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Healthy Food Healthy Mind
Hospital Food with Flair - a selection of recipes from Perth Clinic's executive chef
Mark Longton, photography by Robert Frith Acorn Photography, Design by M3 Design Co
Whoever said hospital meals are awful? It can only be those who have never tasted the wonderful food prepared by Mark Longton, Executive Chef and the catering staff of the Perth Clinic.
So here it is, Healthy Food Healthy Mind, the first edition of a cookbook presenting hospital food in a way that is unexpected, using fresh seasonal products and restaurant style cooking. Experience for yourself Perth Clinic’s tasty treats that are simple to prepare and full of tempting flavours.
“Healthy Food Healthy Mind” contains many of the most popular and frequently requested recipes at Perth Clinic and also some of Mark’s favourites. There are everyday type meals including vegetarian and special dietary requirements through to the more decadent meals for a special occasion dinner party.
All proceeds from the sale of a Healthy Mind Healthy Body will support the Private Mental Heath Consumer Carer Network and will be used to further the work they do in private mental health.
Price: $16.50 (inc GST)
plus $6.95 postage and handling within Australia
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An End to Panic
Breakthrough Techniques for Overcoming Panic Disorder.
Second Edition.
Elke Zuercher-White, Ph.D.
A full-blown panic attack can be terrifying - whether it lasts only a few minutes or returns in waves over an hour or longer. Suddenly, unexpectedly, you're fighting for breath. Your heart pounds or races, you feel dizzy or faint, or you experience flashes of hot and cold. You feel a sense of unreality, of slipping out of control…
The good news is that you can learn to cope with and overcome panic attacks. An End to Panic brings together in-depth coverage of the state-of-the-art treatment strategies, using a supportive, interactive format that lets you move forward with confidence, one step at a time.
You'll learn how the physiology of your panic works, and then master the skill of breathing retraining - a technique for severing the connection between panic and hyperventilation. You'll go on to target catastrophic thinking, learn how to take charge of your fear-fuelling thoughts, and follow step-by-step instructions for learning "Interoceptive Desensitisation," a new a proven technique that allows you to feel the symptoms of panic and overcome the fear associated with them.
With the physical symptoms of panic under control, you'll go on to learn skills for challenging and mastering fearful situations and coping with stress and conflict in your life. Final sections offer concrete strategies for avoiding relapse and beginning to really enjoy life.
Price: $36.00 (inc GST)
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Beating the Blues
a self-help approach to overcoming depression
Susan Tanner and Jillian Ball
Beating the Blues introduces a step-by-step programme for overcoming depression, enabling you to break the lethargy circuit and conquer feelings of hopelessness, persistent bouts of jealousy, loneliness and the suicidal impulse.
Susan Tanner and Jillian Ball offer strategies for shedding 'faulty thinking habits.' Using questionnaires, self-tests and case studies from their own work, they demonstrate that you can control what you think and therefore how you feel. There is a special chapter for families, "How to live with someone who is depressed" and advice on seeking professional help.
With compassion and candour, Beating the Blues reveals how we can all turn our moods around and use them to change our lives for the better.
Susan Tanner and Jillian Ball are both clinical psychologists. They worked at the Mood Disorders Unit of Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney in 1986 and 1987, successfully treating hundreds of depressed people with the techniques featured in Beating the Blues. They have both been using these techniques since 1980.
Price: $27.50 (inc GST)
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
The clinically proven drug-free treatment for depression
David D. Burns, M.D.
This breakthrough book introduces the principles of Cognitive Therapy, which teach us that by changing the way we think we can alter our moods, deal with emotional problems, and get rid of depression without the use of drugs.
- 10 types of twisted thinking spelled out
- How to boost self-esteem
- How to avoid being a love-addict
- How to handle hostility and criticism
- Ways of defeating guilt
- Overcoming approval addiction
…and more!
"Clear, hard-headed and practical!"
Albert Ellis, Ph.D., Executive Director, Institute of Rational Therapy.
"This is the happiest book on depression I've every seen. It will be stable in my clinical cupboard."
Susan Walen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Towsen University Private Practitioner.
"I will recommend this book to my students, colleagues and patients."
Ari Kiev, M.D., Director, Social Psychiatry, Research Institute, New York City.
Price: $19.95 (inc GST)
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Thriving on Chaos
a revolution in management theory and practice
Tom Peters.
In the modern business world chaos is now the norm. Everywhere and every day managers confront shattering and accelerating change: change paced by constant innovations in computer and telecommunications technologies.
To survive and become superlative in today's economic environment there is an urgent imperative beyond excellence: the flexibility that can - and must - use chaos as the source of market advantage.
With both In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence, Tom Peters defined the parameters of corporate success in books that have sold nearly four million copies around the world.
This is his manifesto for tomorrow's winners. Thriving on Chaos offers forty-five bold prescriptions for change, targeting the five key areas of management - Responsiveness, Innovation, People Power, Leadership and Systems for a World Turned Upside Down - along with hard facts, case histories (of disaster and success) and inspiring examples.
