mentally ill

Herman Melville's classic novel about a young seaman who joins the crew of a whaling ship commanded by the fanatical Captain Ahab, who is in pursuit of a white whale. Includes introduction, textual and explanatory notes, and chronology.

Translation of an Icelandic novel which follows the life of narrator Paul Olafsson, a young man who tells of his retreat into schizophrenia, his years of hospitalization where he undergoes intense drug therapy, and his eventual release.

In 1963, twelve-year-old Gwen tries to find the path to recovery in a mental ward.

Miriam Toews chronicles her father's lifelong battle with depression and discusses how his illness affected life in the small Mennonite community where they lived.

When his idolized older brother leaves college for a mental health facility and then disappears, seventeen-year-old Chris follows him to the compound of an anti-government militia group and tries to rescue him.

Dr. John Brook lands a research job working with Dr. Robert Hartigan who is conducting electromagnetic brain experiments on a group of prisoners in an attempt to control their criminal behavior, but Brook soon notices the treatments are having an opposite effect, and when two of the patients escape, a killing spree begins.

Two teenagers think they may have found a hero in a schizophrenic boy who thinks he is Icarus.

Bonita desperately wants her family to be normal, despite her younger sister Mary's mental illness, and often finds herself vacillating between loving her sister and hating her.

Explores the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment from antiquity to the present day.