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2) Fear of rain
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A girl living with schizophrenia struggles with terrifying hallucinations as she begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. The only person who believes her is Caleb -a boy she isn't even sure exists.
Author
Publisher
Credo House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The author shares her son Mark Becker's story, from his childhood in Parkersburg, Iowa, through the murder of Ed Thomas and the events that followed, using her family's experiences to demonstrate the need for reform in the existing mental health system.
6) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator’s psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows 20-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis, and from the failures of the higher education system...
9) 55 steps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's workaholic life.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A PETA Director of Campaigns describes how his elder care for his characteristically outlandish mother was shaped by haphazard home renovations, his mother's late-in-life diagnosis with schizophrenia and their community's compassionate support.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The daughter of piano prodigy Norma Herr describes how she and her sister were forced by their mother's violent schizophrenic episodes to discontinue contact with her until the author's debilitating injury changed her sense of the world and enabled a healing reconciliation.
13) The soloist
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A Los Angeles newspaper reporter discovers a homeless musical prodigy while looking for a new article for the paper. The two form a unique friendship that will transform both their lives.
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