mentally ill

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mentally ill

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

text and criticism
1996
Contains the complete text of the novel about the disastrous power struggle between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution, with writings by the author, literary criticism, excerpts from analogous works, and other reviews and essays.

Hammerfall

2001
Marak, a mad prince whose life is devoted to overthrowing the Ila, his world's eternal dictator, is betrayed by his father and sent on a march with other madmen to the Ila's city of Oburan--and, upon arrival, the Ila assigns him to discover the source of the visions and voices that haunt his world's madmen.

The time machine

and, The invisible man
2007
The Time Machine conveys the time traveler into a far distant future on a slowly dying Earth. In The Invisible Man a young scientist becomes invisible and then insane.

Finding Alice

2003
On the outside, Alice Laxton appears to be a normal college student, but as her senior year becomes more stressful, her schizophrenia progresses, disrupting her life and forcing her to seek experimental treatment.

Starry nights

2003
Guilty over their older brother's drowning and their mother's subsequent breakdown, fourteen-year-old Vida ventures into the occult but it is ten-year-old Jess who meets the ghost who is trying to help them.

The invisible man

2008
Presents H.G. Wells' classic story "The Invisible Man" written in graphic novel format.

I know this much is true

1998
For most of his life Dominick Birdsey has been living in the shadow of his schizophrenic identical twin, Thomas, but when Thomas commits a violent act that affects both their lives, Dominick decides to leave his home and search for his true identity.

Dorothea Dix

social reformer
2003
A biography of the nineteenth-century reformer who devoted much of her life to improving the treatment of the mentally ill in the United States.

The return of Skeleton Man

2008
When Molly and her parents attend a conference at Mohonk Mountain House, Molly begins to fear that she is being watched by the very man who kidnapped and tried to kill them all the previous year.

Sharp

a memoir
2012
In his early twenties, David Fitzpatrick became so consumed by mental illness that he began to cut himself. With therapy he emerged from his self-destructiveness with a knowledge that eventually led to his own emotional resurrection.

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