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Is there no place on earth for me? 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 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 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 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
Finding Alice Finding Alice Melody Carlson Sliding into the Rabbit Hole... Would She Ever Return?On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for ye… OL15109770W
Divided minds 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
Trust Your Eyes Trust Your Eyes Linwood Barclay A thrilling story in which two brothers suddenly find themselves pulled into a frightening vortex of power and murder…Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves… OL16126417W
Just like someone without mental illness only more so 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 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 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
The desperate season The desperate season Michael Blaine After being released from a mental home, Maurice Coleman buys a gun and holds hostage his family in their hunting camp in the Catskill Mountains. Six characters, including Maurice, narrate the bloody… OL17728332W
Where the moon isn't Where the moon isn't Nathan Filer While on vacation with their parents, Matthew Homes and his older brother snuck out in the middle of the night. Only Matthew came home safely. Ten years later, Matthew tells us, he has found a way to… OL17884448W
The Center Cannot Hold The Center Cannot Hold Elyn R. Saks Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California… OL1943090W
Circles around the sun Circles around the sun Molly McCloskey When Molly McCloskey was a young girl, her brother Mike, 14 years her senior, started showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia. Through reading an astonishing archive of letters preserved by her mothe… OL19960670W
Mind without a home 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
Beyond schizophrenia Beyond schizophrenia Marjorie L. Baldwin If someone you know is living and working with schizophrenia, their life is often fraught with challenges and setbacks. Baldwin makes a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculo… OL20027588W
Living with schizophrenia 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 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
Schizophrenics can be good mothers too Schizophrenics can be good mothers too Q. S. Lam Making use of her creative skills and the insights acquired about her mental health condition over twenty-five years, the author's shows us a path towards a fulfilling and creative recovery that is n… OL23437233W
Shattered dreams 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
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