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81) Joker
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Most days, Arthur Fleck is bullied in public as he works as a clown-for-hire, but his slow descent into madness is hurried along by his mother's failing health, their strained connection with the rich Wayne family, and his failed comedy career.
82) Glitterland
Author
Series
Spires story volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ash Winters was once the golden boy of the English literary scene, but mental illness has dragged him into a cycle of self-destruction. A chance meeting with brassy Essex-born Darian Taylor may be the first step Ash needs to rebuild his life--if he's able to let go of the class prejudice and dangerous negative self-image that threatens to drown them both"--
"A deeply emotional romance about heartbreak, hope, and learning to love against all the...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Produced by Northwestern University School of Medicine, one of the largest and most distinguished health care systems in the United States, and by Oscar winner, Ira Wohl, the Clinical Diagnosis and the DSM-5 set of videos offers viewers a unique opportunity to see and hear from real-life patients with actual psychiatric disorders. These volunteer patients are both open and honest about their issues and feelings, lending a human face to psychiatric...
85) Lizzie
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day reimagining of the story of Lizzie Borden, casting her as a shy seventeen-year-old whose blackouts become worse after her father and stepmother try to prevent her from studying to be a chef.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a practicing clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher who created the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which allows us to decipher the brain's inner workings using light. In his first book, Projections, he combines his groundbreaking access to the brain's inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness can reveal about the mind...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days...
89) Fear and lovely
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a close-knit, sometimes stifling New Delhi colony. Though she is surrounded by love, her life is complicated by secrets that she, her mother and her aunt work hard to keep. After suffering a trauma aged nineteen, Mallika loses three days of her memory and slowly spirals into a deep depression. She must find a way out of this abyss, back to herself and those she cares about. But she...
90) Crazywise
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Crazy...or wise? Indigenous cultures address "mental illnesses" quite differently from western societies. Are symptoms a 'calling' to grow or just a 'broken brain'? The documentary CRAZYWISE explores what can be learned from people around the world who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience. During a quarter-century documenting indigenous cultures, human-rights photographer and filmmaker Phil Borges often...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bad Fruit is about the difficult, sometimes abusive, relationship between a mother and daughter. As the boundaries of mother love are crossed, universal themes of family, history, and identity help reveal the shattering effects of generational trauma"--
Author
Series
Sloane Donovan mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Struggling with mental illness and PTSD, ex-cop Sloane Donovan has been pursuing a life of quiet stability--until she finds a close friend murdered. Obsessive demons triggered, she teams up with Wayne Capson, a PI who plays on both sides of the law. The search to find the killer leads them from the city's wealthiest enclave to the darkest corners of street life and prostitution, ultimately connecting the case back to high-ranking members of the force...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
On July 29, 1962, four of Joe Strupp’s relatives were found shot to death in their South Dakota home.
The killer: Joe’s great-uncle, John Bowman.
The victims: Bowman, his wife, and their two teen-age sons.
The result: a shocking tale of simmering tensions, mixed motives, and deadly outcomes that still harbors a mystery–why did it happen?
When Joe first heard about the tragedy 20 years ago, he began a long and intense investigation into the family...
95) Archival quality
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After a mental breakdown that lost her her last job, Cel Walden becomes archivist at, and resident of, the Logan Museum of medical photographs and objects, and home of a ghost seeking justice.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A hiking trip in the woods in upstate New York is out of the comfort zone for sixteen-year-old city girl Callie Velasquez, but she wants to bond with her new friends Lissa and Penelope, not to mention her new boyfriend, Jeremy--however, nothing could have prepared her for the true human darkness that waits for her in the wood.
97) Automatic reload
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Former drone operator Mat, now more machine than man, is obsessed with preventing casualties on his oft-violent missions. Despite his reluctance to work for the shadowy International Access Corporation, Mat accepts a lucrative job protecting one of its packages in transit. But when he discovers the package is Silvia, a woman experimented on against her will and transformed into a monstrous killer, Mat turns on his employers to rescue her. As the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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...
99) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Over thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses--anorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and bipolar disorder. Pathological is the gripping story of what it was like to live with those diagnoses, and the crippling impact each had on her life. It is also a rigorous investigation into the Diagnostic and Statistical...
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