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Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient, seeks help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin. When the doctor leaves town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows--showing up unexpectedly at the therapist's lakeside retreat. Bob becomes the houseguest that just won't leave.
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Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into...
Author
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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.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...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"In a trance-like state, Albert walks--from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia--all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images. Loosely based on the case history...
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"After Brianna O'Brien takes her own life, Dr. David Spears blames himself. Though he understands suicides can be a tragic occurrence in psychiatric practice, this loss hits him particularly hard. With Brianna, he's convinced he missed crucial warning signs. When David suspects Brianna's friend, Amka Obed--whom he's also been treating virtually--is in crisis, he flies to the remote Arctic community of Utqiagvik, Alaska, only to discover that she has...
8) Side effects
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
9) Halloween
Publisher
Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], p1978
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister. The silent child was incarcerated in the Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of psychiatrist Sam Loomis. Michael's hometown of Haddonfield was slowly beginning to forget the tragic crime. That is until Loomis returns to the town to warn them of Myers' escape from Smith's Grove. With Michael set on killing a group of high school students, Loomis gets the hesitant town sheriff...
Series
Studio 20th Century Fox volume 23
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A fact-based story about a Georgia housewife named Eve, who suffers from multiple personalities. Eve's husband, confused by his wife's behavior seeks help from a psychiatrist. The doctor finds that each of Eve's personalities is aware of the other's existance but none are related. After months of therapy, Eve is purged of her negative selves and is cured.
11) Mad to be normal
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the 1960s, a renegade Scottish psychiatrist courts controversy within his profession for his approach to the field, and for the unique community he creates for his patients to inhabit.
12) Freud
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 350 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A six-part BBC mini-series, filmed in Austria, New York and London. This series examines Freud's complex life, his groundbreaking work and his relationship with his patients. Special features include a newly filmed interview with David Suchet and a gallery of Suchet's personal Freud archive including production photos, press clippings, etc.
13) 55 steps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Solo ella sabe lo que sucedió. Solo yo puedo hacerla hablar. Alicia Berenson, una pintora de éxito, dispara cinco tiros en la cabeza de su marido, y no vuelve a hablar nunca más. Su negativa a emitir palabra alguna convierte una tragedia doméstica en un misterio que atrapa la imaginación de toda Inglaterra. Theo Faber, un ambicioso psicoterapeuta forense obsesionado con el caso, está empeñado en desentrañar el misterio de lo que ocurrió...
15) Carefree
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
She's afraid of marriage--can he help? With the forever magic of Irving Berlin's romantic Change Partners, the dance craze of The Yam and more, the answer is delightfully Yes!
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Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
11 CDs (13hrs. 30min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Pollan elegantly brings together in a single narrative this unruly history, the story of the current resurgence in psychedelic research, and his own fantastic personal adventure with these substances. This is a brand new story about these incredible drugs, which today are demonstrating a remarkable usefulness in treating mental conditions such as PTSD, depression, and end-of-life anxiety.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Groupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
620 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"El pasajero: 1980, Mississippi. Son las tres de la madrugada cuando Bobby Western se sumerge en el mar del golfo de México con su traje de neopreno e ilumina el avión hundido con la linterna de buceo: nueve cuerpos con el cinturón de seguridad aún abrochado. Faltan la caja negra y el décimo pasajero. Pero ¿cómo es posible? Testigo colateral de maquinaciones que solo pueden perjudicarle, Bobby se ve ensombrecido en cuerpo y espíritu por hombres...
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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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"A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions...
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Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"When one of Randi Conway's psychotherapy patients is found dead of a gunshot wound, the investigation is turned over to Lieutenant Anthony Walker. Formerly a New York City cop, Walker now serves on the police force of an affluent community in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He lives among the privileged gentry, where he understands that appearances are often far removed from reality. This certainly proves to be true in the death of Elizabeth Knoebel,...
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