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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Description
Wake up, genius. So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn't released anything since. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout. Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein's unpublished work - including...
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses the classification process for mental illness, examining the difficulty that practioners have of separating normal reactions to everyday stresses from true mental disorders, which involve recurring patterns of symptoms and behaviors.
Publisher
American Psychiatric Association
Pub. Date
1994-
Language
English
Description
This manual, which creates a common language for clinicians involved in the diagnosis of mental disorders, includes concise and specific criteria intended to facilitate an objective assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical settings -- inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison, clinical, private practice, and primary care.
4) So B. it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...
Author
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Most of us take our mental health for granted. But when confronted by mental illness in our family, our friends or ourselves, even the most competent among us is likely to become bewildered. UNDERSTANDING TROUBLED MINDS guides us calmly and authoritatively through the full range of mental illnesses and available treatments. It deals with particular patterns of illness in women, children and the elderly. Stressing the value of partnership between psychiatrists,...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mental illnesses are brain-based conditions that affect emotions, thinking, and behavior. Mental health impacts every part of life and is essential to overall health. Young adults and their mental health have been hit particularly hard during the coronavirus pandemic. With treatment, many people can find relief from their symptoms and live a gratifying life"--
10) Since we fell
Author
Language
English
Description
After Rachel Childs, a former journalist, suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer...
13) Misery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Language
English
Description
What if you woke up with the alarming suspicion that you were being watched' One day in 2003, a patient unlike any other that Dr. Joel Gold had seen before was admitted to his unit at Bellevue Hospital. This man claimed he was being filmed constantly and that his life was being broadcast around the world like The Truman Show'the 1998 film depicting a man who is unknowingly living out his life as the star of a popular soap opera. Over the next few...
Author
Language
English
Description
Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, reveals, the path to legitimacy for "the black sheep of medicine" has been anything but smooth. Here, Dr. Lieberman traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late blooming maturity--beginning after World...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work and to break down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts. In his seminal new book, The Disordered Mind, Kandel draws on a lifetime of pathbreaking research and the work of many...
19) The better brain: overcome anxiety, combat depression, and reduce ADHD and stress with nutrition
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A paradigm-shifting approach to treating mental disorders like anxiety, depression, and ADHD with food and nutrients, by two leading scientists who share their original, groundbreaking research with readers everywhere for the first time, explaining why nutrients improve brain health, and how to use them"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon--capture--is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by forces outside our control. In this book, Dr. Kessler considers...