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“a k chettiar”

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  • In the Tracks of the Mahatma: The Making of a Documentary

    by A K Chettiar ...
    In 1937, a 26-year-old Indian aboard a ship sailing from New York to Dublin, decided to make a documentary on the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Over the next few years he travelled some 100,000 miles collecting 50,000 feet of film footage, with the expectation and then the outbreak of the Second World War jeopardising his search. The footage had been shot by about a hundred different cameramen over ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Psychological Resilience Treatment Manual

    An Evidence-based Intervention Approach

    by Saralla Chettiar, Ian de Terte ...
    The Psychological Resilience Treatment Manual (PRTM) provides mental health professionals with an evidence-based guide to psychological resilience treatment designed to equip clients with a toolbox of adaptive coping strategies.This intervention treatment manual is for practitioners working with clients to develop resilience and the skills they need to cope with daily challenges, reduce stress ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

  • The Intimate State

    How Emotional Life Became Political in Welfare-State Britain

    by Teri Chettiar ...
    The Intimate State explores how state-supported mental health initiatives made emotional intimacy both politically valued and personally desired during a crucial period of modern British psychiatric and cultural history. Focusing on the transformative decades following World War II, Teri Chettiar narrates the surprising story of how individual emotional wellbeing became conflated with inclusive ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

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  • Psychiatry Disrupted

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  • Therapy Culture:Cultivating Vu

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  • Bioethics

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