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1) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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"--
3) Elyse
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing Elyse is Catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital.
4) The blind
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Manhattan's most challenging psychiatric institution. She believes if she can't save herself, she'll save someone else. It's this savior complex that serves her well in helping patients battle their inner demons, though it leads Sam down some dark paths and opens her eyes to her own mental turmoil. When Richard, a mysterious patient no other therapist...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There was a huge public outpouring to the recent articles in The New York Times about Family Foundation School, a last-resort institution for troubled teens in upstate New York. It described the near 50% death rate of alumni-including many by suicide-and how the survivors lived with their trauma in the years after leaving the school. A follow-up piece this January covered the shocking facts that came to light through multiple lawsuits and the continuing...
8) Unsane
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear, but is it real or a product of her delusion?
9) The patient
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In a series of online posts, Parker H. ... 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 ... of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case--a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to the hospital at age six. This patient has no known diagnosis ......
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1927, when eighteen-year-old Mary Engle, while working at an institution for mentally disabled women, learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is an inmate, who begs Mary to help her escape, it forces Mary to make a terrible choice with life-altering consquences.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Radical Love is the debut memoir from Zachary Levi, which shares his emotional journey through a lifetime of crippling anxiety and depression to find joy, gratitude, and ultimate purpose. Facing the scars of childhood trauma and the voices in his head that told him he would never be enough, Zac recounts the raw yet honest behind-the-scenes story of his family life, career successes, and the personal disappointments that led him to rock bottom and...
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
Español
Description
El hombre que logro ser invisble: En esta adaptiacion clasica de H.G. Wells, despues de que un hombre (Arturo de Cordova) es falsamente acusado de ser un asesino, es sentenciado a prision por el resto de su vida. Su hermano, un clentifico que lo quiere ayudar a salir de la carcel, le da una pocion para hacerio invisble y asi el poder probar su inocencia. Desatortunadamente la pocion tiene efectos adversos lo cual lo hacen delirar y volverse loco....
Author
Series
Reeve LeClaire novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A riveting new thriller in which the heroine must confront her former tormentor who has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman's experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart...
20) Lovecraft
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In Providence, Rhode Island, a dangerous inmate disappears from a hospital for the insane. At Miskatonic University, a professor slumps into a five-year reverie. In a mysterious and vivid dreamworld, a melancholy man seeks the home of the gods. And in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, polar explorers unearth secrets that reveal a past almost beyond comprehension ... [in graphic novelist I.N.J. Culbard's take on] four classic tales by H.P. Lovecraft....
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