Dark Days : Shedding Light on Depression

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Dark Days Shedding Light on Depression

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Mad muse : the mental illness memoir in a writer's life and work by Berman, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald: "The Authority of Failure" -- Sherwin Nuland: "I was an Impostor" -- The Wounded Storyteller -- The Difference Between Survival Stories and Triumph Narratives -- Writing/Righting Wrong -- The Plan of this Book -- Questions -- 1-"The Landscape Of Depression": William Styron and Darkness Visible -- "BEYOND EXPRESSION" -- "THE LANDSCAPE OF DEPRESSION" -- LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS -- A WRAITHLIKE OBSERVER -- A MIRROR OF STYRON'S CHILDHOOD LIFE -- SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE -- THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER -- SOPHIE'S CHOICE -- "MALIGNANT DEPRESSION" -- STINGO'S RESCUE FANTASIES -- "A STUDY IN THE CONQUEST OF GRIEF" -- "MY WRITING HAD KEPT SERIOUS EMOTIONAL DISTRESS SAFELY AT BAY" -- STYRON'S HEART OF DARKNESS -- WHY MEMOIR? …”
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Light in the darkness : living well after trauma

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Sadness, Depression, and the Dark Night of the Soul : Transcending the Medicalisation of Sadness. by Durà-Vilà, Glòria

Table of Contents: “…-- Reflecting on the challenges of the research -- Potential positive effect of the research -- Organisation of the book -- Note -- Part I -- Setting the Literary and Historical Contexts -- Looking back at the origins of the study -- Note -- Chapter 1 -- Depression and the Medicalisation of Sadness: Conceptualisation and Help-Seeking -- Medicalisation of sadness and suffering -- The role of culture and religion -- Help-seeking and coping with sadness and depression -- Note -- Chapter 2 -- The Role of the Clergy in the Management of Sadness and Depression, and Their Collaboration with Mental Health Professionals -- Psychiatrists' attitudes regarding the clergy's involvement in mental health care -- The clergy as a resource for mental health -- Collaboration between the clergy and psychiatrists -- Pastoral care, spiritual direction and the sacrament of confession -- Chapter 3 -- Sketches on the Catholic Church and Monasticism -- The state of the Church and the clergy -- An historical overview of the Cistercian and Augustinian Orders -- Ethnographic research into monasticism -- Notes -- Part II -- Unfolding the Narratives of Sadness and Spiritual Growth -- Chapter 4 -- The Participants and Their Ways of Life -- Fieldwork and interviews -- 57 faces, 57 stories -- Differences between the monks and the nuns -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Conceptualisation of Sadness, Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul -- Normal sadness and pathological sadness: conceptualisation and distinction -- The Dark Night of the Soul: a case of non-pathological religious sadness -- Religion as a cause for pathological sadness.…”
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Healing Intelligence : the Spirit in Psychotherapy, Working with Darkness and Light by Mulhern, Alan

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Even the dark by Williams, Leslie, 1967-

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Depression : the sun always rises by Ashmore, Margaret, 1953-

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Risking Light.

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Literary illumination : the evolution of artificial light in nineteenth-century literature by Leahy, Richard

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Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature. Episode 19, Victim Blaming and the Just-World Hypothesis.

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Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature. Episode 21, Forgiveness and Redemption.

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Light in the Darkness, Living Well After Trauma

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The Dark Side of a Pill

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The architecture of light : architectural lighting design concepts and techniques : a textbook of procedures and practices for the architect, interior designer and lighting designe... by Russell, Sage

Table of Contents: “…Part I: The Fundamentals of Light: -- The Design Mentality -- The Power and Purpose of Light -- More Impact with Less Ligth -- Adding Light in Layers -- Physical Basics of Light -- Physiology of Vision -- The Color Science of Light Sources -- Electric Light Sources -- Part II: Designing Light: -- Textures of Light -- Shapes of Light -- Location of the Light Source -- Building Light from Darkness -- Developing Lighting Ideas -- Identifying Concepts in Light -- Lighting that Works -- Designing with Daylight -- Graphic Tools: Rendering and Light Maps -- Lighting Units and Measurements -- Understanding Illuminance Levels -- Lighting Calculations -- Part III: Deliverables: -- Deciphering Manufactures' Literature and Cut Sheets -- Selecting Luminaries: A Basic Family -- Switching, Dimming and Control Systems -- The Preliminary Lighting Layour "Redline" -- Luminaire Schedules and Cut Sheets -- The Lighting Plan -- Lighting Layouts for Residential Spaces -- Lighting Layouts for Light Commercial Spaces -- Common Lighting Details -- Daylight and Electric Light Integration Details -- Part IV: Final Thought on Design: -- The Fundamental Lighting Design Process -- Green Design and Sustainability -- Designing with New Eyes.…”


