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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at a controversial institution—one as an employee; the other, an inmate. It’s 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She’s immediately in awe of her...
2) Joker
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mentally ill comedian Arthur Fleck is mistreated by the town of Gotham City, which leads to his downward spiral, bringing him face-to-face with his alter-ego known as the Joker.
3) Benny & Joon
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
4) Jane Eyre
Publisher
A and E Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.
5) Magic magic
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Removed from everything she's ever known, a young traveler finds herself surrounded by a group of strangers in the Chilean countryside. With tension rising, she must conquer her deepest fears and darkest secrets before her dreams become reality and her reality... a nightmare.
6) Helen
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
On the outside, Helen has it all, a loving family and a successful career, but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
8) Live to tell
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father -- and possible suspect -- now lies clinging to life in the ICU. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Veteran police detective D. D. Warren is certain of only one thing: There's more to this case than meets the eye." --container.
9) Crazy people
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a stressed-out ad exec proposes a ‘truth in advertising’ scheme, he is promptly shipped off to a mental institution. There he teams up with a kooky blonde and a slew of nutty patients. What happens next is crazy because the public goes absolutely nuts for the new way of advertising.
When a stressed-out ad exec proposes a 'truth in advertising' scheme, he is promptly shipped off to a mental institution. There he teams up with a...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself...
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When an unthinkable tragedy leaves one of the members of the Women's Murder Club in critical condition, the others must fight to keep a deranged man locked away. Meanwhile, a series of ransomless child kidnappings rocks the city and confounds law enforcement.
13) Waterland
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
The author shares affirming, personal insights into the experiences of anxiety in today's world, evocatively describing its painful coherence and absurdities while sharing the stories of sufferers to illustrate anxiety's intellectual history and influence.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her best friend, Agnes, goes into a coma as a result of a game of Truth or Dare, rising senior Hannah's secrets begin to escape while she is locked in a psychiatric hospital.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross's thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients she treats here are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. Each case study presents its own line of inquiry, leading her to seek relevant psychiatric knowledge from diverse sources.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The Invisible man focuses on the powers and bold ventures of a scientist who, after discovering the means to make himself invisible, unleashes a bizarre streak of terror on the inhabitants of an English village. Once a brilliant scientist, Griffin has been gradually consumed by his research. When he finally achieves his goal--becoming completely invisible--the final result is his departure from humanity.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When he is sent to bring his company's CEO home from a "wellness center," a young executive discovers the spa's treatments aren't what they seem.
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious 'wellness center' at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our families and communities. Family members and friends are often the first to realize when someone has a problem, but it is hard to know how to help or where to turn. From understanding depression, bipolar illness and anxiety to eating and traumatic disorders,...
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