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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
368 pages
Description
"When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him, to international medical experts who are baffled by him, to the national press who call him Mr. Nobody, everyone wants answers. Who is this man? And what happened to him? Some memories are best forgotten. Neuropsychiatrist...
3) Glass
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Description
When David Dunn, a security guard with superhuman gifts, is sent to a mental institution, he must contend with his archenemy Mr. Glass and Kevin Wendell Crumb, also known as "The Horde" for his multiple personalities, along with a psychiatrist trying to prove they do not have superhuman abilities.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xii, 342 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
When he is committed by his exasperated wife to a psychiatric facility in the 1960s, eccentric alcoholic Frederick descends into the institution's nightmarish rehabilitation processes and despairs of his release, while his remorseful wife struggles to save their family.
5) The patient
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
A young orphaned piano prodigy in 1936 is admitted to a North Carolina mental hospital under the care of a celebrated doctor and receives innovative treatment based on exercise, diet, and art therapies alongside Zelda Fitzgerald.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rose McNulty, a once vibrant and lively beauty, has spent the majority of her adult life confined to a mental hospital in Ireland. When new chief psychiatrist Dr. Grene arrives, he takes a keen interest in Rose. He finds a hidden memoir, written over the course of decades by Rose, that unravels the mystery of her wartime love, incarceration, and the tale of her passionate, yet tortured, life.
10) Rabbit hole
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Whatever the truth is, following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown, Alice is now a long-term patient in an acute psychiatric ward. Though convinced that she doesn't really belong there, she finds companionship with the other patients in the ward despite their challenging and often intimidating issues. So...
11) Mermaid down
Publisher
Archstone Distribution
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mermaid is ripped from the Pacific and subjected to cruel treatment by the men who encounter her. Her tail is removed, and she is locked in a mental home where no one will believe her story.
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Series
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Description
A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's...
Author
Description
My name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me. NOW: Hannah is brought to Belman Psych, told she is suffering from hallucinations and delusions. Hannah knows the truth: she must return to the past and save her sister. Could Jordan, the abnormal psych student who seems to truly care, be the answer she's looking for? 1347: Hannah and her village are starving to death in a brutal winter. Hannah seeks out food and salvation in the baron's castle....
14) The blind
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
As accomplished Manhattan psychologist Sam James gets pulled into the twisted past of a patient no other therapist is willing to treat, she analyzes her life and confronts her own mental turmoil.
15) Poppet
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
378 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior psychiatric nurse, is desperate to protect his charges. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is looking...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
It’s 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She’s immediately in awe of her employer—brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Soon after she’s hired, Mary learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is one of the inmates. Mary remembers Lillian as a beautiful free spirit...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 139 p. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
This book delves inside the mystery of mental disorders - presenting explanations and recollections using the cartoonist's own experiences as both a psychiatric and care nurse and as someone who himself has suffered from depression.
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