Research Catalog

Title

The sanity of survival : reflections on community mental health and wellness / Carl C. Bell.

Author

Bell, Carl C.

Publication

Chicago : Third World Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xli, 534 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• African Americans > Mental health
• African Americans > Mental health services
• Community mental health services > United States
• Community psychiatry > United States
• Community Psychiatry > Collected Works
• African Americans > psychology > Collected Works
• Mental Disorders > ethnology > Collected Works

Note

• Articles previously published in varous sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Black-on-black murder: a community psychiatry response (black-on-black homicide: the National Medical Association's responsibilities & letter to the editor on black-on-black murder) -- Preventive strategies for dealing with violence among blacks -- Stress-related disorders in African-American children -- Intervention research and advocacy -- The role of psychiatric emergency services in creating alternatives to hospitalization in an inner city population -- Security procedures in a psychiatric emergency service -- The need for psychoanalysis is alive and well in community psychiatry -- Preventive psychiatry in the Board of Education -- The need for accreditation of correctional health care facilities -- Treating violent families -- Interface between psychiatry and the law on the issue of murder -- Coma and the etiology of violence, part 1 -- Coma and the etiology of violence, part 2 -- Head injury with subsequent intermittent, non-schizophrenic, psychotic symptoms and violence -- The need for victimization screening in a black psychiatric population -- The need for victimization screening in a poor, outpatient medical population -- Circumstances of sexual and physical victimization of black psychiatric outpatients -- Traumatic stress and children -- States of consciousness -- Black intrapsychic survival skills: altering one's states of consciousness -- Altered states of consciousness profile: an Afrocentric intrapsychic evaluation tool -- The prevalence of isolated sleep paralysis in blacks -- Further studies on the prevalence of isolated sleep paralysis in black subjects -- The relationship between isolated sleep paralysis, panic disorder, and hypertension -- The prevalence of episodes of coma in black subjects -- The misdiagnosis of black patients with manic depressive illness, part 1 -- The misdiagnosis of black patients with manic depressive illness, part 2 -- The need for minority curriculum content in psychiatric training -- Training psychiatric residents to treat blacks -- Impaired black health professionals: vulnerabilities and treatment approaches -- A response to J.E. Schutte's "Growth standards for blacks: current status" -- Treatment issues for African-American men -- Racism, narcissism, and integrity -- Racism: a symptom of the narcissistic personality disorder -- Endurance, strength, and coordination exercises that do not cause cardiovascular or respiratory stress -- Psychoneuroendocrinology, biorhythms, and Chinese medicine -- Promoting mental health through the coaching of competitive sports.

Call Number

Sc *Ref Third World Press

ISBN

• 0883782677 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780883782675 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0883782138 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780883782132 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004015267

OCLC

55801350

Author

Bell, Carl C.

Title

The sanity of survival : reflections on community mental health and wellness / Carl C. Bell.

Imprint

Chicago : Third World Press, c2004.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc *Ref Third World Press

Sc E 08-1536