mentally ill

In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys--Mr. Furrington, Jesus Christ, and Scowler--to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.

A high-spirited petty criminal fakes mental illness in order to reduce his sentence at the prison work farm.

A rebel named Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to a mental ward and challenges the authority of its dictatorial head nurse.

"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 struggle darker and more dangerous"--OCLC.

The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When they were very young, their parents joined a cult called the MRA, or Moral Rearmament. The family was suddenly uprooted to a cult school in Switzerland and, ultimately, to the Belgian Congo where their father became a surgeon in the war ravaged republic, and ultimately the personal physician to President Mobutu. Shortly after the girls returned to the US for boarding school, Jessie first started to exhibit symptoms of severe bipolar disorder (she would later learn that this ran in the family, a well-kept secret). Jessie's mental illness was passed on to her son, Calen. It wasn't until Calen entered McLean's psychiatric hospital that Jessie herself was diagnosed. Fifteen years and twelve years of sobriety later, Jessie is a stable and productive member of society. Glenn continues to be the major support in Jessie's life.

Contains unabridged editions of two memorials presented to the Illinois legislature in 1846-47 by humanitarian and reformer Dorothea Dix, in which she pleaded her case for the humane care and effective treatment of the mentally ill in Illinois; and includes a selection of newspaper articles she wrote detailing conditions in the jails and poorhouses of Illinois communities.

Presents a first-hand, narrative, account of the author's experiences as a mental health professional at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, recounting his own struggles with childhood phobias and obsessive compulsive disorder, and describing feelings of loss associated with the suicide of his best friend, Henry.

Cuban American homicide detective Jimmy Paz teams up with rookie cop Tito Morales, and psychologist Lorna Wise, in an effort to figure out whether Emmylou Dideroff--a woman who regularly communes with saints and the devil--is responsible for the death of a wealthy Arab oil trader who took a dive from the tenth floor of a Miami hotel after being bashed in the head with a piston rod.