Memoirs of Mental Health and Madness

Any substance use disorder is a biopsychosocial phenomenon with risk and protective at these various levels interacting. At the biological ...

DSM-IV Multi-Axial Diagnosis for SMASHED Axis I 303.90 Alcohol Dependence, With physiological dependence Axis II V71.09 No Diagnosis Ax...

SMASHED: STORY OF A DRUNKEN GIRLHOOD, is Koren Zailcka’s memoir detailing her nine- year battle with alcohol, which began when she first tri...

Girl, Interrupted is Susanna Kaysen’s memoir. In this book she writes about her experience as a psychiatric patient in the 1960s. Susanna w...

Augusten requested to attend a specialized rehab that was designed for people who are gay and lesbian. This seemed to motivate him to atten...

These questions from Solution-Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing could be used to find out more about Augusten's strengths an...

Onset of the Disorder Biological RISK • Family history of substance abuse (father) • Family history of mental disorder (mother) • Male PROTE...