The Wendell Cocktail - Couverture souple

Miles, Margaret R

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1610977319 ISBN 13 : 9781610977319

Editeur : Cascade Books, 2012

Synopsis

The Wendell Cocktail describes a major social problem, exemplified by the journals of a person with coexisting conditions--mental illness and addiction. Although there are resources for people with each of these conditions--psychiatry for mental illness and twelve-step programs for addiction--there are few effective resources for people with both. Since about half of the mentally ill medicate with an addiction, an increasingly large percentage of the American population is left without adequate care. Wendell's journals illuminate the complexity of a tormented mind that is nevertheless capable of exquisite enjoyment of music, natural beauty, and delight in the observation of birds and animals. The book's conclusion suggests approaches to understanding and better providing for persons with addiction and mental illness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Margaret R. Miles is emerita professor of historical theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. Her books include Reading Augustine on Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation (2021), The Long Goodbye (2017), Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (2011), A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750 (2008), and The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought (2005).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cascade Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1610977319
• ISBN 13: 9781610977319
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 110
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• Personne responsable: non disponible