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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Language
English
Description
Updated throughout and filled with all the latest research, treatment plans, commonly asked questions and more, the bestselling resource on schizophrenia is back-now in its seventh edition. E. Fuller Torrey is a brilliant writer. There is no one writing on psychology today whom I would rather read. - Los Angeles Times Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease and has helped thousands...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Marin Sardy's memoir traces the path of the schizophrenia that runs in her family.
Marin Sardy's memoir traces the path of the schizophrenia that runs in her family. Against the starkly beautiful backdrop of Anchorage, Alaska, where the author grew up, Marin Sardy weaves a fearless account of the shapeless thief--the schizophrenia--that kept her mother immersed in a world of private delusion and later manifested in her brother, ultimately claiming...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Readers Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Lexile measure
270L
Language
English
Description
Kit Ferris, a high school senior, heard voices that no one else heard. When they told her to "go in and out the windows, " she tried, and the school officials thought she was trying to commit suicide.
12) Trust your eyes
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A schizophrenic, map-obsessed, shut-in who tours the world using a computer program witnesses what he believes to be a murder in downtown New York City and enlists his caretaker brother in an effort to investigate.
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
Struggling to understand what happened to his brother years earlier after they both snuck out of the house during the middle of the night, Matthew believes he has found a way to bring his brother back by going off his meds.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations...