition? In this work the author discusses a major mental illness—her own—and delves into whether recovery is possible from a personal perspective. As a person who was devastated by schizophrenia, post-traumatic st...
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    10,04 €

  • Faith and Major Mental Illness
    Marcia A. Murphy
    How does the process of coping with major mental illness influence the spiritual life? And, also, the reverse: How does faith influence a mental health condition? In this work the author discusses a major mental illness--her own--and delves into whether recovery is possible from a personal perspective. As a person who was devastated by schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disor...
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    23,26 €

  • Concerning the Importance of God for Mental Health
    Marcia A. Murphy
    Everyone’s response or lack of response to the big and deeper questions influences the trajectory of their daily lives, i.e., how they think, feel, and act. It affects the way they treat others and even how they treat themselves. It determines their goals and ambitions or lack thereof. How they deal with stress and life’s challenges is directly an outcome of their view of the b...
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    24,16 €

  • Concerning the Importance of God for Mental Health
    Marcia A. Murphy
    Everyone’s response or lack of response to the big and deeper questions influences the trajectory of their daily lives, i.e., how they think, feel, and act. It affects the way they treat others and even how they treat themselves. It determines their goals and ambitions or lack thereof. How they deal with stress and life’s challenges is directly an outcome of their view of the b...
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    11,08 €

  • Knitting with Barbed Wire
    Marcia A. Murphy
    Knitting With Barbed Wire is imagery to stimulate thought for a myriad of benevolent activities which at first appear beautiful and helpful, but in reality are exclusion and ostracization for those who are different--different in appearance, race, economic status, or abilities--who are clearly not welcome. The metallic, rusty, and sharp barbed wire emotionally, socially, and ph...
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    7,21 €

  • Knitting with Barbed Wire
    Marcia A. Murphy
    Knitting With Barbed Wire is imagery to stimulate thought for a myriad of benevolent activities which at first appear beautiful and helpful, but in reality are exclusion and ostracization for those who are different--different in appearance, race, economic status, or abilities--who are clearly not welcome. The metallic, rusty, and sharp barbed wire emotionally, socially, and ph...
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    20,52 €

  • The Compassionate Psychiatrist
    Marcia A. Murphy
    I owe my psychiatric recovery process to several key figures. Russell Noyes Jr., MD, was one such personality, a physician without whom I would have undoubtedly been homeless, starving, and without hope. Hope, then, is key and Dr. Noyes was the embodiment of hope offered as a sacrifice to heal the wounded soul. He said that God had called him to be a psychiatrist. He touched ma...
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    22,93 €

  • The Compassionate Psychiatrist
    Marcia A. Murphy
    I owe my psychiatric recovery process to several key figures. Russell Noyes Jr., MD, was one such personality, a physician without whom I would have undoubtedly been homeless, starving, and without hope. Hope, then, is key and Dr. Noyes was the embodiment of hope offered as a sacrifice to heal the wounded soul. He said that God had called him to be a psychiatrist. He touched ma...
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    10,04 €

  • Homeless
    Marcia A. Murphy
    This book addresses the tragic suffering of the homeless. When we can get to the root causes of homelessness, identify them, and address them, this is helpful in assisting those who are unhoused. By sharing the story of one extraordinary individual, the author illustrates how many factors are involved in a person’s past that are interrelated and which influence each other’s out...
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    12,10 €

  • Homeless
    Marcia A. Murphy
    This book addresses the tragic suffering of the homeless. When we can get to the root causes of homelessness, identify them, and address them, this is helpful in assisting those who are unhoused. By sharing the story of one extraordinary individual, the author illustrates how many factors are involved in a person’s past that are interrelated and which influence each other’s out...
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    25,05 €

  • Schizophrenia and Suicide
    Marcia A. Murphy
    In Schizophrenia and Suicide: Finding Hope, Meaning, and Direction, the author shares how, as a person with schizophrenia, the thought of suicide, for her, and also for others with this disease, can be a constant threat to their well-being. In this book she explores the topic of survival for people who have a mental illness, for whom self-destruction through suicide is all too ...
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    6,55 €

