mentally ill

Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.

Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.

Roger Baxter, new and lonely in New York, does not receive much attention from his mother. He has a difficult time making friends because of a speech impediment and sometimes feels the best thing to do is disappear.

Presents Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby Dick" about Captain Ahab's obsession with finding and killing the great white whale that took off his leg.

A collection of poems centering on the themes of human illness, healing, suffering, and death.

Batman trades himself for the inmates held hostage in Gotham's Arkham Asylum by the Joker, the Mad Hatter, Two-Face, Killer Croc, Clayface, Scarecrow, and Poison Ivy, and faces the possibility of going insane as he battles old enemies.

In "Monkey Mind," Daniel Smith brilliantly articulates what it is like to live with anxiety, defanging the disease with humor, traveling through its demonic layers, evocatively expressing both its painful internal coherence and its absurdities.

Provides advice for family members and loved ones of those diagnosed with both addiction and psychiatric illnesses simultaneously, and discusses treatment approaches, and other related topics.