mentally ill

The tale of a scientist who discovers how to make his body become invisible, but, when he can't make himself visible again, becomes violently insane.

"Ricky Desmond has been through this all before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn't belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program, a program that the warden claims will not cure him but perfect him, Ricky realizes that he may not be able to wait for his mom a second longer. With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a fellow patient, Ricky needs to escape now."--OCLC.

Chronicles the life of Dorothea Dix, focusing on her efforts to improve health and psychological care for people with mental illnesses.

"Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time...so when his worried parents send him to a school for troubled youth, [he is] actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have 'superpowers'"--Front flap.

Fifteen-year-old Leni copes with a mother who suffers from mental illness.

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.

A semi-autobiographical novel in which the Lebanese author tells how her violent father, an ex-priest who broke his vows, destroyed the life of her brother, finally driving the creative young man insane.

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.