schizophrenia

Olivia Tithe, a sixteen-year-old self-styled artist, struggles to keep her sanity as she unravels the clues left by the ghost of her first love to figure out how he died.

Discusses schizophrenia and various drug therapies used to treat the disorder.

A teenager recovering from a schizophrenic breakdown is driven to the point of obsession to find his missing younger brother and becomes wrapped up in a romance that may or may not be the real thing.

Provides an introduction and understanding to schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.

Told in three separate voices, dreamy Claire, seventeen, with her complicated home and love life, shy Max, also seventeen, a state senator's son whose parents are too focused on the next election to see his pain, and twenty-one-year-old paranoid schizophrenic Barkley teeter on the brink of destruction.

Seventeen-year-old Lauren has visions of girls her own age who are gone without a trace, but while she tries to understand why they are speaking to her and whether she is next, Lauren has a brush with death and a shocking truth emerges, changing everything.

In this riveting story--part memoir, detective story, and scientific investigation--in the tradition of the story of Henrietta Lacks, Costello recounts how the mental unraveling of her seventeen-year-old son Alex compelled her to look back into family history for clues to his condition. Eventually she tied Alex's descent into hallucinations and months of shoeless wandering on the streets of Los Angeles to his great grandfather's suicide on a New York City railroad track in 1913.

A guide for diagnosed schizophrenics and their families to treatment, rehabilitation, home environment, daily routine, family problems, and other relevant matters.

The author tells the story of his son's long struggle with schizophrenia, which began in childhood and left him severly psychotic by the age of twenty-one, describing his illness, search for a solution, unsuccessful medical treatments, and the new drug Olanzapine which has been the safest, most effective treatment to date.

Authors offer insight into the lives of people with schizophrenia, examining the possible causes of the disorder, describing the treatments available for the disorder, and investigating the social impact of the disease.