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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
448 pages cm
Description
"A compassionate and eye-opening examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma-from the eighteenth century, through America's major wars,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xx, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Francis argues that the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders threatens to destroy what is considered normal and that grief, sorrow, stress, disappointment, and other feelings are part of life, not a psychiatric disease.
Author
Series
Splintered series volume 2
Formats
Description
Life gets complicated once again for teenaged Alyssa when her mother returns home from an asylum and the mysterious Morpheus tempts Alyssa with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland.
45) When we collided
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Can seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivi from herself?
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Formats
Description
"After an entire summer trying to figure out how to go back to being the person she was before her depression and anxiety diagnosis, twelve-year-old Pluto finds out--with the help of the Hayden Planetarium hotline, a new tutor, and a new friend--that there is no old or new Pluto, there's just Pluto, growing up"--
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Series
Description
With Asperger's syndrome, teenager Jacob Hunt is unable to have the same kind of social life other boys his age have. However, like other kids with AS, he has homed in on one particular interest: forensic analysis. He normally shows up to crime scenes and helps solve the case, but this time he is the prime suspect. When a murder leads police to question Jacob, they interpret his AS symptoms as a sign of guilt and cast a very public spotlight on Jacob...
48) Para Elisa
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Desperate for some post-graduation cash, party girl Ana answers a babysitting ad. But after arriving for an interview at the home of Diamantina, she s disturbed by the old woman s increasingly odd behavior and horrified to discover that her charge, Elisa, is not a child but rather a deranged woman her own age. Before Ana can act, she finds herself trapped in the house and made to serve as Elisa s new toy - a toy that like many others before it may...
49) Love & mercy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (approximately 122 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era defining catalog of Wilson's music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.
50) In the blood
Author
Series
Hollows novels (Lisa Unger) volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"On the sharp crags of tiny Tillings Island lies the secret of Izabella Rae Haywood's sixth birthday. That night, her father vanished, taking her voice, and the truth of what really happened along with him"--
Tillings Island, Rhode Island, witnessed the biggest event of Izabella Rae Haywood's life. On her sixth birthday her father left... and took her voice with him. Eight years later in the summer of 1974, Iz and her mother board the ferry to Tillings...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 447 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A "New York Times"-bestselling author reveals that problems in the brain don't start there, and explains how detoxifying and fortifying the body can maximize brain function, alleviate depression, and improve memory--without drugs.
53) Small things
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
37 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Description
In a graphic novel without words, a young boy struggles with anxiety, represented by a swarm of tiny creatures that gnaw at him, leaving him feeling isolated and out of control.
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....
57) Beware that girl
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 25 cm
Description
When a scholarship girl and a wealthy classmate become friends, their bond is tested when a handsome young teacher separately influences the girls in order to further his less-than-admirable interests.
58) Madness
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Released from an inpatient facility after treatment for a suicide attempt, Brooke gradually begins to see hope in her life and meets Derek, a fellow suicide survivor, but as she falls for him, she realizes that Derek may not be in the same mental space she is.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
ix, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The human brain can actually grow--and a bigger brain means better memory, creativity, speed of learning, and ability to concentrate. In Boost Your Brain, Majid Fotuhi, M.D., Ph.D., guides you through the innovative brain fitness program that he has developed for his patients at the NeurExpand Brain Center, an institute dedicated to helping people quickly sharpen their brain performance. You start the program with an assessment of your current brain...
60) Betty blue
Series
Criterion collection volume 1002
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An aspiring novelist and handyman becomes involved with a beautiful but darkly unpredictable woman.
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