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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The last April dancers	Jean Thesman	Sixteen-year-old Cat St. John tries to come to terms with the growing evidence of her father's mental illness and his eventual suicide.	OL114057W
Customers and patrons of the mad-trade	Andrew T. Scull,Jonathan Andrews,Jonathan Andrews	"This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book ke…	OL12397343W
Violence risk	Christopher D. Webster,Stephen J. Hucker,Christopher D. Webster	The decision to release someone from psychiatric hospital, forensic services or prison is often controversial, and forensic psychologists play a key role in assessing the risk of recidivism. In Viole…	OL12643746W
monster	Jonathan Kellerman	*A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk.* Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent r…	OL12729W
Don't Scream	Joan Lowery Nixon	When two new boys come to her school, Jess thinks things are really looking up, but she doesn't know their real identities or if she can trust them.	OL137734W
Dark Love	Michael Blumlein,Martin H. Greenberg,Nancy A. Collins,Basil Cooper,Stephen King,Ramsey Campbell,Kathe Koja,Stuart M. Kaminsky,Edward Gorman,John Lutz,George Chesbro,Wendy Webb,Edward E. Kramer,Douglas E. Winter,Lucy Taylor,Robert Weinberg,John Peyton Cooke,John Shirley,Bob Burden,Richard Laymon,Karl Edward Wagner,David J. Schow,Michael O'Donoghue,Nancy A Collins,Kathryn Ptacek	Contains: [Lunch at the Gotham Café](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781075W/Lunch_at_the_Gotham_Cafe) / Stephen King -- The psycho / Michael O'Donoghue -- Pas de Deux / Kathe Koja -- Bri…	OL14916874W
Madness in the family	Catharine Coleborne	"Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New Sout…	OL15025999W
Broken prey	John Sandford	The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas Davenport knows, is pushed by brain chemistry. Ther…	OL152092W
Psychiatrists-- the men behind Hitler	Thomas Röder	The result of years of research, this highly explosive and well-documented book will reveal the hidden forces behind the Nazi movement during the Third Reich -- which not only inspired the atrocities…	OL15839271W
Hunted past reason	Richard Matheson	A camping trip in northern California exposes long-hidden rivalries and resentments between two old friends with tensions rising as they get farther from civilization, until the hostility erupts into…	OL15855608W
Dorothea Dix	Amy Paulson Herstek	Traces the life and career of a great social reformer, from her strict upbringing, through her years as a teacher and Civil War nurse, to her work as a lobbyist in Congress.	OL16025686W
Responsibility and psychopathy	Luca Malatesti	"Psychopaths have emotional impairments that can be expressed in persistent criminal behavior. UK and US law has traditionally excused disordered individuals for their crimes citing these emotional i…	OL16095295W
Dosed	Kaitlin Bell Barnett	"Over the last two decades, we have seen a dramatic spike in the number of young people taking psychiatric medication--but, despite a heated debate on the issue, we haven't heard directly from the "m…	OL16152544W
I am not sick, I don't need help!	Xavier Francisco Amador	'This book fills a tremendous void ... ' wrote E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., about the first edition of I AM NOT SICK, I Don't Need Help! Ten years later, it still does. Dr. Amador's research on poor insig…	OL17822729W
Into the wasteland	Lesley Choyce	Writing a daily diary after terminating his medications, Dixon Carter attempts to put into words his feelings about the world, from anger to appreciation of beauty, until a tragedy leaves Dixon's str…	OL17884988W
Stained	C. A. Rainfield	A teenaged girl bullied for her port-wine stain must summon her personal strength to survive abduction and horrific abuse at the hands of a deranged killer.	OL17891003W
Church of Marvels	Leslie Parry	"New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, deter…	OL17920771W
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales	Oliver Sacks,Margarida Trias,Jonathan Davis	In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable w…	OL1811898W
Harry and Hortense at Hormone High	Paul Zindel	Two teenagers think they may have found a hero in a schizophrenic boy who thinks he is Icarus.	OL1815155W
I Know This Much Is True	Wally Lamb	E-book extra: "Who Is Wally Lamb?" The author recalls events surrounding the acclaimed publication of I Know This Much Is True. ( Not available in print editions of this work.)Wally Lamb's masterful …	OL1952159W