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The light inside the shadow : an anthology of works by Blue Board members

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Kathleen Griffiths -- INSIDE THE SHADOW : Darkness -- Tears / snowy -- No Light Without Darkness / 4rensicDJ -- Deepression / Silenus -- Sinking / MissingLink -- Sinking Deeper / GonePirate -- We see it shades of red and rust / unlucky? …”
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Death Occurred Last Night.

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Here. Is. Better.

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Communication ethics in dark times : Hannah Arendt's rhetoric of warning and hope by Arnett, Ronald C., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : Modernity as Gollum - Arendt's Warning -- The Derivative Self and the Responsive Turn : Love and Saint Augustine -- The Desire to Belong : Rahel Varnhagen -- Totalization and Organized Loneliness : The Origins of Totalitarianism -- A Community of Memory at Risk : Between Past and Future -- Modernity's Amnesia, Forgotten Existential Demands : The Human Condition -- The Taken-for-Granted : On Revolution -- The Banality of Evil : Eichmann in Jerusalem -- The Temporality of Judgment : Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy -- Lamp Holders and Holy Sparks : Men in Dark Times -- Forgotten Roots : Crises of the Republic -- Recovering Human Meaning, the Silent Side of Speech : Essays in Understanding -- Otherwise Than Convention : Responsibility and Judgment -- An Enlarged Mentality : The Promise of Politics -- Clarity of a Situated and Responsive Voice : The Jewish Writings -- Navigating Darkness : Responsibility and The Life of the Mind -- Countering the Magic of Modernity : Meeting Darkness and Rejecting Artificial Light.…”
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Motherhood, mental illness and recovery : stories of hope

Table of Contents: “…Supporting Mothers Living with Mental Illnesses in Recovery -- Modes of Experience and Understanding: Parenting Assessment for Mothers with Serious Mental Illness and Child Protective Service Involvement -- When Your Patient Has Children: How the Clinician Can Support Good Parenting -- Mothers Are Everywhere: Finding Stories of Motherhood in a State Psychiatric Hospital -- Pregnancy and the Perinatal Period -- Substance Use Disorders and Motherhood -- Legal Issues Regarding Children -- LGBT Mothers -- Once Upon A Time I Was Silent -- Moving Out of Darkness -- As My Heart Beats -- Don't Give Up -- Pregnant on the Psychiatric Unit: One Woman's Journey Through the State Mental Health System and into Motherhood -- There and Back Again -- Be True to Yourself -- Second Chance Motherhood -- Love Endures Time -- Postpartum Psychosis Forever Changed My Life -- Shine Your Light into Darkness -- Finding Hope When There Is None -- Too Few Memories -- Until a Better Time Comes -- Post-Traumatic Mothering -- Emotional High to Deep Despair -- It's Okay to Get Help -- Hope Soars -- Motherhood Saved My Life -- The Darkness Isn't So Dark Anymore -- An Eccentric Mother -- Together We Are Whole -- Worried Sick: Postpartum Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- Little Rays of Sunshine -- Healing Daughter, Healing Mother -- Learning, Loving, and Giving Back -- The Best Mother I Can Be -- No Perfect Parent -- A Day in the Life of Bipolar Disorder -- Family Secrets -- Find Your Light -- Mental Illness and the Pursuit of Stability Across Three Generations -- Coming into the Light -- Hard Work and Love -- An Unquiet Mom: Much More Than a Memoir of a Mother with Bipolar Disorder and Substance Abuse -- Shadow Mothers -- River of Resilience: A Daughter's Memories of Becoming Whole -- Reaching Back for Reason and Resilience.…”
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