https://pressroom.prlog.org/Bridgeross/ About Bridgeross Communications - Coming soon: My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness by Sandra Yuen MacKay - "remarkably compelling" - Library Journal and The Adolescent Owner's Manual by Dr. David Laing Dawson - A highly readable guide for parents of teens https://www.prlog.org/12984585-trump-is-still-here-and-so-is-the-book-two-years-of-trump-on-the-psychiatrists-couch.html A collection of blog post by Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. David Laing Dawson with such topics as a cornered narcissist is not a pretty sight.Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12915487-for-mental-health-month-discount-on-all-our-top-rated-kindle-schizophrenia-books.html Since 2008, Bridgeross has produced 12 titles exploring schizophrenia. Our titles have been well accepted and highly rated by readers. In honor of mental health month starting May 1, the kindle versions are reduced to under $5.00Mon, 02 May 2022 01:50:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12867814-neuroscientist-with-schizophrenia-pens-new-book.html Best selling author, Erin Hawkes-Emiru, (When Quietness Came A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey with Schizophrenia), has combined her experiences with her clients as a peer support worker with her expertise in neuroscience in her latest book.Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:37:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12867107-understanding-schizophrenia-12-books-by-people-suffering-or-their-family.html Bridgeross Communications, a niche publisher focusing on mental illness, has just released three new books on schizophrenia joining 9 earlier books that have all received significant praise and/or been recommended by mental illness specialistMon, 26 Apr 2021 14:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12863640-new-book-exposes-the-growing-clash-between-science-and-anti-science-in-mental-illness-treatment.html Medicine has made tremendous progress but there is a growing public distrust reflected in the growth of alternative treatments, anti-vax rhetoric, anti-mask protests and anti-psychiatry.Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12861971-grandmother-artist-singer-public-speaker-and-schizophrenic-writes-memoir.html A self described terminal optimist, Jude has become a successful artist, singer, and public speaker. How she accomplished this when many people with schizophrenia have less success is the subject of her book with many examples of her art in color.Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:40:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12763873-courage-to-come-back-award-for-bridgeross-author.html Bridgeross author, Erin Emiru (Hawkes) and the author off When Quietness Came: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey with Schizophrenia has just been named recipient of the Courage to Come Back Award in Mental Health in British Columbia.Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:51:33 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12760429-ad-for-book-on-trump-by-canadian-psychiatrist-rejected-by-pinterest.html Two Years of Trump on the Psychiatrist's Couch by Dr David Laing Dawson is a compilation of blog posts covering events over two years from the time Trump entered the race to the end of 2018Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12756370-canadian-psychiatrist-puts-donald-trump-on-the-couch.html Two Years of Trump on the Psychiatrist's Couch by Canadian psychiatrist Dr David Laing Dawson was written because it is a time that anyone who can see the dangers has a duty to speak up.Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12748049-mental-health-or-mental-illness-there-is-difference.html New book of compiled blog posts by a psychiatrist and an advocate that differentiates between two terms commonly interchanged that are, in fact, different.Wed, 09 Jan 2019 13:49:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12747561-psychiatric-evaluation-of-trump-compilation-of-blogs-by-canadian-psychiatrist.html Two Years of Trump on the psychiatrist's couch provides an analysis of the president by Canadian psychiatrist and author/artist, Dr David Laing DawsonMon, 07 Jan 2019 13:30:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12672475-plight-of-children-of-holocaust-survivors-to-be-discussed-at-torontos-holocaust-education-week-2017.html Dialogue for Descendants is a day long symposium for Children of Holocaust Survivors being held on Sunday, November 5 as part of Holocaust Education Week Toronto as a forum for education, discussion and engagement.Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12592210-trauma-the-strange-heirloom-passed-down-to-children-of-holocaust-survivors-remembrance-week-2016.html Lest we forget, the children of the survivors, both second and third generation, were impacted by the events of their parents' and grandparents' lives. Research shows that trauma can be transmitted from one generation to the next.Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12563384-trauma-the-strange-heirloom-how-trauma-is-transmitted-intergenerationally.html Author and psychotherapist, Pearl Goodman of "When Their Memories Became Mine: Moving Beyond My Parents' Past" will be presenting at the Trauma Talks Conference offered by Women's College Hospital, Toronto.Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12546081-autism-month-resource-for-families-faced-with-an-emerging-physical-or-mental-disability-in-child.html Alicia Hendley who writes with a passion and insight blending her background as a psychologist with her personal experience as a parent has written a book that is an invaluable resource for all parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12540953-understanding-the-failure-to-provide-the-necessities-of-life-ongoing-trial-against-two-parents.html David and Collet Stephan are being criminally prosecuted in Lethbridge, Alberta after their 19 month old died of meningitis and a lung infection. Baby Ezekial was treated with a mixture of natural remedies rather than taken to a medical doctor.Wed, 16 Mar 2016 13:31:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12537493-helping-mental-health-professionals-understand-the-impact-of-mental-illness-on-the-family.html When a close member of a family develops a serious mental illness, the entire family is impacted. Compassionate mental health professionals understand this but, as empathetic as they are, it is often difficult to appreciate the full impact.Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12521586-authorartist-of-my-schizophrenic-life-the-road-to-recovery-from-mental-illness-speaking-engagement.html Sandra Yuen MacKay will be speaking in Vancouver, BC as part of a presentation on courage, strength and community in the face of mental illnessMon, 04 Jan 2016 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12509776-coming-of-age-memoir-contrasting-nazi-work-camps-war-crime-trials-and-life-in-north-america-in-the-60s-and-70s.html A Toronto psychotherapist embodies her parents' past in ways that aren't obvious to her and grows up in an environment she feels at odds with. Her parents' traumas during WW2 impinge on her life but she gains perspective, understanding and hope.Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12507372-summer-camps-nazi-work-camps-the-28-glider-bicycle-war-crime-trials-coming-of-age-memoir.html A Toronto psychotherapist embodies her parents' past in ways that aren't obvious to her and grows up in an environment she feels at odds with. Her parents' traumas during WW2 impinge on her life but she gains perspective, understanding and hope.Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12503309-the-impact-and-transmission-of-trauma-to-the-next-generation-explored-in-new-book.html Much interest has been generated about the impact of trauma and its transmission from generation to generation. In this poignant and humorous coming-of-age memoir, Toronto psychotherapist, Pearl Goodman, writes about just that topic.Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:36:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12502108-family-support-can-make-difference-to-those-with-schizophrenia.html Author Katherine Flannery Dering in a wide ranging and emotional interview on Schizophrenia Community Radio discusses how her family helped their brother with treatment resistant schizophrenia till his death from lung cancer.Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:51:31 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12485106-learning-to-cope-when-autism-comes-to-roost.html Psychologist Alicia Hendley was not expecting or prepared when her second son, Max,was diagnosed with autism. However, she and her family traveled the road from denial to acceptance. Her book is described in an advance review as Raw and honest.Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:16:29 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12470781-dorothea-dix-and-nelly-bly-autographing-book-at-nami-convention-july-7-in-san-francisco.html Or at least Katherine Flannery Dering and her sister Ilene will be signing copies of Shot in the Head. It tells the story of their brother Paul's struggle with treatment resistant schizophrenia and then lung cancer and the efforts to care for him.Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12452804-for-mental-health-month-memoirs-help-with-understanding-the-impact.html What is it like to have a family member, child, parent, or the person themselves suffer with a debilitating serious mental illness. Challenges, Obstacles, Success and Failure explained by those directly impacted.Wed, 06 May 2015 12:36:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12448162-latest-book-release-by-psychiatristauthorplaywright.html A volume of 2 new one-act plays is the latest from the highly acclaimed writer and psychiatrist, David Laing Dawson whose works have been praised by Publishers Weekly, The Boston Globe, Library Journal and the Globe and Mail.Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12442766-he-was-person-with-family-who-loved-him-but-he-was-failed-by-society-and-the-medical-system.html That is the case with many of the mentally ill we see in our cities. In her emotional memoir, Katherine Flannery Dering describes the impact on her extended family of their ill brother, Paul, as they struggled to care for him in life and in death.Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:43:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12376638-indie-book-award-for-shot-in-the-head-sisters-memoir-brothers-struggle.html Bridgeross author, Katherine Flannery Dering, has been awarded the Indie Book of the Day Award for her highly rated book, a bittersweet memoir about life and loss.Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12363720-the-cure-for-schizophrenia-or-the-familys-unique-long-term-challenges-in-the-care-until-recovery.html A presentation at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) conference in Washington DC Sept 4 by Katherine Flannery Dering and Ilene Flannery Wells followed by a speaking tour of Northern California by Katherine Flannery Dering.Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:03:53 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12343885-two-faces-for-national-minority-mental-health-awareness-mother-with-schizophrenia-daughter.html Schizophrenia tore their lives apart when, as a young mother, Sakeenah developed it. But, through it all, there was love which at times was the only thing that made sense to her and her daughter Anika. Their story is a message of hope that inspires.Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12331152-an-opportunity-to-associate-real-people-to-the-the-washington-mental-illness-reform-debate.html Rep Murphy has put forth a bill in Congress called the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013. It has many supporters and detractors and has generated an opposing Bill put forth by Rep Barber. Bridgeross authors can provide context.Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12318665-growing-up-child-of-holocaust-survivors-author-pearl-goodman-to-speak-in-chicago.html Pearl Goodman, author of, Peril From Jackboots Jack Benny, will be addressing other children of Holocaust survivors in a talk sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumMon, 05 May 2014 12:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12314241-mother-with-schizophrenia-daughter-loves-all-that-makes-sense-to-address-cleveland-conference.html Sakeenah Francis and her daughter Anika, the authors of Love's All That Makes Sense, A Mother Daughter Memoir will be the keynote speakers at Recovery Resources on May 1, 2014Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12302943-the-emergence-of-the-recovery-movement-special-book-report.html The mental health community is now more divided than ever with considerable opposition to the biomedical model of illness. This report explores the polarization that threatens the right to be well for people suffering with serious mental illness.Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12298779-mental-illness-presentations-on-recovery-survival-and-peer-support-in-schizophrenia.html Bridgeross Authors of Love's All That Makes Sense: A Mother Daughter Memoir and When Quietness Came: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey with Schizophrenia will speak about their experiences at three upcoming meetings.Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12252276-books-on-schizophrenia-by-canadian-publisher-continue-to-make-an-impact.html As does the publisher. Three of the Bridgeross books have been listed as among the top books on schizophrenia by US psychiatrist, E Fuller Torrey, in his latest edition of the classic Understanding Schizophrenia A Manual For Families.Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12235453-schizophrenia-one-disease-many-perspectives.html Bridgeross specializes in and has available a series of books and videos that explore this disease from a number of different perspectives - that of sufferers, a parent, a spouse and a child. And the authors are available for presentations.Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:50:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12230596-toronto-author-of-acclaimed-holocaust-memoir-pearl-goodman-to-speak-at-holocaust-education-week.html Holocaust Education Week 2013 will in part explore generational narratives about the Holocaust’s effect on the next generations. Pearl Goodman will be presenting two talks on her memoir, Peril, about growing up as a child of survivors in Toronto.Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:49:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12228831-the-lingering-intergenerational-impact-of-the-holocaust-to-be-examined-at-toronto-holocaust-week.html Holocaust Education Week 2013 will in part explore generational narratives about the Holocaust’s effect on the next generations. Pearl Goodman will be presenting two talks on her memoir, Peril, about growing up as a child of survivors in Toronto.Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:51:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12226311-mother-recovered-from-schizophrenia-and-daughter-to-address-psychiatric-conference.html Sakeenah and Anika Francis, authors of All That Makes Sense, will be giving psychiatrists at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Conference in Orlando a peek into the reality of schizophrenia and its impact on the family.Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:45:07 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12217943-wife-of-man-with-schizoprhenia-to-speak-of-challenges-successes-and-recovery.html Marion Gibson whose recent book, Unfaithful Mind, deals with a family's struggles with late onset schizophrenia is the featured speaker at Saturday Live in Victoria, BC on October 5, 2013Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:31:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12214762-schizophrenia-in-focus-presented-by-psychiatristwriterfilm-director-david-laing-dawson.html Dr David Laing Dawson, a psychiatrist and film director of documentaries on serious mental illness as well as an internationally known writer, will be giving a presentation to the Home on the Hill Agency in Richmond Hill on October 1, 2013Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12205638-unfaithful-mind-when-schizophrenia-in-spouse-impacts-family-new-book-describes-the-struggles.html In an advanced review of Unfaithful Mind, one reviewer compared this book to A Beautiful Mind and said the book "is heartbreaking, beautiful, and everything all at once.Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12202597-marvin-ross-publisherauthor-of-schizophrenia-booksdocumentaries-keynote-speaker-at-fame-agm.html Ross, a publisher, writer and Huffington Post Blogger, will give the keynote address at the Family Association For Mental Health Everywhere (FAME) Annual General Meeting September 24, 2013 in Toronto and is their 2013 Hall of FAME HonoreeWed, 04 Sep 2013 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12192198-the-key-to-resiliency-long-term-recovery-in-schizophrenia.html Sakeenah and Anika Francis (a mother with schizophrenia and her daughter) talk about the power of resilience, connections, and hope as keys to long term recovery in mental illness at upcoming Cleveland conference.Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12169942-minority-mental-health-month-need-to-talk-about-mental-illness-in-the-african-american-community.html Having a greater understanding of different ethnicities’ experience with schizophrenia is important for those in the mental health field because culture and race can impact treatment.Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12144805-psychotherapist-confronts-the-trauma-of-her-youth-and-courageously-tackles-the-demon.html Therapist, former teacher and now author, Pearl Goodman, in her poignant memoir, Peril: from Jackboots to Jack Benny, delves into the depths of how trauma works to destroy the resolve to live and how making sense can rebuild that resolve.Tue, 28 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12113090-why-book-on-the-holocaust-or-post-holocaust-as-author-pearl-goodman-describes-it.html Peril: From Jackboots to Jack Benny will be at the London Book Fair April 15-17 and author, Pearl Goodman, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, explains why she wrote the book about her life, and the impact the Holocaust had on her and her...Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12071515-growing-up-with-mother-with-schizophrenia-mother-daughter-memoir.html A Cinderella story in reverse - from a well-respected African American family, college grad and homecoming queen to the ravages of schizophrenia. Despite the mother losing everything and with the trauma on the daughter, love endured.Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:00:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12063524-pearl-goodman-author-of-peril-from-jackboots-to-jack-benny-to-speak-to-holocaust-center-of-florida.html Pearl Goodman whose book is described as a thought-provoking memoir of growing up as the child of Holocaust survivors will be discussing her book and the impact that the Holocaust had on children of survivors on January 27, 2013Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:00:00 GMT