Challenging over one hundred years of tradition, Thriving on Chaos begins a revolution in management theory and practice.
Price: $20.00 (inc GST)
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Living with It
A Survivor's Guide to Panic Attacks
Bev Aisbett.
Panic Attacks - approximately 5% of the population will experience them at some time or another. Seemingly coming from nowhere, the dread of having an attack itself, transforms the ordinary world of everyday life into a nightmare of anxiety and suffering.
Bev Aisbet has survived Panic Syndrome and reinforces the three basic messages:
- You can beat this
- You are not alone
- You will recover
In this refreshing and accessible guide, Bev Aisbett, a survivor of Panic Syndrome, tells us how panic disorders develop and how to recognise the symptoms. With the aid of her inimitable cartoons, she covers topics such as changing negative thought patterns, seeking professional help, and, ultimately, learning skills for recovery.
Living with It provides much needed reassurance and support, leading the way out of the maze of panic with humour and the insight of first-hand experience.
Price: $20.00 (inc GST)
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Prisoners of Belief
Matthew McKay, Ph.D., Patrick Fanning.
Belief is ultimately the key to happiness. Your most deeply held, core beliefs are the bedrock of your personality. They determine your feelings of worth, competence, belonging, loveability, security, trust and self-reliance.
Restricting negative beliefs can imprison you behind bars of conviction. This book shows you how to become a personal scientist, test your core beliefs objectively, subtly shift your more negative convictions, and escape from the prison of belief to a freer, more satisfying life.
"A book that will help people come face to face with core beliefs, examine and challenge them. This new approach has the potential to help many whose lives are darkened by negative beliefs about themselves and the world." - Martha David, Ph.D., Psychologist, Psychiatry Department, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center, Santa Clara, California.
Price: $27.95 (inc GST)
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The Marriage Bed
Thoughts & Feelings Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life
Matthew McKay., Ph.D., Martha Davis., Ph.D., Patrick Fanning.
"Chock full of systematic strategies for the treatment of a wide variety of psychological problems. Eminently readable and helpful for professionals as well as patients."" Aaron T. Beck, M.D.
"An outstanding book. I recommend it without reservation for both general readers and therapists. It stands apart from other similar books in its reliance on scientific data, not fad, hype, or mysticism." Jacqueline B Persons, Ph.D. Director, Center for Cognitive Therapy, Oakland, California; Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco.
"An excellent resource, reference tool, treatment manual, therapy coach, and compendium of techniques." Arthur Freeman, Ed.D., ABPP. Chair, Department of Psychology; Director, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
"One of the most comprehensive and empirically sound guidebooks in all of self-help literature. All of the major problems in living are covered." Cory F Newman, Ph.D., Clinical Director, Center for Cognitive Therapy, University of Pennsylvania.
"For professionals and the public, this wonderful workbook, like a wise teacher, can help make a positive difference."" Thomas F Cash, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Old Dominion University.
"A Jewel of a book: supportive and empathic, short on platitudes and long on practical applications. A must-buy for all cognitive-behavioural therapists." Thomas E Ellis, Psy.D., ABPP. Associate Professor, Department of Behavioural Medicine and Psychiatry, West Virginia University School of Medicine.
Price: $22.95 (inc GST)
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When Anger Hurts
Quieting the Storm Within
Matthew McKay, Ph.D., Peter D. Rogers, Ph.D., Judith McKay, R.N.
Anger has enormous costs. The impulse that felt so right at the moment, so justified, becomes in the quiet hours another source of guilt and regret. What seemed so worthy of blame passes. What remains are the scars, the hurt, and the alienation.
This book is for people who are concerned about their anger, who've grown tired of the emotional and physical toll that anger takes. It's for those who want less anger in their relationships, who seek better ways of expressing needs and solving problems.
Price: $25.95 (inc GST)
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Relax & Stress Reduction
Messages - The Communication Workbook
Matthew McKay, Ph.D., Martha Davis, Ph.D., Patrick Fanning.
Improve your relationships and personal effectiveness by mastering: body language, sexual communication, making contact, assertiveness, negotiation, public speaking, self-disclosure, active listening, influencing others.
Communication is a basic life skill, as important as the skills by which you make your way through school or earn a living. Your ability to communicate largely determines your personal happiness.
Effective communication makes life work. But where can you learn it? Often there's no one to show you how to communicate your wants, your anger, or your secret fears. No one shows you how to fight fair instead of blaming others, how to listen actively, or how to "check out" someone's meaning instead of mind reading.
This book gathers the most essential communication skills into one volume. They are presented in condensed form, but with sufficient examples and exercises so that you can begin practicing the skills you want to acquire. The book tells you what to do about communicating rather than what to think about it. Pure theory is omitted unless it contributes directly to your understanding of a particular communication skill.