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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Is there no place on earth for me?	Susan Sheehan	Recounts the lonely, harrowing life of a diagnosed schizophrenic, "Sylvia Frumkin", whose experience has included frequent hospitalizations from childhood on, bouts with insulin comas, electroshock t…	OL12047045W
Jerusalém	Gonçalo M. Tavares	During the early morning hours of a spring day, a variety of individuals, including the suicidal Ernst Spengler, the terminally ill Mylia, and the pathological Hinnerk Obst, are brought together by t…	OL12692208W
The Horizontal Man	Helen Eustis	A dark psychological mystery novel. >The troubles at Hollymount College were far from academic. >Exclusive Hollymount College... never had an unpleasant incident tarnished the reputation of…	OL129280W
The Eden express	Mark Vonnegut	"The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s - a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, …	OL143234W
Divided minds	Pamela Spiro Wagner	Relates the stories of a pair of identical twin sisters, a schizophrenic and a psychiatrist, in an account that traces the deterioration of the favored sister into mental illness, and the other's eme…	OL15835821W
Just like someone without mental illness only more so	Mark Vonnegut	More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his remarkable story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental…	OL16286276W
The split mind	Kevin Lee	The main purpose of this book is to educate other patients with schizophrenia, and their family members or friends. The author has written about his personal experiences, in addition to the scientifi…	OL16441871W
Schizotypy and schizophrenia	Mark F. Lenzenweger	This compelling book argues that all people with schizophrenia share a personality organization known as schizotypy. Presented is a novel framework for understanding schizophrenia through the study o…	OL16981030W
Mind without a home	Kristina Morgan	Experience the inner world of a woman with schizophrenia in this memoir. Have you ever wondered what it is like in the mind of a person with Schizophrenia? How can one survive day after day unable t…	OL19968958W
Living with schizophrenia	Neel Burton	There is a perception that schizophrenia is both uncommon and impossible to treat. In fact, it affects about 650,000 people in the UK, 2.2 million in the US, and some 50 million globally; and, the tr…	OL20823111W
The murmur of stones	Thomas H. Cook	"Brilliant and intense Diana Sears grew up caring for her schizophrenic father, and when her own son, Jason, is diagnosed as suffering from the same afflication, she devotes herself to the quietly he…	OL20882845W
Shattered dreams	Ken Williams	Brady, a homeless alcoholic and a client of social worker, Kyle Walker, is brutally beaten by classmates of Walker's daughter, Cheyenne. The lives of Cheyenne and Mercy, a schizophrenic homeless woma…	OL24163788W
Spider	McGrath, Patrick	This book is ....... meh.	OL2646058W
Adrift	Nicki Adams	"Set in London between 1973 and 1983, 'Adrift' is a compelling true story portraying the way a husband's mental illness tragically destroys a happy marriage. It examines the agonising dilema faced by…	OL27693520W
Trancendental basketball blues	Mike Pemberton	"Jack Henderson, a star basketball player, has it all. Loving mother, Mary Lou, is a great musician, father, Sam, a local hero. But when Jack starts high school, Mary Lou disappears. Diagnosed a para…	OL28956924W
The Moment She Was Gone	Ed McBain	"It's two o'clock in the morning when Andrew Gulliver gets a phone call from his mother, who tells him his twin sister, Annie, is gone. This is not the first time. Ever since she was sixteen, she's b…	OL473153W
The annunciation of Francesca Dunn	Janis Hallowell	A remarkable debut novel that 'dares us to imagine mystery in our lives, in our time?book that sends us away refreshed, with the potential to see the sacramental in the everyday' – Boston GlobeTold f…	OL5727003W
The Minotaur	Ruth Rendell	As soon as Kerstin Kvist arrives at remote, ivy-covered Lydstep Old Hall in Essex, she feels like a character in a gothic novel. A young nurse fresh out of school, Kerstin has been hired for a positi…	OL57530W
The Outsider	Nathaniel Lachenmeyer	The Outsider is an unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at one family's experience with mental illness. In 1978, Charles Lachenmeyer was a happily married professor of sociology who lived in the…	OL5760269W
Riven rock	T. Coraghessan Boyle	The son of a wealthy inventor is incarcerated in a Santa Barbara mental hospital because of a psychosexual disorder that makes him attack women on sight. His male nurse is a womanizing alcoholic, and…	OL892008W