Agness Jacket

Author : Gail A. Hornstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351535951
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agnes's Jacket written by Gail A. Hornstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other psychiatric patients have managed to get their stories out, or to publish them on their own. Today, in a vibrant network of peer-advocacy groups all over the world, those with firsthand experience of emotional distress are working together to unravel the mysteries of madness and to help one another recover. Agnes’s Jacket tells their story, focusing especially on the Hearing Voices Network (HVN), an international collaboration of professionals, people with lived experience, and their families and friends who have been working to develop an alternative approach to coping with voices, visions, and other extreme states that is empowering and useful and does not start from the assumption that such people have a chronic illness. A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric conditions and the experiences of those who suffer. Hornstein’s work helps us to bridge that gulf, guiding us through the inner lives of those diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar illness, depression, and paranoia, and emerging with nothing less than a new model for understanding one another and ourselves.

Author : Irene Latham
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1512439932
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love, Agnes written by Irene Latham and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In California, Agnes, a giant Pacific octopus, pens a series of postcards to strangers from both above and below the pier.

Author : Hannah Kent
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316243906
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burial Rites written by Hannah Kent and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard. Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?

Author : Agnes Humbert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608192458
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Résistance written by Agnes Humbert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance-very likely the first such group to fight back against the occupation. (In fact, their newsletter, Résistance, gave the French Resistance its name.) In the throes of their struggle for freedom, the members of Humbert's group were betrayed to the Gestapo; Humbert herself was imprisoned. I n immediate, electrifying detail, Humbert describes her resistance against the Nazis, her time in prison, and the horrors she endured in a string of German labor camps, always retaining-in spite of everything-hope for herself, for her friends, and for humanity. Originally published in France in 1946, the book is now translated into English for the first time.

Author : Candace Fleming
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN 13 : 9780689851186
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Agnes Caws written by Candace Fleming and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eight-year-old Agnes Peregrine, an accomplished birdcaller, travels with her parents to the Himalayas in search of the elusive pink-headed duck, she encounters a dastardly foe.

Author : Gail A. Hornstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906245450
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agnes's Jacket written by Gail A. Hornstein and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gail A. Hornstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agnes's Jacket written by Gail A. Hornstein and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other patients have managed to get their stories out, at least in disguised form. Today, in a vibrant underground net-work of "psychiatric survivor groups" all over the world, patients work together to unravel the mysteries of madness and help one another re-cover. Optimistic, courageous, and surprising, Agnes's Jacket takes us from a code-cracking bunker during World War II to the church basements and treatment centers where a whole new way of understanding the mind has begun to take form. A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric illness and the experiences of those who suffer. Hornstein's luminous work helps us bridge that gulf, guiding us through the inner lives of those diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar illness, depression, and paranoia and emerging with nothing less than a new model for understanding one another and ourselves.--From publisher description

Author : Shannon Dunn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190858761
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing the Distress of Psychosis written by Shannon Dunn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even among mental health clinicians, the communications of individuals experiencing psychosis have historically been considered mysterious, bizarre, and invalid. These judgmental, inaccurate interpretations and accusatory attitudes can cause iatrogenic trauma, a significant obstacle to recovery. Healing the Distress of Psychosis focuses on practice-based and evidence-informed interventions to effectively understand and communicate with people who are experiencing psychotic symptoms. The text thoughtfully describes: the experience of psychosis, as well as the unique intervention method of fostering the therapeutic relationship; and the psychotic thought process from neurological, linguistic, and existential-psychological perspectives. Mental health professionals, individuals with lived psychotic experiences, and their family members and loved ones will find this book to be a strong and accurate voice that highlights the past and present disappointments in mainstream public mental health treatment, while delivering hope in creating a secure, self-determined life.

Author : Judy King
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803135190
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agnes's Broken Dreams written by Judy King and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been thirty years since Agnes last visited the country of her birth and upbringing. While it is at the request of her aging, narcissistic mother, she has her own reasons for making the journey to Australia from her home on Mallorca. Something has blighted her life since childhood. Something has cast such a long shadow over her existence that her ability to grasp at life fully, to appreciate her own sense of self-worth, to attain any semblance of happiness, to trust without reservation, has been damaged. Those whom she chooses, and who choose her, seem to want only to exploit her. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy, Agnes can now return to re-experience the places that featured in her youth in the hope that burning questions will be answered, haunting mysteries solved, and buried memories let out into the light… This is the vibrant, heartening, and often amusing tale of a buoyant and irrepressible woman whose natural energy and determination continue to drive her forward. Having reached middle age, she is determined to grapple with - and heal - the ills that have beset her.

Author : Eileen Thornton
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agnes Lockwood Mysteries Collection written by Eileen Thornton and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All 5 Agnes Lockwood Mysteries in one volume! Murder on Tyneside: After Agnes returns to catch up with her past in Northeast England, she gets tangled in a mystery involving theft and murder. Together with her old friend, Chief Inspector Alan Johnson, the two race against time to bring the killer to justice. Death on Tyneside: Having gained quite the reputation as an amateur sleuth, Agnes returns to Tyneside after a few months abroad. But on her first day back in the city, she gets caught up in another murder investigation. Now a DCI with the Newcastle police force, Alan Johnson teams up with Agnes to solve the mystery. Vengeance On Tyneside: Returning from a trip to the coast, Agnes finds a body near Newcastle Central Station, and DCI Alan Johnson quickly sets up an investigation. They soon learn that this is only the first case of its kind, and Agnes is keen to help with the investigation. Alan insists that Agnes stay away from the case, but she has never been a woman to be put off so easily. A Mystery On Tyneside: Agnes Lockwood is no stranger to crime scenes, but even she is shocked after finding the body of a man on the floor of the ladies' room. With her partner, DCI Alan Johnson, they set about tracking the murderer. As Agnes begins to pull the loose ends together, the two realize they're now in danger too. Can they find the killer before another life is lost - and avoid becoming the next victims?