How do you define good mental health? This controversial, counterintuitive, and altogether fascinating book argues that "psychological normality" is neither a desirable nor an acceptable standard. Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health is a groundbreaking work, the first book-length study to question the equation of psychological normality and mental health. Its author, Dr. Steven James Bartlett, musters compelling evidence and careful analysis to challenge the paradigm accepted by mental health theorists and practitioners, a paradigm that is not only wrong, but can be damaging to those to whom it is applied-and to society as a whole. In this bold, multidisciplinary work, Bartlett critiques the presumed standard of normality that permeates contemporary consciousness. Showing that the current concept of mental illness is fundamentally unacceptable because it is scientifically unfounded and the result of flawed thinking, he argues that adherence to the gold standard of psychological normality leads to nothing less than cultural impoverishment. Multiple descriptive examples of ways in which the equation of psychological normality with good mental health leads us astray An account of the principal contributors who have urged that psychological normality is not a desirable or justifiable standard of good mental health A historical account of the main psychological factors that have led to our current failing model and practice of higher education

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A collection of 36 self-penned poems covering a wide range of subjects in a variety of styles and poetic forms.

A mix of mystery and history, Gourmet Ghosts is a unique guide to more than 40 haunted bars and restaurants in Los Angeles. Including new and previously-unpublished stories, photographs and eyewitness accounts, this book also digs into the newspaper archives to find out if there's any truth to the tales - and offers tips on the best food, drink and Happy Hours. From Downtown to Hollywood and from West Hollywood to the Westside, you can find out which booth to choose if you want to dine with a ghost, read about "The Night Watchman" at the Spring Arts Tower, walk in the steps of "Glover's Ghost" at Yamashiro or examine the strange pictures from the Queen Mary and the Mandrake Bar. Your table is ready

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In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist.

In Christ's Journal, bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett takes a daring step in this unique novel and places the reader for the first time in the shoes of The Fisherman. In this finely crafted and historically accurate portrait of the ancient Biblical world, Bartlett recreates the moving story of the last months of Christ's life as Jesus Himself may have experienced them when He brought to mankind a message of love and enduring hope. Beautifully illustrated by the author, who is also a well-known artist.

In Sappho's Journal, bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her loves, her sense of beauty, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. Beautifully illustrated by the author, also well known as an artist.