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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses interfere with the ability to think, act and feel. When acutely ill, a person may lose contact with reality. The symptoms are often very distressing for people affected and those who care for them. These Speaking from experience video clips offer first-hand accounts from people who have experienced Schizophrenia. It was produced in partnership with SANE Australia.
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness characterized by incoherent or illogical thoughts, bizarre behaviour and speech, and delusions or hallucinations. Schizophrenia typically begins in young adulthood, and causes can be due to genetics, environment, and psychological and social processes. Delusions are beliefs that usually involve a misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences. Schizophrenia is a treatable illness, like many other types of...
3) Riven rock
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A historical novel based upon the lives of socialite Katherine Dexter, one of the first female graduates of M.I.T., and her husband, Stanley, heir to the McCormick fortune; telling the story of their lives after Stanley was institutionalized at Riven Rock with a psycho-sexual disorder that made him violent toward women.
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Language
English
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"Meet Kevin Hall, brother, son, husband, father, and Olympic and America's Cup sailor. Kevin has an Ivy League degree, a winning smile, and throughout his adult life, he has been engaged in an ongoing battle with a person that doesn't exist to anyone but him: the Director. Kevin suffers from what doctors are beginning to call the "Truman Show" delusion, a form of psychosis named for the 1998 movie, where the main character is trapped as the star of...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dan Mathews knew that his eccentric mother, Perry Lawrence, was outspoken, foul-mouthed, and, at seventy-nine years old, unable to maintain her fiercely independent lifestyle-so he flew her across the country (with a gay man as her escort) to live with him in a dilapidated Victorian townhouse in Portsmouth, Virginia. What he didn't know was that she was schizophrenic. Over the next five years, Dan and Perry built a rollicking life together fueled...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The author tells the story of his son's long struggle with schizophrenia, which began in childhood and left him severly psychotic by the age of twenty-one, describing his illness, search for a solution, unsuccessful medical treatments, and the new drug Olanzapine which has been the safest, most effective treatment to date.
10) Trust your eyes
Author
Language
English
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Description
A schizophrenic, map-obsessed, shut-in who tours the world using a computer program witnesses what he believes to be a murder in downtown New York City and enlists his caretaker brother in an effort to investigate.
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Kerstin Kvist arrives at remote Lydstep Old Hall in Essex to serve as a private nurse for John Cosway, a thirty-nine-year-old man plagued by madness, and finds herself drawn into the bitter fights among the family members and a decades-old mystery.
Publisher
IRB
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Get the Summary of Summary of Robert Kolker's Hidden Valley Road in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them...
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A woman recounts coming of age in the shadow of her father's mental illness in this "candid, unsettling portrait of madness and enduring love" ( Kirkus ). Deborah A. Lott grew up in a Los Angeles suburb in the 1950s, under the sway of her outrageously eccentric father. A lay rabbi who enjoyed dressing up like Little Lord Fauntleroy, he taught her how to have fun. But he also taught her to fear germs, other children, and contamination from the world...
15) Stella Maris
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road comes the second volume of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1972: 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...
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Language
English
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"When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael...
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