mentally ill

A renowned psycholinguist delves into the confession of a once-dear friend, a rare book collector who is incarcerated in a mental institution for killing his fianc?e, told to him in bits of novels, fables, and historical allusions.

A graphic novel adaptation of the classic H.P. Lovecraft novel in which, in Providence Rhode Island in 1928, investigators try to determine how a dangerously insane inmate disappeared from a private hospital, and their investigation will lead them down a terrifying and macabre path.

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.