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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison  
Publisher Comments As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective -- as...
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Girl, Interrupted
by Susanna Kaysen
Publisher Comments In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned...
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Darkness Visible (90 Edition)
by William Styron Publisher Comments A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic...
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A Piece of Cake: A Memoir
by Cupcake Brown Publisher Comments The bestselling memoir of Cupcake Brown's harrowing and inspiring life from the streets to one of the nation's largest law firms Rdazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetimeS ("Washington Post Book World")....
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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
by Pete Earley Publisher Comments Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son- in the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people...
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Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital
by Alex Beam
Powells.com Staff Pick Gracefully Insane is a captivating and entertaining biography of Boston's McLean Hospital, an asylum for the elite established in the early 19th century and still in operation today. Throughout are compelling and often humorous stories about both staff...
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Burn Journals (04 Edition)
by Brent Runyon
Publisher Comments I don't want to get out of bed. I'm so stupid. I did so many things wrong. I don't know what to do. I'm going to be in so much trouble. What am I going to do? I'm completely screwed. In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school...
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Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
by Jennifer Traig Publisher Comments In the bestselling tradition of "Running with Scissors" and "A Girl Named Zippy," Jennifer Traig tells an unforgettable story of youthful obsession....
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Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia
by Kurt Snyder Publisher Comments During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he...
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Awkward: A Detour
by Mary Cappello Publisher Comments "Her writing shines."-The New York Times Book Review Without awkwardness we would not know grace, stability, or balance. Yet no one before Mary Cappello has turned such a penetrating gaze on this misunderstood condition. Fearlessly exploring the...
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Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
by Elizabeth Wurtzel Publisher Comments Painful, poignant, and ultimately triumphant, Prozac Nation is Elizabeth Wurtzel's catharsis--a cry of rage at the chronic depression which has dominated most of her young life. "A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of...
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Wilhelm Reich: Psychoanalyst and Radical Naturalist
by Robert S Corrington Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-285) and index....
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Rising to the Light: A Portrait of Bruno Bettelheim
by Theron Raines Publisher Comments In 1983, after years of trying to persuade Bruno Bettelheim to write his autobiography, Theron Raines, his friend and literary agent, himself undertook to tell the life of the renowned but often controversial child psychologist. With no thought of...
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My Lobotomy (07 Edition)
by Howard Dully Publisher Comments Dully became, at age 12, one of the youngest victims of the infamous ice-pick lobotomy. The story of his courageous journey to understand why this nightmare happened is told here....
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The Camera My Mother Gave Me
by Susanna Kaysen Review "An engrossing examination of pain and the psychology and philosophy used to confront it. Kaysen's lack of conceit and straightforward prose keeps her story clean and absorbing. [She] successfully avoids the self-pity that often seeps into...
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Her Last Death: A Memoir
by Susanna Sonnenberg Publisher Comments Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She might not live. Any...
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Are You Happy?: A Childhood Remembered
by Emily Fox Gordon Publisher Comments "The happiness of childhood is existential, not psychological," writes Emily Fox Gordon. Are You Happy? is an evocation of a peculiar and paradoxical kind of happiness — the happiness of an unhappy child. Gordon was a fatty, an academic failure, a...
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Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir
by Jay Neugeboren Publisher Comments Neugeboren is the first writer to capture what it's like for the millions of families who must cope with a problem for which, most of the time, there is no solution. It's that portrait of a loving relationship that gives Imagining Robert its great power....
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Divine Madness: Ten Stories of Creative Struggle
by Jeffrey A Kottler Publisher Comments Madness can afford the individual certain resources and abilities that are not available to others. The fantasy life, free flight of ideas, distortions of reality, and heightened senses . . . offer a unique perspective on the world. --From the...
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Reasonable People (07 Edition)
by Savarese Publisher Comments A testament to uncommon devotion and common possibilities. "Why would someone adopt a badly abused, nonspeaking, six-year-old from foster care?" So the author was asked at the outset of his adoption-as-a-first-resort adventure. Part love story, part...
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