This volume invites you to share a journey of the mind. The volume explores a number of topical areas from the vantage point of different writing genre, including poetry, poetic lyrics, elegies, essays, and short stories. Among the topical areas included are Nature, Places, Innovative Ideas, Love, War, and Mortality Encounters. Why the volume? The answer is both simple and complex. The simple answer is an impulse to share insights and experiences gleaned from a life well-lived - the inherent teacher and mentor in all of us. The complex answer is more nuanced, arising from a life pushed and pulled to share more intimate and private insights and experiences about life. "Gatherings" is the right title for this collection. It is about gathering and building connections! I want readers to find personal meaning in my words, and also to enter my life - to know me better as a person through my writing. To know my experiences! This is connection!

Gatherings: A Collection of Writing Genre

Anthony J. Marsella

Mountain Arbor Press

This volume is a collection of scholarly, editorial, and personal commentaries (Chapters) on "schizophrenia," with special attention directed toward the consequences of "imprecision" in professional and scientific thought and practice because of our failure to accept "schizophrenia" is a construct. A construct is a term, word, concept subject to denotative and connotative semantic abuses and limitations. The reification of a construct in the absence of substantial research confirmation, leads to disorders in our professional and scientific thought and practice, which scholars have termed "epistemopathologies." This is the irony and the tragedy, as "schizophrenia" has acquired widespread acceptance and use as a medical/psychiatric/political diagnostic label. The label serves a mental health industry, but does little to explain or describe the etiology, expressions, and care of individuals assigned the "term." A central issue is the commitment to "reductionism" as a conceptual and methodological pillar for the "mental health industry. Reductionism is an ideology, legitimizing medical solutions for critical widespread social, political, economic, and moral problems. The ideology is apparent in the construct of "schizophrenia," where "utility" arguments for continued medical diagnoses, treatments, and professional roles, deny issues of validity. This volume explores historical, conceptual, and cultural sources of our continuing use and abuse of the construct of "schizophrenia" as a questionable foundation for a mental health industry, perpetuating and tolerating "imprecision."

In Pursuit of "Schizophrenia": Reflections on “Imprecision” in Scientific and Professional Thought and Practice

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

A note from the author: I make no claims for my poems beyond their immediate meanings to me. That is acceptable! I wrote and compiled the poetry volume for myself, especially in the last two to three years of my life as my wife's departure after 50 years of marriage and the filing of a divorce left me alone, in solitude and sorrow. In the rawness and pain of these moments, I was closer to my emotions. I could use them as sources of insight and understanding. The emotions of my new life enriched me, gave me both words and courage. This is what poetry is about for me. When all the pronouncements of academic experts regarding poetry are placed aside, poetry can be understood as a person's life voice--speaking, crying, laughing, wondering--for itself.

Poems Across Time and Place: A Journey of Heart and Mind

Anthony J. Marsella's "The Alphabet of the South" is a fun and informative look at some of the most iconic representations of the American South, including sweet tea, magnolias, and fried green tomatoes. Throughout the book, Marsella uses the framework of the alphabet to provide insight into many traditions, foods, and values that the South holds near and dear. Loaded with facts, concise language, and colorful photography, "The Alphabet of the South" makes a perfect gift for fans of Southern culture.

The Alphabet of the South

Children's Books

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Gatherings: A Collection of Writing Genre

In Pursuit of "Schizophrenia": Reflections on “Imprecision” in Scientific and Professional Thought and Practice

Poems Across Time and Place: A Journey of Heart and Mind

The Alphabet of the South