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Overdose: Heartbreak and hope in Canada’s opioid crisis

In this urgent and humane look at a devastating epidemic, Perrin draws on behind-the-scenes interviews with those on the frontlines, including undercover police officers, intelligence analysts, border agents, prosecutors, healthcare professionals, Indigenous organizations, activists, and people who use drugs. Not only does he unveil the many complexities of this situation, but he also offers a […]

The suicide magnet: Inside the battle to erect a safety barrier on Toronto’s Bloor Viaduct

The inside story of the grassroots fight to have a suicide barrier erected on Toronto’s “bridge of death.” Most Torontonians have no idea their city once hosted the second most popular suicide magnet in North America, behind the Golden Gate Bridge. Since its completion in 1918, more than four hundred people jumped to their death […]

Managing the myths of health care: Bridging the separations between care cure, control and community

In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to reframing the management and organization of health care. The problem is not management per se but a form of remote-control management detached from the operations yet determined to control them. It reorganizes relentlessly, measures like mad, promotes a heroic form of leadership, favors […]

Trapped by the high: What addiction is and how it changes the brain

Not okay? Okay: A roadmap back from the brink

In Not Okay? Okay. combat veteran and suicide survivor Sheridan Taylor chronicles the anguish and rage he experienced in the darkest depths of despair, and he shares the process and triumph of fighting his way out. After a lifetime enduring pain and discovering love, Sheridan shares his unique perspective on the power of hope and how to heal the […]

The suicidal person: Anew look at a human phenomenon

Konrad Michel, a leading psychiatrist and acclaimed expert, draws on decades of experience to offer necessary new ways of understanding–and preventing–suicide. After one of his first patients died by suicide, Michel devoted himself to researching self-harm. Writing vividly and personally, he recounts more than forty years of working with and learning from suicidal patients. Michel […]

Medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada: Key multidisciplinary perspectives

This book, written both for a Canadian and an international readership, provides a multidisciplinary review of the framework and performance of the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program. In the first five years (2015-2021) of operation, this program delivered voluntary euthanasia and assistance in suicide to over 30,000 Canadian residents, presently representing a 30% […]

Dark night cometh

The stresses Dr. Austin Mardon incurs during his misadventures in Antarctica and the USSR reach a boiling point, setting off a weekend-long psychotic bender that will change his life forever. Now, as a person with schizophrenia, Dr. Mardon must contend with having lost 50 IQ points, the fallout of his professional and personal life, and […]

After the war: Surviving PTSD and changing mental health culture

After serving in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide and civil war, Lieutenant Colonel Stéphane Grenier returned to Canada haunted by his experiences. Facing post-traumatic stress disorder and an archaic establishment, he spent ten years confronting-and changing-the military mental health system from within. Coining the term “Operational Stress Injury” to allow the military to see mental […]

Decolonizing education: Nourishing the learning spirit

Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Chronicling the negative consequences of forced assimilation, racism inherent to colonial systems of education, and the failure of current educational policies for Aboriginal […]

Principles-focused evaluation: The guide

How can programs and organizations ensure they are adhering to core principles—and assess whether doing so is yielding desired results? From evaluation pioneer Michael Quinn Patton, this book introduces the principles-focused evaluation (P-FE) approach and demonstrates its relevance and application in a range of settings. Patton explains why principles matter for program development and evaluation […]

Anxiety, stress & mindfulness: A do-it-yourself guide to wellness

Instead of trying to get rid of anxiety and stress, change your relationship to them. Mindfulness practice grounds us. Our drama-of-the-moment becomes thoughts and feelings that come and go as we navigate back to now. Awareness wakes us up from automatic pilot, and the mental fog begins to lift. Damaging self-talk starts to lose its […]

Suicidal behavior (2nd ed.)

The book is invaluable as a compact how-to reference for clinicians in their daily work and as an educational resource for students and for practice-oriented continuing education. Its reader-friendly structure makes liberal use of tables, boxed clinical examples, and clinical vignettes. The book, which also addresses common obstacles in treating individuals at risk for suicide, […]

Too many people: Contact, disorder, change in an Inuit society, 1822-2015

Too Many People: Contact, Disorder, Change in an Inuit Society, 1822–2015 examines the history of contact between the outside world and a group of Inuit, the Iglulingmiut, living in Canada’s Eastern Arctic. The nature of these encounters and their impact is described and analyzed from 1822 to 2015. Seeking to understand how order was brought […]

How not to kill yourself: A portrait of the suicidal mind

“If you’re going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody who is being honest with themselves knows at least a little bit about the subject. If you lie or if you fudge, the reader will know.” The last […]

How to build and maintain relationships with mental illness

This book outlines tools for building and maintaining relationships for and with people with mental illness by providing some insight and solutions to typical challenges. However, this book will not paraphrase the work of medical professionals, who accurately and scientifically assess mental illness. Instead, this book shows that people should care about mental illness because […]

Dark night cometh

The stresses Dr. Austin Mardon incurs during his misadventures in Antarctica and the USSR reach a boiling point, setting off a weekend-long psychotic bender that will change his life forever. Now, as a person with schizophrenia, Dr. Mardon must contend with having lost 50 IQ points, the fallout of his professional and personal life, and […]

The myth of normal: Trauma, illness & healing in a toxic culture

‘It all starts with waking up… to what our bodies are expressing and our minds are suppressing’ Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on a seemingly unstoppable rise. Nearly 70% of Americans are now on prescription drugs. So what is ‘normal’ when it comes to health? Over four decades […]

Overcoming the neutral zone trap: Hockey’s agents of change.

Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap challenges hockey’s norms, pushes its boundaries, and provides new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The editors of this engaging interdisciplinary collection use the metaphor of the neutral zone trap to explore the ways that hockey’s culture and structures work to exclude marginalized people. The book features […]

The semicolon

A compelling, sensitive picture book that gives voice to the experience of childhood depression. Inspired by the use of the semicolon by mental health advocates around the world, this story will help parents and educators begin conversations with children about big feelings finding hope and building resilience.

Loving someone with suicidal thoughts: What family, friends, and partners can say and do

If you love someone who has suicidal thoughts, you may struggle with profound fear of saying or doing the wrong thing. You desperately want to help, but you’re unsure of where to start. This book can guide you as you support your loved one—without sacrificing your own needs and well-being. You’ll find the answers to […]

Suicide risk assessment and prevention, volume 2

Suicide in Different Cultures Suicide in South Asia Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Madhumitha Balaji Cultural Considerations in Suicide Research and Practice Paola Mendoza-Rivera, Helen Ma, Bruce Bongar, Joyce P. Chu The Roles of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Suicide Stephanie Freitag, Yara Mekawi, Koree S. Badio, Ecclesia V. Holmes, Alix Youngbood, Dorian A. Lamis Suicide Among Indigenous […]

Suicide risk assessment and prevention, volume 1

Models of Suicide Models of Suicide and Their Implications for Suicide Prevention David Lester Neurobiological Approach to the Study of Suicide Kees van Heeringen The Journey Back from Suicide Sylvia Huitson Suicide as Syndemic Chris Caulkins Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide from a Cultural Perspective Teresita Morfín-López Protective Factors in Suicidal Behavior Gerard Hutchinson […]