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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.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems-from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs. Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider among outsiders) and has forever fought to find a place to...
83) Persona
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A famous actress is stricken with psychosomatic dumbness and is placed under a nurse's care in an isolated house, where the two gradually assume each other's personalities.
84) Chaos theory
Author
Description
"Since Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won't be there very long, she hasn't bothered making friends. What her classmates don't know about her can't be used to hurt her--you know, like it did at her last school. Andy Criddle is not okay. At all. He's had far too much to drink. Again. Which is bad. And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn't resist reaching out. And there's...
85) Betty Blue
Series
Criterion collection volume 1002
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An aspiring novelist and handyman becomes involved with a beautiful but darkly unpredictable woman.
86) Yo te inventé
Author
Publisher
Diamante
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Alex emprende una guerra contra la esquizofrenia. Decide afrontar la batalla diaria de buscar la diferencia entre la verdad y los inventos de su mente."--Page 4 of cover
87) Lilith
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England seems to weave a magical spell on a young man with an equally obscure past. Their relationship deepens leading to a shocking conclusion.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Alvie Fitz is determined to keep pretending to be normal until she is eighteen and can be legally emancipated, but everything changes when she meets Stanley, the only person she has met who is stranger than she is.
89) Asylum
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past."
90) The museum of us
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Sadie is lucky to survive an accident, but it changes her world forever when it reveals her secret life and the mysterious, thrilling boy at the center of it"--
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition.
92) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Description
"Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator's psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows twenty-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin"--
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta S.A
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Hace unos años me rompí por completo. Tanto como para que tuvieran que atarme a la cama de un hospital psiquiátrico para evitar que pudiera hacerme daño. No tengo ni idea de cuándo empezó a formarse mi locura. A lo mejor nací genéticamente predispuesto. A lo mejor fui macerando una depresión al callarme ciertas cosas por no preocupar a los demás. O a lo mejor simplemente hay cerebros que de la noche a la mañana hacen crec y se acabó....
95) Little & Lion
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--
Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her stepbrother Lionel fall in love with the same girl. As Lionel's bipolar...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Romilly Kemp and her eccentric painter father have happy but sheltered lives in a ramshackle mansion in the English countryside. When her father finds fame with a series of children's books starring Romilly as the main character, everything changes: exotic foods appear on the table, her father appears on TV and strangers appear at their door, convinced the books will lead them to a precious prize. But as time passes, Romilly's father becomes increasingly...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Putting up a front and hiding her mental illness from her classmates is going to be the hardest thing high schooler Natalie Cordova has ever done. It's her senior year, and she's just been selected to present her artwork at a prestigious show. With the stress of performing on her shoulders, it doesn't help when Natalie notices a boy who makes her heart leap. And then there's fellow student Ella, who confronts Natalie about her summer car "accident"...
98) Without Tess
Author
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Cohen recalls what it was like growing up with her imaginative but disturbed older sister Tess, and how she is striving to reclaim her own life since Tess died.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.
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