George Hofmann

Practicing Mental Illness

Meditation, Movement and Meaningful Work to Manage Challenging Moods

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Practicing Mental Illness is a guide to using meditation, movement and meaningful work to help manage affective disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety. Not a typical book on mindfulness, it acknowledges where mindfulness practices as taught today can be helpful, and where methods and teachings in popular mindfulness can be very damaging to people with mental illness. George Hofmann has written a subversive self-help book, which acknowledges that our society's low expectations of people with behavioral challenges contribute to the development of mental illness. He gives the reader the necessary tools to take responsibility… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78904-627-4
EAN: 9781789046274
Produktnummer: 38136800
Verlag: John Hunt Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor

After a series of hospitalizations, George Hofmann managed to overcome the worst of bipolar disorder by adding practices in focused attention to the usual therapies of medicine and talk. He is the author of Resilience: Handling Anxiety in a Time of Crisis, and maintains the site 'Practicing Mental Illness', which promotes meditation, movement and meaningful work as keys to growth and healing. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.