  • Schizophrenia and Suicide
    Marcia A. Murphy
    In Schizophrenia and Suicide: Finding Hope, Meaning, and Direction, the author shares how, as a person with schizophrenia, the thought of suicide, for her, and also for others with this disease, can be a constant threat to their well-being. In this book she explores the topic of survival for people who have a mental illness, for whom self-destruction through suicide is all too ...
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    20,60 €

  • A Small Handbook of Mental Health
    Marcia A. Murphy
    Writing by seriously mentally ill people is not common. The illness makes effective communication difficult, and for this reason, the writing they do is important. It provides insights into what the mentally ill experience. Also, it is a sharing of experience that may reduce the isolation and increase the sense of belonging among those who are ill. And fellow sufferers may pay ...
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    23,23 €

  • A Small Handbook of Mental Health
    Marcia A. Murphy
    Writing by seriously mentally ill people is not common. The illness makes effective communication difficult, and for this reason, the writing they do is important. It provides insights into what the mentally ill experience. Also, it is a sharing of experience that may reduce the isolation and increase the sense of belonging among those who are ill. And fellow sufferers may pay ...
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    9,61 €

  • Reflections on the Meaning of Mental Integrity
    Marcia A. Murphy / Marcia AMurphy
    How is mental integrity (the state of being complete, whole) achieved in light of serious mental illness? The author’s intent is that this work will be a source of insight and healing for many and that it will equip the church, conjoined with the medical/scientific field of psychiatry, to do a better job of enabling people living with mental illness to access the resources they...
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    14,41 €

  • Reflections on the Meaning of Mental Integrity
    Marcia A. Murphy / Marcia AMurphy
    How is mental integrity (the state of being complete, whole) achieved in light of serious mental illness? The author’s intent is that this work will be a source of insight and healing for many and that it will equip the church, conjoined with the medical/scientific field of psychiatry, to do a better job of enabling people living with mental illness to access the resources they...
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    27,67 €

  • The Collected Writings of Marcia A. Murphy
    Marcia A. Murphy / Marcia AMurphy
    The psychotic break occurred when I was in the vulnerable twenties, for me, a naive time of adventure and risks; and I was devastated. Only later was I to learn that psychotic episodes and hallucinations may have real-world significance. My own experience told me this but the view of scientific psychiatry that was drummed into me by family, counselors, doctors, etc., made me do...
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    16,05 €

  • The Collected Writings of Marcia A. Murphy
    Marcia A. Murphy / Marcia AMurphy
    The psychotic break occurred when I was in the vulnerable twenties, for me, a naive time of adventure and risks; and I was devastated. Only later was I to learn that psychotic episodes and hallucinations may have real-world significance. My own experience told me this but the view of scientific psychiatry that was drummed into me by family, counselors, doctors, etc., made me do...
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    29,41 €

  • To Loose the Bonds of Injustice
    Marcia A. Murphy / Marcia AMurphy
    This work is the first to address the living conditions of the mentally ill from the standpoint of social justice. It is the first for religion to partner with the psychiatric field from a spiritual vantage point to improve the lives of those afflicted with medical, social, and spiritual maladies. It is written by someone who has lived with the challenges of a marginalized huma...
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    18,64 €

  • To Loose the Bonds of Injustice
    Marcia A. Murphy / Marcia AMurphy
    This work is the first to address the living conditions of the mentally ill from the standpoint of social justice. It is the first for religion to partner with the psychiatric field from a spiritual vantage point to improve the lives of those afflicted with medical, social, and spiritual maladies. It is written by someone who has lived with the challenges of a marginalized huma...
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    36,74 €

  • Voices in the Rain
    Marcia A. Murphy / Marcia Murphy
    This is the story of a woman’s struggle with mental illness through which she finds spiritual meaning and, ultimately, God.As a person who has experience severe psychiatric illness and landed on her feet, Marcia A. Murphy offers a unique first-person perspective. She is qualified to tell what such illness is like, its symptoms, stigmatization, hospitalizations, and daily life. ...
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    23,06 €