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Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shot in Philadelphia on a low budget, this film has been widely acclaimed for its psychological insights into the minds of emotionally disturbed teenagers, as well as the problems that face all adolescents.
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"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This fantastically-twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find his young brother on a dilapidated oil rig. He soon falls...
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Las desventuras del joven investigador llamado Griffin, desde que logra hacerse invisible, gracias a un experimento de su invención, hasta que muere atrapado por la policía y por el doctor Kemp, su antiguo compañero de escuela
The misadventures of the young researcher named Griffin, when he manages to become invisible, thanks to an experiment. Until he dies trapped by the police and by Dr. Kemp, his old schoolmate
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Publisher
Regan Arts
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Uses wilderness therapy to provide a way for parents to effect positive change in their own behavior, stepping out of their comfort zone in order to better understand their mentally ill children.
Series
Criterion collection volume 649
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
352 pages
Description
"When a young girl is found dead in Seryong Lake, a reservoir in a remote South Korean village, the police immediately begin their investigation. At the same time, three men--Yongje, the girl's father, and two security guards at the nearby dam, each of whom has something to hide about the night of her death--find themselves in an elaborate game of cat and mouse as they race to uncover what happened to her, without revealing their own closely guarded...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
276 pages
Description
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated as a saint, who lives in healing temples in Kerala; an...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Woman in White tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
13) Jane Eyre
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
14) Multiple maniacs
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show mounted by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities are topped only by those of their leader: the glammer-than-glam, larger-than-life Divine, out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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"A tender but unflinching portrayal of the bond between two sisters."--Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You. A dazzling novel of two sisters and their emotional journey through love, loyalty, and heartbreak Two sisters--Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing....
16) Home
Publisher
eOne
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a twelve year period of being in and out of hospitals and jail, a mentally ill man attempts to reconnect with his estranged son.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xvi, 265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Beginning in the 1960s in the United States, scores of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat half of the patients that left the hospital. The combined effect was profoundly destructive. Today, among homeless persons, at least one-third are severely mentally ill; among the incarcerated, at least one-tenth....
19) The voices
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Description
After his office crush stands him up for a date, Jerry, who has stopped taking his anti-psychotic medication and takes guidance from his talking cat and dog, must decide to either strive to be normal or go down a much more sinister path.
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Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
304 pages cm
Description
"A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system--a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Lifeepisodes of all time. When family physician Dr. Benjamin Gilmer began working at the Cane Creek clinic in rural North Carolina, he was following in the footsteps of a man with the same last name. His...
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